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What’s stopping you tripling your writing income this month?

Answer: nothing.

Do you enjoy writing? I assume that you do, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this blog.

So, since you’re a freelance writer, you enjoy writing, and you want to make money at it, please understand that there is NOTHING preventing you from tripling your writing income this month.

You don’t need anyone’s permission or validation

A recent message from an ezine subscriber prompted me to write this post. This message was similar to dozens of others, it was a typical “what should I do” message.

This kind of message always starts off by giving me a potted bio of the writer, and then goes on to ask me what the writer should do, or in some cases, why what the writer has done isn’t working.

The subtext of the message is always a plea for permission to write, and validation.

I know what prompts these messages of course - it’s fear and a deep lack of confidence.

You’ll grow out of your fear, IF you write

I understand the fear. When I sent off my first book proposal to a book publisher (heck, 30 years ago) I thought I’d have a heart attack from sheer nerves.

Trust me on this: just keep writing and sending your material to the people who can buy it. You’ll grow beyond your fear, much faster than you can imagine. But you must send your writing out to people who can buy it.

In my case, I decided I’d send out a book proposal a month, for a year, and would see what happened. Well, around the third or fourth month after my decision, I received a multi-book contract.

That taught me a big secret about writing: it’s good to be scared, it means you’re doing something new, and if you keep doing it, the rewards will come.

So DO MORE of whatever you choose to write. Your reward is close, as long as you keep writing.

Want to triple your writing income this month? Write MORE.
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You CAN triple your writing income this month. There’s nothing stopping you.

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A few years ago I coached a “blocked” writer.

She put it this way: “Something’s stopping me writing.”

So, being rather more naive then than I am now, I spent a week exchanging emails with her.

After every email message I sent, she’d send a longer message. Since my messages were taking me 20 minutes to write, I knew hers were taking half an hour or longer, so at the rate of three email messages a day, she was writing for 90 minutes a day. At least.

It made me grin - she was BLOCKED, was she?

The thrust of each message she sent in response to suggestions I made was, “Yes, but I already know that, and _________” Off she’d go, on a long explanation of how she knew whatever, and it wouldn’t work for her, because she was BLOCKED.

You don’t know until you know

Finally I lost all patience and called her on what she “knew.”

I told her that until she used what she knew, it wasn’t knowledge, it was information. You may know how to drive a car when you’re 15, because you’ve been watching others do it for years, but until you get behind the wheel and drive, you don’t KNOW at all.

I asked her to complete this sentence, “I know I am blocked, because…” and send me an 800 word essay on what “writer’s block” meant to her.

Don’t get caught in the information trap

There’s a huge amount of information on writing on the Web. However, unless you’re using what you know, you’re wasting precious time.

You can spend hours a day reading and thinking, and writing very little, because there’s always something else you need to “know”, before you can write. However, remember that you won’t know until you know - until you put information to work, so that it becomes knowledge.

You can only put information to work by writing… so write.
And the blocked writer? She wrote the essay, and from then on, kept writing. She’s now working on her third novel, and has just signed a contract for a nonfiction book. All she needed was someone to nudge her in the right direction.

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Then you’ll love next week’s Fab Freelance Writing Eine, which is devoted to helping you to find more time to write.

Here’s an excerpt from the article “Finding Time to Write - Two Strategies”:

Finding time to write isn’t easy, even for full-time writers.

There are always things which eat up writing time. If you’re a part-time freelance writer, it’s your everyday life.
If you’re writing full-time, then it’s all the housekeeping chores which are part of the freelance life - marketing, responding to clients, creating proposals, invoicing, and so on.

I received several questions this week relating to finding time for your writing, so I’ll share my favorite two strategies with you. They work for every writer.

This issue will out on Tuesday.

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