50,000 words in 30 days. Let’s do this. — If you’re not familiar, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it’s a long-held tradition among novelists aiming to crank out 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November. That comes out to 1,667 words per day. As you can probably imagine, for those who choose to…

It doesn’t have to be fancy, it just has to work — To get started as a freelance writer, you only need one thing: a laptop. Okay, two things: a laptop and an internet connection. Once you’re on your laptop with your browser of choice pulled up, Google Chrome being my favorite, where do you go from there? When I started my…

Articles on creative writing to spark your inspiration. — When you major in something like “creative writing” you might get comments such as: “What are you going to do with that?” (0/10 very unoriginal) OR, “Oh, so you’ll never get a real job.” (They say as a “joke,” of course) OR, “Yeah, I thought about doing that too but…

It’s okay to be a little rebellious. — Monday morning began bright and early — without me. I was still snuggled in bed, having slept through a score of alarm clocks (yes, I’m one of those people). When I finally opened my eyes, the day was well on it’s way to 10 o’clock, my early-morning-workout plans dashed and…

The best short stories I read for my creative writing degree. — During a creative writing undergraduate degree, you may end up reading a few short stories. Those stories may produce thoughts such as: Why can’t my writing be this good? How did they DO THAT? Okay, that sentence just made me cry. I’ll never write anything this amazing! And then you’ll…

Resources to help you feel more creative! — On good days, I feel like my creativity is a blooming flower. And on bad days? It’s like mushy blueberries that have been out on the counter for too long and taste like dust. BUT IN REALITY, creativity is a lot like a pickle. Yeah, the long green dudes. Because…

Being creative on demand is TOUGH. — Just be fresh and new and snappy and bold and witty and hip and entertaining! Oh, and have it done by tomorrow. PANIC MODE. When I was in middle school trying to write young adult novels (all of which vaguely resembled Twilight and should never see the light of day)…

So easy!…Right? — Discover that having an online writing business is even POSSIBLE. Get really, really, really excited. Day dream about it. Have actual dreams about it. Think about it pretty much all the time. Journal about it. Annoy all your friends by talking about it constantly. Read about having an online writing…

Frankly, I’m not totally sure. A lot of it was luck. — I’m here to talk about MONEY. Strap in, babes! Or, more specifically, making money. Because we all wish we could be doing more of that. And unfortunately, for the last four months, I wasn’t making ANY of it. No, I don’t count my monthly .30 cent Medium earnings. …