And Finding Your Writing Sweet Spot Consider what you can learn about writing from an unexpected source — a world-class actor. In a recent review of the new mega-hit movie, Top Gun Maverick, John Nolte writes, “Tom Cruise is a star because he understands stardom in the same way John Wayne and Errol Flynn and Gene…

We were driving over the Mystic River Bridge, when the woman directly behind me reached over the seat and put her hands over my eyes! Author’s note: Unlike other post card stories, this one costed me a fortune in postage and too many post cards. Also, unlike other post card stories, hell… This one is true! — You learn a lot when driving a cab. Sometimes you wish you hadn’t. I drove a Yellow Cab…

How one three-letter word changed his life There’s a great scene in the Rocky II movie where Rocky is facing his own reluctance and lost ambition about the upcoming match against Apollo Creed, especially after Adrian, his wife, is hospitalized. He lacks moral certainty. Morality and the knowledge that you are right, that the course you have…

If you want to make money from your writing, you need an audience. “Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.” — Naval Ravikant If you want to make money from your writing, then you need an audience, individuals who read what you write and potentially are willing to pay for it. This is true whether you…

The campaign against fossil fuels makes as much sense as a campaign against life itself. There’s a war that can kill mankind… slowly, not all at once, just a little bit, day by day, like a slow suicide. It’s the Energy War. One side seeks to eliminate fossil fuels because…

When searching for an audience for your writing, consider this… Dan Koe in his excellent “The 2 Hour Writer” course, gave me the following insight. It’s helping me. Perhaps it will help you. If you are trying to discover who you are really writing for, try this: Write to your past self. Then your present self. Finally, write to your…

If you seek to make an income from your writing, you need to become an independent entrepreneur — a solopreneur. As a profitable writer (or soon to be one), you are in business — the business of presenting and packaging ideas that can enhance the lives of your readers. Allow…

and beyond monetization: what your writing says about you… Monetize Your Writing In the last issue we covered five strategies to help you monetize what you write. The key is to offer specific value to a well-defined audience of folks you choose to serve with your written work. Two more luminaries of online writing worthy of your attention: Dan Koe and Nicolas Cole. Plus, a return engagement from a writer mentioned in our last issue, August Birch.

in a Land of Conformity “Being different in the land of the ordinary or showing your colors in a world of regimentation is difficult but can ultimately be the thing that sets you sufficiently apart to create your own category (of One) at work — with the attendant attention, benefits, pay scale and share of…