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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh.

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Don't Be an Introvert Writer | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Your mind, like your body, must be trained to perform in certain ways, and a regimented schedule is a necessity when it comes to earning a living as a freelance writer. Just like plants need wind to grow, writers need some reassurance that they are not just going at it alone each time they sit at the keyboard. Great post.

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Why You Don't Need to Mimic Someone Else's Fame | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It’s fun, but it’s not like I sit at my keyboard, occasionally throwing my arms into the air and squealing, “Wheeeeeee! Not from a ‘Hey, people listen to me, I should sound like I know what I’m talking about’ train of thought; it’d probably be more to do with ‘Oh god, can I really do this? I’m writing!”

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

Men With Pens

From “How to SEO Your Blog Posts&# to “101 Copywriting Tips for the Beginner&# to psychology type e-books packaged as “user guides&# , we find self-help manuals aplenty out there. Take psychology-style self-help books as an example, arguably the single most destructive e-book on the internet today.

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Realistic Freelancing |

Men With Pens

You’re booked solid. You’re full up and booked solid because you’re that good. And yet, meetings get booked for 3:00 p.m. Well, you might lose the odd client, true, but that’s not really what’s important. You have clients clamouring for your attention. You have plenty of time left for that client.

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How to Improve Your Writing | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

This is where bloggers get a head start: if you have a blog, you have a good reason to put fingers to keyboard on a regular basis. It’s all great training. I don’t know who wrote them and why they thought they had the right to sit before a keyboard and litter the Web with, um, substandard writing.

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Three Ways to Start a Revolution | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

For example, if you sell a book for $10, you might sell a workbook for $40. Five years ago, a three-inch thick book was too small for me. Their cost is labor, and in the accounting books, the time you spend writing that ebook carries a cost that you enter in the COGS of your journal. What follows is me thinking into my keyboard.

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