Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I showed up for the job. I certainly had a good dose of it by now, knowing my blog posts weren’t up to snuff. I should close the blog, give up my career and walk away from it all. So I gave up. And truthfully, I didn’t really care anymore – I had enough blog posts banked up to cover my ass for a while.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. This means getting up at a decent hour, working for a set amount of time, and taking breaks. So thats a problem for me.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Upon waking up, he can’t remember what he wrote and promptly enlists George, Elaine, and Kramer to decipher his text. Jordan Cooper ( @NotAProBlog ) January 15, 2010 at 1:17 am As a stand-up comic, I could attest to this wholeheartedly. If I had one theme in my writing, I would like to think it’s writing to bring people up.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Admitting that your sleep patterns are all screwed up and that you can’t hack it? Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post once passed out from exhaustion – she broke her cheekbone and ended up with five stitches. Are you up for it? If you’re like many freelancers, you’re probably not sleeping well at all.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

The fact that he is still slightly amazed about his fame makes his posts interesting, in that he brings up questions that I think we should all ask ourselves. I really can’t screw up too badly. It’s fun, but it’s not like I sit at my keyboard, occasionally throwing my arms into the air and squealing, “Wheeeeeee! I’m writing!”

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Men With Pens

JUNE 20, 2010

Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. You’ll hear if your introduction sounds weak or choppy, and you’ll discover whether your wrap-up encourages conversation or just stops it cold. Finding your writing voice is a common problem.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Are you staying up until all hours burning the midnight oil? And you can’t keep it up. The most important part of what happens if you say, “Not right now,&# is that you’ve stuck up for yourself. You’re full up and booked solid because you’re that good. But I have to!” you wail. “I Stick to it, too.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

And I’ve been soaking up advice from sites like Copyblogger and Men with Pens as well as material from some other excellent writers in the blogosphere. No one assigns you experience points or notes when you’ve leveled up. How to Improve Faster Want to speed up? We stare at blank screens. We chew pencils.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

A fool takes in all the lumber of any sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or is at best jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficultly laying his hands upon it. But the only way it happens if you go up there and work on it. Now think about King’s attic mind.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Marc and I realized, though, that this ebook was just one case amongst several where people (often innocently and unwittingly) end up damaging someone else’s life – by trying to help. We spoke out in public about it, of course. This is a reminder for all of us that it’s not just buyer beware – it’s writer be careful, too.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

He sounded like he had a huge stick up his butt. I was riled up. No delicate tippy-tapping on the keyboard for me. She’s got a temper and blows up at absolutely nothing. I did type the email when something similar happened, and it ended up destroying a long running business relationship. Or had he?

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

We need to listen to one another and see if those new ideas have merit, or if they open up any other possible courses of action. It’s up to us to stop allowing others to make decisions for our industry, our careers, and our lives, both as a group and as individuals. We Can Wake Up a Bit It’s not like we have a choice, you know.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

And then you graduated, spent some time in the real world and ended up working in a field that was wildly different from the one you’d studied. That’s what you should be playing up. Of course my on-the-job experience was invaluable too, but the things I picked up at University are embedded in a different way.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

You see, celebrity-stardom aside, Kevin Parent is just a guy who lived through many of the same struggles you’ve had (or are having), from pursuing a creative career to building an audience to despairing you won’t make it to rejoicing you will to contemplating giving it all up. I may as well put it right up front.

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