Earlier this year, Sonia Simone wrote an awesome post over at Copyblogger, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging.” I’ve taken Sonia’s lessons from that post, tweaked them specifically to online writers, then packaged them neatly into verse. The 7 Sins of Online Writing There are 7 Sins of Writing which are wrapping up the Net, [...] Read more »
There are 3 Types of Author – Which One Are You?
There are as many different types of authors as there are people. Every one of us is housing a different brain, each brewing its own particular brand of brilliance. The type of author you are isn’t about the way you frame your words, or which genre you choose to write in. You might prefer to [...] Read more »
Dear Stephen King
Dear Uncle Stevie, Though I’m specifically putting fingers to keyboard to thank you for the amazing toolkit for wordsmiths that is “On Writing,” I also wanted to give my gratitude for a lifetime filled with your words and worlds. The first book I remember reading was The Hobbit. Not that Grover’s, “There’s a Monster at [...] Read more »
Dreaming of Becoming an Author? You’re Not Alone.
It took us a while to get here. David and I started Collective Inkwell nearly a year ago, though without a clear direction or defined sense of purpose. Like two thrill-seekers without a map, yet thirsty for adventure, we set out with our packs, eager for the open road and curious to see where the [...] Read more »
A New Year, A New Direction, A New Look
You probably noticed our semi-absence over the last few weeks. Though we ran a fresh installment of Available Darkness each Friday, and our multi-part series looking back on our first year, we were ghostwriters in more ways than one. We wrote the entire series at once, then set each piece to schedule while Dave and [...] Read more »
The 10 Biggest Mistakes We Made So You Don’t Have to!
Let’s not mince words – creating a website and starting a business or popular blog are not easy things to accomplish. We’re still perfecting our recipe for success and striving to better ourselves while fine tuning our methods. It would probably have been even more difficult to leap the hurdles had we not had one [...] Read more »
So Where Are We Going?
Client work is an enriching experience. The relationships are rewarding and the content is fun to produce, but it could never compare to those things we build with our own hands, directly from our minds, without a middleman in between. We have an embarrassing amount of projects, from drawing board to final draft. The following [...] Read more »
10 Ways to Pull More From Each of Your Days.
There were plenty of things we did well during our first year, but even more that we needed to do better. We both knew it was paramount that we not take the success gathering like storm clouds in the distance and simply wait for it to pour. We needed to streamline and refine our systems. [...] Read more »
A Future So Bright We Had to Wear Shades.
We re-launched Potty Training Power on July 17, one year to the day from when Writer Dad first went live. We grossed more from our re-launch in the first weekend than we had in the entire six months the product had been previously available. At the same time, Ghostwriter Dad was appearing on the front [...] Read more »
Time to Reboot – Wiping the Board and Starting Over.
Though we had written and released our first niche product and nurtured a site to go along with it that was receiving a regular amount of decent traffic, we had gone months without making a single sale. It was clearly time to take everything we had learned and shine new light on our old product. [...] Read more »
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