The Renegade Writer Blog

Thanks to everyone who filled out my Renegade Writer survey — and congratulations to Colette Martin, who won a free half-hour phone coaching session with yours truly. I really appreciate that so many people took the time out of their busy day to offer their valuable feedback.
I received great feedback from 131 writers, and I [...]

Mike Stelzner over at the Writing White Papers Blog is running the fourth annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers contest. We were thrilled to be in the top 10 last year, and since then we’ve added even more helpful posts — especially on motivation and productivity — as well as interviews with such successful freelancers [...]

Brazen Careerist Penelope Trunk took aim at The 4-Hour Workweek darling Tim Ferriss last week on her blog with a post called “5 Time Management Tricks I Learned From Years of Hating Tim Ferriss.” And she’s not coy in her post. She came into the ring throwing punches and didn’t stop for 700 (or so) [...]

I was enjoying my morning cup of java when my eye caught a headline on CNN.com: “Adult films doing well in bad economy.” It was funny because a few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a fellow writer about subject areas where a freelancer could do well in a flaccid economy, and sex [...]

Many of you are probably too young to remember the bestselling book, How to Make Love to a Man. When I was in high school, a friend and I pooled our money to buy a copy. My mother discovered the book tucked between my mattress and box spring and promptly tossed the book out, so [...]

We’re finding more and more markets that are asking writers to include links in their online articles, create podcasts, write blog posts, and add other interactive media to their work. Here’s a quick list of resources that should help you get started.
• First, Michelle Rafter of the WordCount blog tells us why we should [...]

After a lazy and stagnant summer workwise, I kicked myself in the butt last month and decided to tackle some projects on my to-do list. One of them was finishing the 3-week story idea workshop I wanted to teach through this site. Done!
Next was an idea I’ve had brewing for ages. I’m an incurable Anglophile, [...]

Thanks, everyone, for nominating us as a top writing blog over at Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers blog. For the second year running, we made the top 10! Congrats to all the winners:

Copyblogger: As the undefeated champ, this blog has held the number-one spot for three straight years! The baby of Brian Clark, this [...]

I’m sure a lot of you have seen or heard about a new trend in magazines, asking readers, i.e. nonprofessional writers, to provide all the stories in an issue.
I think we’d better get used to this, since my prediction is this isn’t just going to be a one-off experiment. People are really becoming comfortable with [...]

Career columnist Penelope Trunk wrote an interesting blog post last month about Twitter — specifically about why it’s good to jump into stuff like Twittering and blogging when you have no idea what you’re doing — or even if you don’t “get” it. On a grander scale, I believe in this advice, too. Writing a [...]