by Peggy Bechko
Managing your time. Making time for your writing. Finding time.
Whatever you call it, it can be tricky while juggling kids, relationships, job, whatever else you’re involved in that you can’t really give up or set aside.
Category: Productivity
Staying Fit, Productive & Sane as a Freelance Writer
Found on the interwebs, this clever and helpful article on “having the best freelance writing work day at a shopping mall.” Go on. You know you want to do it. Find out how:
by Pinar Tarhan
Sitcoms of the 80s and 90s depicted shopping malls as teenagers’ haven. No reason it can’t be one of your offices.
Why You Need a Mentor
Extremely valuable advice for anyone embarking on a new career. Yep, even writers…honest!
by Eric Ravenscraft
Having a mentor is a great way to gain experience and knowledge that’s not easy to gain from formal education. Ironically, getting the most out of your mentor doesn’t come with a handbook. So we wrote one.
How to Save for Retirement When You’re a Freelancer or Self-Employed
If certain rumors about the future of Social Security are to be believed, the following is indeed a public service message and important not only to writers but to everybody out there who, you know, makes a buck or two on their own:
by Dan Rafter
It’s not easy saving for retirement when you work a full-time job that provides a steady income every month. But if you work as a freelancer, small business owner or independent contractor? Saving enough for retirement can be even more challenging because your income can vary so much each month.
Larry Brody: TVWriter University Update for 2017
by Larry Brody
Brace yourselves, online learning-about-writing fans, because I’m here to announce some changes in the TVWriter™ Online Workshop, um, thing.
Our various workshops, operating under the collective name of TVWriter University, have been up and running on the web, with occasional forays into the Real World (remember the various Brodystock Summer Intensive Seminars and the Secrets of the Writers Room held at the original Cloud Creek Ranch in Southern California, in Las Vegas, and even in Arkansas?) since 1999 or 2000. (Guess I should keep better records.)
Over the years we’ve altered the formats and added some activities from time to time, and this year the big news can be expressed in one word: