Blogs. Flickr. Half a dozen other websites that are free to join, allow you to post your writing (and photographs and other work) and links back to your website. Are they worth it for those of us who make a living off our creativity? […]

If you’re passionate about the topic, when you get up in the morning, it won’t be like going to work. And be focused! Decide what your target is, then hit, and hit it hard […]

I talked to some friends about some of the best aspects of being out of college and some of the less-than-fun stuff. Here are the top five for each–see if you agree.

If you’re a freelancer, you know what a USP is. You probably also know that it can help your business to have one, as well as the businesses of your clients. But how many of us actually have one? Looking around at the websites of some of my fellow writers, I’ve noticed that many of us don’t really have a clearly communicated USP–and we’re writers […]

We may be talking about articles you’ve submitted to magazines, poems, novels or even screenplays. But no matter the form your writing has taken, it’s worth considering what will happen to it in the future […]

Honing the ability to focus and get work done on a tight deadline is a skill set that’ll pay huge dividends throughout the duration of your career.

Blogs cater to many different tastes: some are snarky, others aren’t, it’s a question of taste. You don’t have to read anything that you don’t want to. But reading them at all is a statement.

Rarely, in the few months I’ve been posting to this blog, have I been so motivated to react to an article than to the one recently featured on the Brazen Careerist homepage. The title of the article, Gen Yers lack confidence, behave like idiots, is not only blatantly untrue but offensive enough to merit not […]

Too many graduates or soon-to-be-graduates flock to graduate school simply because they’re unsure of their next move.The only real reason you should be going to graduate school is if the position you want requires a graduate degree.

Trish Ryan is a longtime Urban Muse reader and a fellow Cantabridgian. Her first book, He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, comes out this week, and I couldn’t be more thrilled for her. Trish and I talked about finding a publisher, favorite authors, and more.
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