An Untethered Life Maximizing the ROI on Your Writing Hi Reader, It's easy to write a lot and wind up without a lot to show for it. Plenty of people toil in obscurity only to see their writing fall through the online cracks, unread and unnoticed. So, how can you avoid this fate? How can you ensure that your writing gets read by someone, somewhere? How can you use it to make money, get attention, or gain fulfillment in your personal life? In this edition of An Untethered Life, I'll provide you...

An Untethered Life The Commodification of Writing Hi Reader, There's a war being fought in the online writing space. On one side are the writers - and their allies - doing their best to demonstrate their value as unique, distinguishable providers of a premium product. On the other side are the forces doing everything they can to reduce writing to a commodity. The consequences of the war will be dramatic. If the writers win, we all have an economic future doing what we love to do. If we lose,...

An Untethered Life A Technique for Defeating Writer's Block Hi Reader, Whether you're writing copy and content for money (as I do), writing on a schedule on social media, or creating a newsletter, you're going to find that deadlines and client demands invariably conflict with your internal motivation. You're going to run into periods of time where you don't feel like writing but you've just gotta get stuff down on paper. I'm stuck in one of those (prolonged) stretches as we speak. Unlike my...