You could argue that I shouldn't be. After all, I don't have to get up and go to work or bring kids to school or anything. I can go to bed and get up when I want. Still, the switch to daylight saving time

How are you doing? Gotten any writing done? Now you've been through all seven steps of this course, and I thought it would be time for a little present. All seven steps collected in one PDF file you can

My writing sucks. Always. I’m never going to get good enough. Nobody will ever want to read my books. Not even if I give them away for free. Never. Ever. You know what? Those are limiting beliefs. Beliefs,

And I did a happy dance :) Here's the full explanation of why being on Steemit helped me to win a t-shirt in a contest against a lot of others. What happens, when you arrive on Steemit as a freshly picked

I can’t write a book… I know nothing. Is that you? That was me years ago. I took an expensive course, went 20% down in salary to take one day off per week to write, and when the teacher told me that I

Our lives are busy. I’ve heard people talking about “killing time”. One of my friends used that expression a lot, and I never understood it. Why would you want to kill time? We have too little of it already.

Yesterday, I showed you how you could resize an image and upload it to Imgur. You can find the post here. Today, we're going to add the link to your profile settings, so the picture will show up. Log into

My first writing tool wasn’t the most comfortable. I was 4, and I’d received a blackboard with chalk as a gift. All around the edges it had letters and numbers. And I copied the letters, ran to my mother

Confession: I'm new to Steemit. I've only been here for a little over two weeks. So I've set up my account recently, and I'm helping a friend do the same. Then I thought, "If she needs an easy-to-follow

Your real work starts today. Not that it will be hard, but you’ll feel like NOW you get started on your book. You might have written books before. Whether you have or not, and whether you outlined or not,

Nefnef barked this morning. Several consecutive times. That made me think of why dogs bark. Yf Yf Yf Yf Yf One of our neighbors have two Pomeranians, and when we pass under their balcony, they "bark"

By now you have a category, but before you start writing you should invest some time in research. The best kind of research is, obviously, to buy a lot of the books you found on top 20 in your category,

Time is money, they say. Time is more valuable than money, my friend told me last night. And she's right. So what could be better for your business and you if you could save time while writing? Use Tools

Tonight, I read a Steemit post that led me to an older Steemit post about getting whale votes. The article ended by showing where you could find whales, and how you could check what they voted for, and

One of the things that surprised me to learn about Steemit was that was should use Markdown coding. I've used Markdown for convenience for years now, and while you can write it in any text editors, such

Welcome to Kindle Office Chair Publishing University, from now on known as KOCPU. Many writers make a lot of money by self-publishing on Amazon's KDP platform. The ebooks are called Kindle books, but people

This morning, while flipping the fried eggs, the siren sounded, and I said, "Oh, fuck!" The clock said 11:05. A drill? I went to our "office" to ask my husband, and on my way I saw

Confession: I've never been the least interested in Bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies... That is, until I joined Steemit. Then I heard that it used the "block chain" (what is that?) and that

Puppies are cute. A lot of dogs are pretty. It's good to be around dogs, and it feels good to have a companion at your feet all the time. And then they can guard the home and keep you safe. So who wouldn't

A big part of the research I do for my stories is finding images. I use the images as inspiration for settings, hair styles, clothing, and anything else that's relevant for my stories. Most of the time,