Freelance writers often struggle to find clients and jobs. Fight feelings of failure by understanding why you might not get gigs. Persist.

What is the one thing writers need to succeed? More than reading, more than writing, writers must have optimism to endure rejection.

Currently reading Circe by Madeline Miller. I'll let you know how I responded to it after I finish, but let me know what you thought.

Reading makes us aware of other people’s feelings. It also helps us understand our own. It makes us more empathic and altruistic.

Emojis. GIFs. Videos. Visual communication is changing the world. What will happen to writers and the written word?

My motivation for writing is to release ideas, play with words, and make connections with others. Money should not be the motivation.

Among Franklin's many other projects, he decided he would undertake "the bold and arduous project of arriving at Moral Perfection"

The universals of human experience are reflected in Willa Cather's quote from O Pioneers. "There are only two or three human stories, and th

Journals and diaries are essential "old-fashioned" methods to preserve snippets of souls: the lives, people, and personalities of our past.

William Byrd's Diary 300 year-old diary is filled with good health, good thoughts, and good humor - and coded references to sex.