Did you know you can be a professional writer without publishing a book?
Personally, I define writer as anyone who writes. Author is anyone who is paid to write, generally of books. You can be a professional writer but never publish a book.
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Here is the billionth blog about how to start a blog. That might be one of your hang-ups. Everyone has already started a blog and written about everything. How are you going to stand out and be original?
You’re not supposed to do that. Just like Burger King, McDonald’s, Checker’s, and Whataburger haven’t come up with anything original either. They just bring their special thing to the same food.
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One of the things that held me back was not having a system to run my business through. I knew I wanted to write, but I didn’t know how to handle the business part of that. Business should be organized and streamlined. It should be a simple, straightforward process or else you’ll mess up your taxes, lose your files, and the IRS will arrest you. At least that’s how it was in my head.
All of the puzzle pieces were scattered, and I’d lost the box so I didn’t know what the picture was supposed to be.
Copywriting and content writing aren’t the same. They serve two purposes.
Content writing is informational and entertaining overall. It’s your blog posts and books, and social media captions.
Copywriting is demonstrative and compelling. It serves to move a reader to make a decision — to buy or opt-in an email list or whatever offer.
It’s persuasive writing.
I quit my job with one potential client set up. It was almost a done deal, a sure thing for the year. Discovery calls done, the scope of work understood, proposal sent and pending. A new virtual assistant, inexperienced, but I had a paying client ready for me.
Or did I?
