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June 28, 2020

Should You Feel Challenged By Your Work?

Being self-employed comes with its own set of challenges: establishing your business, carefully keeping track of your taxes and deduction, generating leads, negotiating your own health insurance… The list goes on and on.

However, you may notice your day-to-day workflow falling into an all-too-predictable routine. You feel fortunate to do what you love for a living, but is it stimulating enough? Do you feel challenged – or rather, should you feel challenged?

June 21, 2020

Write Now, Edit Later

As your caffeine-induced writing binge draws to a close, you shake the 90-words-per-minute keystrokes off your hands and wipe your brows. Phew!

But it’s not over ’till it’s over. In fact, now you’re tasked with the most important (and often the most challenging) part of your writing rendezvous.

Push back your glasses, it’s time to start editing… Or is it?

June 17, 2020

Natural Remedies For Dry Skin

Your outfit’s on point, your hair game is fly. You’re reving up to take a bomb photoshoot of one when all the sudden – oh me, oh my. Red, patchy, flaky skin has made a home out of your face.

We’ve all been there. Dry skin is a common nuisance, but it’s pretty easy to tackle naturally.

June 13, 2020

Establishing a Personable Brand

Take a look at who you’re following online and ask yourself why you follow them. You probably follow a few loved ones, perhaps some colleagues. Maybe some of the accounts you follow are owned by celebrities or brands.

Now, think about why you follow a brand on social media. Naturally, it’s assumed that you like the brand. But do you follow every brand you like online?

What’s so special about the brands you follow? What has encouraged you to pledge your online support to them?

June 12, 2020

Finding Solitude Amidst Chaos by Marina Wang

Marina Wang helps us embrace solitude amidst the chaos of the pandemic.

June 2, 2020

Extinguishing Freelancer Burn Out

Often times after I say that I’m a full-time freelancer, it’s met with wide-eyes and a jaw fully agape.

“But, how do you stay motivated to work,” I’m frequently asked. “How do you keep yourself from procrastinating or just screwing off all day?”

Quite the opposite ends up happening to us freelancers, actually.

April 9, 2020

Sunburn Safety: How to Protect Yourself From Skin Damage and Practice Sun Safety by Camping Cooks

Camping Cooks teaches us everything we need to know to keep our skin safe while exploring the great outdoors.

March 25, 2020

No Toilet Paper On Aisle 20? Beat The System by Lori Brown

Writer Lori Brown flushes our worries away by helping us navigate toilet paper shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 20, 2020

How Journalism Makes You a More Efficient Writer – NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WACKY WRITER!

Efficiency and evidence are at the heart of a journalist’s work. In a world where we’re bombarded with news blaring from our speakers and leaping off our screens, a journalist is entangled in a near-constant tug-o-war for the consumer’s attention.

March 16, 2020

Dear Husband: How to Help Your Wife Deal with Infertility by Deanna Jackson

Deanna Jackson The Wacky Writer offers touching advice to husbands whose wives are undergoing fertility treatments.