Marilyn Schwader, Writing Coach

Multiple Streams of Writing Income Part 4: Vision Description and Leveraging Your Writing

The Inspiration Gap As you will see in the coming articles, your vision, with its purpose and mission, have to drive an enormous amount of energy from where you are to where you want to be. I call this the Inspiration Gap. The inspirational gap powers ... Read >

Multiple Streams of Writing Income Part 5: Developing Strategies and Tasks

Developing Your Strategies and Tasks Now that you have a clear vision and you know what mediums you will use your writing in, you can start to develop strategies to drive your exposure and your revenue. Each person's vision is different. As a result, t... Read >

Multiple Streams of Writing Income Part 3: Values, Vision, Purpose, Mission Objectives

Your Values The first component is the core values on which you will be basing your vision. Values speak to your true essence and represent who you are and what you stand for. Experts have pointed out that if a person were to lose one of their core val... Read >

Multiple Streams of Writing Income Part 2: Creating a Clear, Compelling Vision

The first question my clients frequently ask is, "Why do I need to define a vision for what I write? Why can't we just create a strategy?" There are two critical reasons for you to do the vision process. First, let me make this next reality perfectly c... Read >

Multiple Streams of Writing Income Part 1: Creating a Strategy for Your Writing

Creating a strategic plan for your writing is a creative process. As a result, the first thing I want you to do is keep in mind that nothing turns out as you expect it to in the creative process. Creating a strategic plan for your writing is just as impor... Read >

The Gospel of Writing According to Marilyn: Chapters 1 - 2

Chapter 1: Expect to Write, and Write, and Write Some More... The first advice I give my authors is the most simple, and quite often the most difficult. And that is, to expect to write. And I mean write. You can't just talk or read about it. The more y... Read >

Uncovering Hidden Opportunities

Successful businesses recognize a need and fill it. In many cases, the need is obvious. However, some businesses thrive by seeing something that no one else does, jumping on the opportunity, and creating a product or service that appeals to the marketplac... Read >

Creating and Maintaining and Extreme Competitive Business Advantage

Look around you at any successful business. The common denominator is that they found a way to make a profit on a solution to someone's problem or need. Quite simply, a successful information product is a result of a person confronting an obstacle, findin... Read >

Can You Focus Your Energy More Effectively?

One of the most significant aha's I've had came from speaker Nido Qubein. Nido came to the U.S. as a teenager speaking almost no English, had no contacts, and only $50 in his pocket. He has become one of the most successful speakers in America, and has au... Read >

Leveraging: You Can Save Tons of Money!

When I attended a workshop in Atlanta several years ago sponsored by ICF, Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup books fame spoke. He led us through a worksheet exercise detailing our work week. We then placed a dollar value on each of the items. For example, w... Read >

Demystifying Health, Wealth & Happiness --- Writing Your Way to a Radical New Existence

I'm the queen of "Shelf-Help", those bookcases full of material from seminars, workshops, and the Internet that guarantee your success if you just do ________ [fill in the blank]. Oh, I've benefited from most of what I've read and listened to. However, I ... Read >