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3 Top Factors to Make a Living as a Writer

By Ugur Akinci | January 29, 2021

  Here are the 3 Top Factors to Make a Living as a Writer… Be humble. Be smart. And have a blue-collar attitude towards your work. HUMBLE The chances are you’ll die nobody knowing your name. Accept that you won’t write the GAN (Great American Novel). Accept that you are not a Sallinger, Faulkner, or…

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Is There a Good or Bad Time to Publish a Book?

By Ugur Akinci | January 29, 2021

Is There a Good or Bad Time to Publish a Book? Every day is a good day to publish a book. Why? Because there are just too many variables that we cannot control out there. Trends change. Momentous social events shift the mood and reader interest. What feels like a good and interesting book may look…

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“Can I Make 6-Figure Income as a Copywriter?”

By Ugur Akinci | January 29, 2021

There are so many myths about getting rich through copywriting. I’d like to debunk some of them. First of all, copywriting is not about good creative writing in the sense that poem or novel writing is. It is all about helping your client make money. It’s about selling goods and services. To do that you need to write copy…

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What Are Some Examples of Technical Writing?

By Ugur Akinci | January 12, 2021

My readers and students occasionally ask me what type of documents they would be expected to write as technical writers. I’d like to give you a representative list of the many different types of documents that you might be expected to write once you get a job as a technical writer. Obviously, you would not…

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