Welcome! I’m John Soares, and I’ve been a freelance writer since the late 1980s, and a full-time freelance writer since I left college teaching in 1994. My two main niches are writing supplements and ancillaries for college textbooks, and writing guidebooks and articles about the outdoors, primarily hiking.
I teach freelance writing workshops in the United States that show you how to:
- Set ambitious yet achievable goals for writing income
- Increase your productivity and quality
- Improve your marketing skills
- Win more assignments
- Think like an editor — and use that to get more work and more money
- Manage your time and achieve peak efficiency
- Make the most of the 80-20 rule: focus on the 20% of clients or activities that bring you 80% of your income
- Take advantage of multiple assignments from the same editor
- End writer’s block — and procrastination
- Determine a good niche for specialization, one that will pay you well
- Maximize your research and networking time on the internet
- Know when you should coauthor — and when you shouldn’t
- Develop habits that will keep your body and mind healthy
I also discuss all of these, and much more, in my book Intelligent Productivity For Freelance Writers: Manage Your Time, Make More Money, and Get More Enjoyment From Life. You can also click on the book cover in the right-hand column.
I share many tips for increasing your writing productivity at the Intelligent Productivity For Freelance Writers blog. I’ll also announce all upcoming freelance writing workshops there, so please go there and subscribe through e-mail or with your RSS reader.
I live in northern California near the border with southern Oregon — near Mount Shasta. My main geographic region for teaching freelance workshops and seminars is the western United States: northern California, southern California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada.
To your success in writing — and in life.
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