If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably edited your Upwork profile more than fifty times and bid on tens, if not hundreds, of projects…only to end up with no clients. — You love being a freelancer, maybe as a side hustle or a full-time job, but the clients do not seem to come your way. Then self-doubt starts to crawl into your mind, telling you that you’re probably not good enough to attract clients as a freelance writer. Others seem to…

Why did you click on this article? What exactly caught your eye here? Is it the number “5”? Is it the term “Compelling Headlines”? Is it the “Top 10%”? You see, something in the headline made you click, and that’s what I want to talk to you about. “Don’t judge a book by its cover”,…but can you not? They say…

George Orwell revealed in his essay ‘Why I Write’ four motives for writing, but he missed one motive that’s crucial to us writers. — Why do we write? What’s the underlying incentive that’s pushing us to write? Whether it’s here on Medium or anywhere else, there’s always a reason behind our writing. George Orwell believed there were four. Who’s George Orwell? If you didn’t know already, Orwell was an unconventional, stimulating novelist and essayist who famously wrote…

Think about it. How often have you read a “best-selling” book and thought, “I expected more from this book.” We tend to confuse best-selling with best-written when they mean different things. It’s in their names, you know. Best sellers are simply books that sell the most. They don’t have to have the best quality of writing. Just find the right publicist, create a catchy title and intriguing headings, and promise to reveal some uncovered secrets, then fill in the gaps.

…but that’s okay. — The sun rises. The sun sets. The tide goes in. The tide goes out. While all these sentences seem like no-brainers, they are completely biased and subjective. How? It’s all about perspective. And we are stuck with language from our own perspective. The sun never sets. It just falls beyond our horizon as the Earth rotates. Even the word “falls” is limited by our perspective. So, if our perspective shapes our language, imagine the things in life that are almost always viewed from one perspective.

And you can use it, too. — Ever wondered how great writers can provoke specific feelings in their readers? Think of that time when you were reading a novel, and at some point, you felt sucked into the story like you were almost part of it… Or maybe that sense of imagining the characters of the story…

If your writing lacks clarity and is uncomfortable to read, don’t crumble it and throw it away. The following six rules for good writing from George Orwell will help you refine your composition and make it fascinating to read. George Orwell is arguably one of the twentieth century’s most unique…

Famous Medium author Jari Roomer recently published The Medium Formula eBook, and it’s a box of treasures. I read it, and I want to share with you what I learned. If you are a writer on Medium (or elsewhere) like I am, and you are finding your way into becoming…

And it looks pretty familiar…and pretty. — Remember the first photo ever of a black hole published in 2019? Well, now we’ve got something quite similar in our own galactic backyard. For many years, we’ve contemplated what lies at the heart of the Milky Way. Researchers have hypothesised that a supermassive black hole by the name of…