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Kathy Poole has had a highly profitable freelance writing business since 1985. As a Writer's Coach, she helps other writers prosper financially, create freely and live passionately.
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Starving Writer Syndrome is a serious, painful malady that can strike anyone who writes or wants to write.
Symptoms:
· Cutting costs by eating ketchup soup (one tablespoon ketchup to one cup hot water)
· Listening to people who insist writers can't prosper financially
· Believing that no sane person would ever pay you for your writing
· Desperate attempts to sell your writing in all the wrong ways and places...because that's "what other writers do"
· Boxes of rejection slips
· Slaving away at a job you don't like while you long to be a full-time writer
· Willingness to write "on spec" (when a client says, "I'll pay you if I like what you write for me.")
· Trusting people who say they will pay you more for their next writing project, if you will just do this first one for next to nothing
· Eagerness to work very hard for very little money
· Thinking that the only way to make a good living as a writer is by penning the next breakthrough novel, selling out or writing schlock
· Frustration because you know you can write but you don't know how to make it pay
· Frequently hearing clients say an immediate and enthusiastic "Yes!" when you quote your fee (because they're relieved it's so low)
Complications:
· Poverty
· Angst
· Pain without gain
· Getting stuck in a boring job...forever
· Grumpiness
· Lack of joy, enthusiasm, pleasure, passion and purpose--not only in your work life but in other areas, too
· Chronic wishful thinking with nothing to show for it
· Finding yourself in an a life you don't want, because you're not doing what you really want to do
· Unfulfilled dreams
Treatment -- The Prosperous Writer Prescription:
· Regular COACHING sessions to help you conquer your fears, overcome your struggles and guide you on the path to prosperity
· Private Online Writer's Retreat to rejuvenate your creativity and support your growing sense of abundance
· Consumption of Prosperous Writer ARTICLES to strengthen and inspire your writing process
· A dose of the "GET UNBLOCKED NOW!" E-WORKSHOP as needed for Writer's Block, creativity jams and similar sticky situations
· One tablet per month of Poole's Prosperous Writer E-NEWSLETTER
How to tell if you're cured:
· You have a renewed zest for life because you're finally following your heart's desire
· You get serious about your writing talent and how to turn it into cash
· You know and use the best ways to make your writing pay
· You stop selling yourself short and settling for less than you deserve
· You join the ranks of other Prosperous Writers who make a good full- or part-time living from their writing (and eat real soup)
· You discover the joy of prospering from something you love to do...writing!
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