June 2006

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I had another poem published on RITRO.com today. It’s called Not For Ladies. This was my take on the whole birth experience, so I’m sure many women will relate. Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

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A lot of freelance writers complain about writing for free or for peanuts. Most of the time I agree with them. Writing is a skill and freelance writers should earn a fair rate. But there are times when writing for free is useful. Let me give you an example. Last ...

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Professional bloggers make money for a living. That’s all they do – blog and promote, blog and promote, blog and promote. I have to say the idea has begun to appeal to me, as long as I can write other things as well. Using social bookmarking, Blogitive and other promotional ...

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In How I Get Paid To Blog, I told you about a (then) new way of earning money from your blog. That was back in April, and although I’ve updated the original post, people have been asking me questions about how it works. So here are the answers in one ...

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I’m on a roll with the poetry publishing. Last Friday I had another poem published on RITRO.com. It’s called Does It Matter? This one was inspired by a discussion with a friend on discrimination. Although we’d grown up in different places, we shared a lot of common experiences (thanks to ...

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Yesterday I took some time off from writing and went to the seaside with two friends and our five children. This is one of the pleasures of being a WAHM. This was something we’d planned for a couple of months, deliberately waiting till June so we could be sure of ...

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I was inspired to write this post by gracepub’s recent post, Freelance & Work At Home Success is a TEAM Venture. It got me to thinking about who were the people who had supported me in my writing. Here they are: My mother and my sister have always encouraged me ...

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Some days I’ll do anything to avoid writing. The truth is, after three weeks of constant work on Lifetips and a few other things, my brain is begging for a rest. Of course, when you work at home, there’s always something to be done. So instead of beating myself up ...

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I started a newsletter in April. Why? Because I thought I ought to. All the site building, traffic building material says you should have a way to communicate with visitors to your site. This makes you a real person, builds a relationship and keeps people coming back to the site. ...

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Gracepub has got an interesting questionnaire on her blog about freelance success and obstacles to success. Here are my answers. 1. If you had to start again, what would you do different?I would have started freelancing earlier. Although the time I spent teaching was not wasted, I would have been ...

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I found a good resource the other day. It’s called NewPages.com. The site has links to more than 100 online magazines where writers can get published. These are listed alphabetically and there are separate categories for poetry resources and literary sites. In addition, the site has links to print based ...

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Having decided that I was spending too much time on Guru and Elance for too little return, I started looking around for other sources of job leads. And I didn’t have to look too far to find one. Deborah Ng’s Freelance Writing Jobs blog lists jobs from a number of ...

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As you know, I manage the freelance writing topic for InspiredAuthor.com. When I began to write, I used some of the posts from this blog as a starting point, then extended and hopefully improved them by adding examples. Just as with WritingUp, I was forced to think about what I’ve ...

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I lay in bed this morning, waiting for my daughter to go downstairs with her granny so I could go to my computer. This is not unusual, at least at weekends. Most other days I get up and play, or help her get dressed, or brush her hair or whatever, ...

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I’m on a bit of a roll now. I’ve been doing some writing for Lifetips on fruit, video chat and Spanish (more about that in another post), while trying to keep up with my blogs. The schedule is hectic, partly my own fault for doing some really bad writing late ...

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One of the topics I blog about occasionally is SEO and website development (see the list on my index). I’ve been getting emails this week from a site touting tag and ping for site promotion (who’s going to argue with that strategy?). I was a bit impatient to know what ...

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Just a quick update for you. Last week I wrote about a parenting writing gig that I’d managed to land. I was a bit concerned because I couldn’t be sure I was going to get paid. I don’t know why; maybe it was just that the person I was speaking ...

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