August 2006

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Can you really write from anywhere? I’m about to find out. For about four years I’ve been planning a move to the Caribbean. Now the day is finally here – my last day in England for a while. I’m packing my bags and selling my car and tomorrow I board ...

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I’ve been freelancing for the last year and I’ve been reasonably successful for the past three months. This doesn’t mean that I’m getting rich, but that I have managed to replace the salary I was earning as a part-time lecturer. In fact, now that I’ve cleared the overdraft I built ...

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How do you keep writing when you have to travel? Here’s my situation. My freelance writing career is going well. I have been incredibly busy for the past couple of months. All that is great, except that I am trying not to lose my mind while planning a transatlantic move. ...

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Now that I’m a freelance writer, I’m happy doing what I’ve always wanted to do, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy. For the first time in a long time (and I mean LONG), I had a piece of work returned to me for revision. It’s a research job, looking ...

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Website promotion works. I love the sound of this number. 1000. It rolls off the tongue and gladdens the mind. I’ll tell you why. That’s the number of unique visitors to my freelance writing site in July. These are my best figures yet and it’s all been done through free ...

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When I signed up with Lifetips several months ago, I didn’t know what I was letting myself in for. Within a short space of time I had written on fruit, video chat and conversational Spanish. Spanish meshed well with my previous experience and fruit was general knowledge, but to do ...

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