September 2006

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Do other freelance writers have to put up with this? As I type this, someone is drilling in the background (but it might as well be in my head). Someone else is fitting a smoke alarm which is beeping once a minute. I’m sure someone else will come knocking at ...

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Freelance writing is like any other business – you have to set goals to make it a success. When I went freelance a year or so ago, my goal was to make enough money working from home to replace my former salary as a part time lecturer. It was five ...

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While I’m stting at my desk writing, Monex is trading in gold, which apparently has held its value. Bully for them. What I value, especially at the moment, is my brand new ADSL connection. Living with 56k has been difficult, especially when my last writing job required me to download ...

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That’s what freelance writers do. I’ve popped in from time to time and read the debates about the ethics of putting ads on your blogs. But here’s my position. I’m a freelance writer, which means I get paid to write. If someone is going to pay me $5 or more ...

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Freelance writing is like any other business. Any business person (or affiliate marketer) will tell you that the bedrock of the business is in repeats. That’s the people who keep paying year after year without your having to do anything more. That doesn’t work well for freelance writing. But what ...

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It’s amazing what you can do when you have to. I moved into my new house on Wednesday and that’s all it was – a house. Not a stick of furniture. Lucky for me we had the piece of cardboard the fridge came in and two of the most uncomfortable ...

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