October 2007

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In Writing Lab News this month, I’ll be focusing on success. In other words, ways of boosting your writing career. I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a brand new piece on blogging, which will only be seen by subscribers, as well as an article on writing ...

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The Linky Love Army is a blogger friendly paid to blog army. Forgive me for sounding like I’ve got the rose tinted specs on, but I am impressed with the way they work with bloggers. Ok, they’ve got an improbable name, which is probably why most people call them the ...

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This week, I’ve been working on some of the other things that matter to a freelance writer – personal relationships. That’s a fancy way of saying that I spent some time doing touristy things with visiting relatives. But I’ve also been focused on client relationships – and those thougths have ...

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Freelance writing work can be seasonal, which means that there are times when you just don’t have enough work. However, instead of worrying about this, you can use that time productively to help your writing career. Here are a few suggestions for what to do with down time. Tidy Up ...

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Writing keyword fodder isn’t always easy, especially when you’ve written 70 article of a batch of 140 and are losing the will to live. So what do you do when the creative well has run dry?

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This is part 2 of my Mega Link Love Fest: Going Beyond the Blog – How to Extend Your Blog from ProBlogger Blog Tips Blogs and Leveraging the Search Tail from Performancing.com – Helping Bloggers Succeed The Balance Between Handling Business Queries vs. Doing The Actual Work from Freelance Folder ...

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I subscribe to about 150 feeds in my reader, most of them about writing and blogging. But I often fall behind when it comes to sharing the link love. Now, thanks to Firefox and Greasemonkey, I’ve been able to download all my starred items in one go. Some of these ...

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Over on PiggyBankPie, where I do the occasional guest blogging gig, they’re doing an interesting survey over the next week. In What’s Your Blogger TimesheetPatBiz asks: ‘Have you ever counted how much time you spend working on your Blog(s) each week?’ He’s suggested that we keep track of the time ...

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I’ve been visiting Yvonne Russell’s Grow Your Writing Business blog for some months, and there’s always something worth reading there.  Her tagline is ‘For freelance writers who mean business’ so you can see why that appeals to me. The main topics on this blog are writing know how, blogging know ...

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I’ve written another post over on PiggyBankPie. It’s called How To Make Your Blog Work For You Look at any successful blog and you will find that they all have one thing in common – great content. It’s not a question of writing about a particular topic; it’s more a ...

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The key to a successful relationship with an editor is asking the questions that will get you the information you need to deliver the perfect job. I explore some questions that every writer should ask and some of the pitfalls to avoid in The Writing Brief: Questions To Ask. I’d ...

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Write for free? You must be kidding! That’s the reaction that many freelance writers have when it’s suggested that maybe it might be worth writing without getting paid. However, those freelance writers might be missing a trick. Here are a few ways that writing for free might pay off. 1. ...

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It’s time that writers did their bit for the environment. Reduce, reuse, recycle need not only apply to the earth’s resources, but to our own. Applying this motto to writing work will make us more effective writers – and we’ll earn more, too. Here’s how it works. Reduce Say you’ve ...

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How do you create a successful blog? Everyone has their own recipe for success. I outline some of my tips in How To Find Blogging Success, an article I wrote for PiggyBankPie.Over on another of my paid blogging gigs, I’ve written on Spanish Loan Words, Proofreading Tips, Writing For Magazines ...

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I found Web Writing Info when owner Courtney Ramirez dropped by to leave a comment on my blog. Being the curious soul that I am, I immediately popped over to have a look – and I liked what I saw.  The blog design is clean and crisp, making it easy ...

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Freelance writers and ghostwriters often have to write while coping with all sorts of disturbing circumstances. For example, I have worked my way through: an annoying scraping noise as my neighbours rebuilt their wall drilling next to my office when the builders tried to repair something they should have got ...

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I signed up with Sponsored Reviews a long time ago but it’s been so long that I thought I should see how it works again before looking at this paid to blog company. So I logged into my account and added this blog to it. I don’t know if I’ll ...

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Every now and then I write a series of posts on a similar theme. Sometimes that’s because there’s too much to be said to fit it into one post. At other times, it’s because I find related topics at different times. However, it’s not always easy to find these posts ...

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