March 2008

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When you work at home, it’s easy to get distracted. After all, there’s no boss watching your every move, so why not take a few minutes off to grab a snack or do the laundry? In fact, why not make a couple of phone calls or IM with friends while ...

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As a freelance writer, you sometimes find yourself with a bad client relationship. It’s not that the client is bad; it’s just that you just can’t reach an understanding. You know that things are going wrong because: you thought you understood the brief but the client doesn’t like what you ...

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Earlier this week, I read a post on Freelance Switch about turning clients into friends. In that post, Andy Howard made the point that when you work in an office, you invite clients over for meetings all the time, so why change your habit as a freelancer? I thought it ...

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Want to know what it’s really like to freelance from a tropical island? Check out my guest post on Anywired. It’s called Trouble In Paradise. Here’s a sneak peek: When it rains, it’s no genteel English pitter-patter, but a brash, full bodied downpour which drenches you if you’re unlucky enough ...

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One of the reasons that I like making my living as a web content writer is that I can work from anywhere. It’s a case of have laptop, will travel – who could ask for more? Where do you work and what can you see from your office window?

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A writing project got bumped back to me today (not one I’d written, but it doesn’t matter), and it got me to thinking about how writers deal with criticism. The following lines are taken from How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, and they sum ...

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It’s time for another round up of interesting articles I’ve found on the web. As usual, most of these are to do with the business of freelancing, but there are a few about blogging and promotion. What Is My Worth? is a question that many freelancers ask. Maybe it’s time ...

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A friend asked me the other day what my career plan was. It was a good question. Although I love what I do, and wouldn’t go back to working in an office, in another ten or 15 years, I would like my writing career to look very different. When you ...

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Men with Pens is one of my favorite new blogs. It’s the successor to the Web Content Copywriting blog which I mentioned last year. Run by James Chartrand and Harry McCLeod, this is a writing blog with a difference. These guys really know how to write unique blog posts. It’s ...

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Good planning is the bedrock of a successful freelance writing career. In contrast, running your career in panic mode will leave you overworked and stressed out – and probably earning less than you think. The Panic Mode Scenario When you run your writing career in panic mode, you start to ...

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We’ve all been there. You get a job, work for the money and wait to get paid. And wait … and wait … and wait. Even if you have done the sensible thing and got a portion of your money up front, there’s often no guarantee of when the last ...

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The people who visit and comment on this site (5,000+ of you), come from places all over the world. Most of you are from the US, UK and Canada, but there are also quite a few from the other side of the globe, as the map shows: I appreciate your ...

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