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By May 1, 2011

It’s taken years, but the world has come round to the type of writing I like to do. When I was in high school and university, my teachers were unimpressed by the brevity of my essays. As a language student (English, French, Spanish) I had to write lots of essays, ...

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By April 27, 2011

One of the benefits I love about freelance writing is that it is such a flexible occupation in every sense. I’m sure freelancing in other career routes can be particularly flexible, but I can’t imagine any other freelancing job whereby you can actually work when and how you want. It ...

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By April 20, 2011

It’s Sunday afternoon.  We had friends stay over last night and they left a few hours ago.  It’s glorious outside. I’ve mowed the lawn, put our new barbecue together (although if my partner is reading this, I helped put the new barbecue together), finished reading the last few chapters of ...

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By April 6, 2011

Things have been particularly busy for me lately and I’ve had to outsource some work to a few different people. The writing wasn’t particularly complex and so I felt comfortable outsourcing it, as the process is generally straightforward – I explain what I need writing to the writer, I get ...

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By February 23, 2011

Before I started writing, I used to dabble in web design and SEO. I would spend hours – and I honestly mean hours – every night going through forums such as those over at Digital Point, learning from others about CSS and the importance of back links, whilst downloading every ...

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By February 20, 2011

First of all, I know it’s not Wednesday, but I’m writing this extra post for various reasons. A few weeks ago, I explained that I’ve started to change the way that I’m working a little, most notably by getting the blog posts that are required for the coming week – ...

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By February 16, 2011

Last week, I started my post by saying that I love both words and knowledge, before going on to talk about my adoration for certain words. Since that post, I’ve been thinking about the knowledge part in more detail. I’m fairly intelligent.  I always performed well at school, like to ...

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By February 9, 2011

I like words.  I like knowledge. I love to know different pieces of information, particularly from history and this ties in with my adoration for words, languages and how most modern day words are the derivatives of much older variations. Whist I’ve always enjoyed writing since I was able to ...

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By January 26, 2011

One of my regular clients places a large order at the end of every month with a deadline for the end of the following month.  Simple and straightforward to understand, I divide the number of words needed for the entire order and spread it out over the coming four weeks, ...

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By January 19, 2011

In my post from last week, ‘How Much Of An Impact Has Your Personal Life Had On Your Freelance Writing Career?‘, one of the comments was by Justin P Lambert. Making some really good points, one thing that Justin mentioned was that he felt getting married and having children made ...

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By January 13, 2011

I’ve been sat here for a while now, thinking of different topics to write about for the blog post this week. Generally speaking, ideas flow pretty freely for me.  I might spend a few minutes contemplating the angle on which to tackle a subject, but I more often than not ...

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By December 22, 2010

My approach to reviewing goals is, compared to a lot of other people – not just freelance writers – relatively relaxed. Whilst I explained what I felt I’ve achieved over the last 12 months in my post ‘How Has 2010 Been For You As A Freelance Writer?‘, I didn’t spend ...

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By November 24, 2010

I was having a midday break earlier on in the week and as usual, I had a look in my inbox, checked out a few blogs and then loaded up the BBC website to read the latest news headlines. I’m the type of person who will skim through half a ...

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By October 13, 2010

Each and every one of us have light bulb moments; times of particular clarity when it seems that you’ve thought of something that will help develop your freelance writing business immensely. For some people, these moments come now and again.  They aren’t something that happen on a weekly basis, but they ...

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By October 6, 2010

As I’m sure most writers do, I love reading. I enjoy becoming immersed in a story and having that feeling where you just want to read one more page, which quickly leads to an entire chapter. I think part of my love for reading is that I have an interest ...

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By September 29, 2010

Two weeks ago I wrote about reflecting on the last 12 months of your freelance writing career. I mentioned that you should find one positive point from the past year and one negative point or something that you didn’t find particularly enjoyable. A day or two after the post was ...

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By August 25, 2010

August has been a busy month for me outside of work.  I spent a week in London visiting family during the second week of the month, followed by a long weekend with friends an hour’s drive away last weekend and then this weekend we’re heading back down to London for 4 ...

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By August 18, 2010

If you follow me on Twitter (or simply realised due to my lack of comments), you’ll be aware that I’ve been away for the past week. We – my girlfriend and I – have a lot of family in and around London and try to get down there as often ...

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