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I’ve been trying to get better about linking to posts I’ve enjoyed. Here are some of the posts I found noteworthy in October: The Importance of Socializing for Freelancers How To Blog a New Niche: 5 Steps How-To Be A Collaborative Blogger How Microblogging Can Help You Nightmare on Writing ...

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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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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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As freelance writers, especially when we’re starting out, we often find ourselves working even longer hours than when we had a 9 to 5 job. I know I did – and still do sometimes. It’s a far cry from the dream of setting your own hours. I found myself working ...

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Write Really Great Keyword Articles is today’s post from Dana Prince’s Writer’s Blog. I read this blog every day and it’s one of my favourites. This post will tell you why. When you get an assignment that involves ten of the same keyword or twenty or more,it can feel like ...

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Inside CRM has a great post on Top 10 Ways to Fire the Client From Hell. Here’s a quote: Clients are the lifeblood of any business. Without them, your venture simply doesn’t exist. On the other hand, some clients are so bad that your business, not to mention your personal ...

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It can be tough to make the decision to become a writer. Take me, for example. I started work as a journalist at 21, but I didn’t realise how much I loved the job until I stopped doing it for a while. Then I couldn’t wait to get back to ...

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Sometimes we can sabotage our freelance writing career goals without even realising it. For instance, if you are constantly worried about the time it will take you to do something, you can spend more time worrying than doing, with the predictable result. You may have set yourself the goal of ...

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I always think that it’s timely to review your career goals occasionally and see which goals still make sense and which need to be updated or discarded. Best of all is seeing which goals you’ve achieved.  Before that, though, you have to learn to set goals for your career. These ...

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A friend asked me today how I handle working with new clients. What she really wanted to know was how I make sure that I get paid to write even when I don’t have a relationship with a client. The answer is simple. I always ask for a deposit. That’s ...

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I admit it. I’m a stats freak , so I was only to happy to install Clicky on this blog so I could see how many people would visit a new freelance writing blog. I have been stunned by the results and I would like to thank the more than ...

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It’s time for another writing blog review. This time, I want to focus on the Writer’s Blog by Dana Prince. Although this blog has only been around for six months or so, it’s packed full of useful information. I keep bumping into Dana in other places (she’s a really friendly ...

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One of the most important aspects of building a freelance writing and ghostwriting business is working out how to keep the work coming in and how to get repeat work. The answer to this dilemma is to become what I call a value added writer. That’s a writer who adds ...

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Sometimes you just have to know when it’s time to take a day off. This is an issue that most work at home moms face, especially during the summer holidays. Most days, I try to work from just after breakfast till just after nap time, leaving several hours in the ...

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There are some weeks when I have so much writing work that it’s hard to know how I will get through it all. It’s at times like those that I realise how important it is to have a plan for handling the writing jobs. To do this successfully, you have ...

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The new version of InspiredAuthor has gone live. I contribute to the site as a topic editor for freelance writing. The person behind the site, Suzanne James is an editor and publisher, as well as a writer, so she knows what she’s talking about. Everything on the site is clear ...

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As a freelance writer, it’s not enough to set up a website and leave it alone. It’s not enough to set up a blog and post sporadically. With both websites and blogs, you need to keep them up to date. Even more important, you need to promote them. Promoting your ...

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