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A collection of 39 posts

You win some, you lose some

I’ve always had a good work ethic, which I credit to growing up on a farm, where there are real consequences for shirking your work: living plants and creatures within your care will die. Freelancing kind of puts me back into that “dire consequences” mode again. In most jobs,

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Content Writing Made My Dreams Come True

OK, the subject line might exaggerate — but just a little. Although I’ve been an approved writer since January, I just recently started writing for Demand Studios. Before this, I’d always been so busy with my other clients that I only had the chance to give Demand Studios a

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Beginning Freelancing 101, Courtesy of Jenny

So I’ve been meaning to write a post that reviews all those content-hungry sites out there that pay freelance writers: Associated Content, Suite101, Ehow, and a bunch of others I either don’t know about or that will be covered by Jenny shortly. I’ve often heard the question,

Freelance Milestone

I hit a freelance milestone this month. For the first time, I didn’t have to pay myself. It’s not that I haven’t been making money; I never would have made the transition to freelance work if I didn’t think I could make enough money to support

Working is good; not working is better

I knew when I switched to freelance work full-time that motivating myself to work wouldn’t be a problem; I don’t feel relaxed until things are “done,” so I don’t have a tendency to procrastinate. I didn’t foresee the opposite problem: that I’d have trouble stopping.

Coming up for air

Hello? Is anyone here? *looks around* I’m breaking with tradition and posting on a Saturday because I already broke with tradition (and discipline?) and went a whole week without posting. I knew it was starting to get bad when I received emails asking if I was OK, since I

Confession is good for the soul

So, after confessing my lack of progress on my short story a couple nights ago, the words have started flowing again. It helps that, as a freelancer, writing is one way to procrastinate working ;). (Don’t worry, I always make my deadlines). Although, speaking of procrastinating, I did feel bad

The best-laid plans

Before I began freelancing full-time, I had a precise plan for scheduling my time. From 8 – 10 am I would work on my writing; from 10 – 2 work for one of my primary clients; and from 2 – 6 for another primaryclient. On Fridays I’d seek out new opportunities and

Happy Science Fiction Day!

January 2 is Science Fiction Day in honor of Isaac Asimov’s birthday. Confession: I’ve never read anything by Isaac Asimov. But I still couldn’t let this day pass without at least a brief mention of it on my blog. I wrote a short piece about it for

Short, midnight, pre-holiday message

I do freelance work for New Moon Girls, mostly working with the newly launched web community for girls, NewMoonGirls.com. It’s a fully moderated website, which means that a trained adult sees everything before it goes public. I’ve been moderating the site for hours now — thousands upon thousands

On Writing Groups

I just got a call from my mom informing me that another winter storm will be rolling through their neck of the woods precisely when I was planning to be driving home for the holidays. I wanted to wait till Friday to leave because tomorrow night I have my writers’

You're an expert, I'm an expert

Yesterday I went out for coffee with a friend and a young man interested in pursuing a career as an editor. I felt a little nervous about it, wondering what I’d find to say about what I do. Not to mention that, like most people in the world, I’

Tightening up the belt

This morning, I took a shower in relative darkness with my bathroom door wide open. Why? Because I discovered that, on a day like today when the sun is shining through my massive windows, enough light makes it into the bathroom if I leave the door open that I can

Doesn't self employment rock?

The subject line is stolen from a comment on my personal blog, in response to my bit of bragging that I called 438 people on election day to urge them to get out and vote. She was commenting on how it was nice that self-employment allowed me to take a