Last night, a client I hadn’t heard from in just over a year emailed me to ask about rates for a new job. This is not the first time this has happened. I get a lot of repeat business from old clients and a few referrals as well. This is a gold mine for the [...] [...more]
I love discovering new freelance writing blogs and one of the blogs I’ve discovered recently is Quiet Rebel Writer. The rebel writer is Amy Lillard, who says: Writers have to be rebels. We have to take the idea of normal and turn it on its head. We have to examine the status quo and the world [...] [...more]
I was chatting to someone on Twitter the other day. One of the topics of conversation was motivating yourself to keep on working. I made the point that when you work for yourself you have to crack your own whip. I immediately began to think about what that actually meant. When you’re a [...] [...more]
You can file this under ‘things I didn’t do when I should have’. I heard about RSSHugger months ago and somehow I never got around to signing up. The premise is simple. For the price of a review on your blog, you get a page where you can promote your RSS feed and your blog. [...] [...more]
Does this ever happen to you? Sometimes you are confidently going along, thinking that everything is under control, when all of a sudden an unwelcome thought snakes its way to the forefront of your consciousness. Although you don’t really want to believe it, you suddenly realise that you have forgotten something important. I have to [...] [...more]
I must admit to being intrigued the first time I saw an ad for WhiteSmoke software. The idea was simple - this was a piece of software that would improve your written work. Now, you all know how I feel about Microsoft Word - the spelling and grammar check just don’t cut it. so [...] [...more]
Many of us try to balance our home lives with our freelance writing careers and most of the time we succeed. We manage to get breakfast for children and get them off to school, talk to clients, meet deadlines, collect children, supervise homework and tuck them up in bed. All without breaking a sweat (most [...] [...more]
