Recent Posts Tagged With 'features'

• Promotion Is Free - New Series

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 in promotion, features

  I often get questions from new writers about how to get the word out that they are there and available for writing work. This topic has been coming up a lot recently, so even though it’s been covered before, I thought it was time to revisit it....

• Freelancing Gold: Referrals And Repeats

  Posted on Friday May 16th, 2008 at 11:02 in features, writing career, writing business

  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 ...

• Quiet Rebel Writer Review

  Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 07:43 in freelance writing, features

  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...

• How To Crack Your Own Whip As A Freelance Writer

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 09:12 in freelance writing, features, writing career

  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 w...

• WhiteSmoke Review

  Posted on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 at 07:04 in writing resources, features, writing tools

  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 ...

• Balance Revisited

  Posted on Friday May 2nd, 2008 at 07:54 in work at home, freelance writing, wahm, features

  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...

• Don’t Count Your Chickens

  Posted on Monday April 28th, 2008 at 12:15 in freelance writing, features

  How many times have you been in this situation? You’ve talked to a potential client, who is enthusiastic about your services and promises to hire you. You sit back in your office chair, feeling smug about having landed another job and rearrange...

• Posts On Writing April 2008

  Posted on Friday April 25th, 2008 at 17:46 in freelance writing, features

  I haven’t been quite as rigorous in collecting posts in the last month. That was in part due to blog woes, to an unexpected trip and to switching back to Google Reader after a three month flirtation with Netvibes. However, I have found time to ...