Don’t groan – this isn’t going to be that boring, I swear. But as we’ve talked over the years, I’ve come to the realization that contracts are needing a bit more, well, meat to them so that you and I can CYA. So here are a few things you might want to include in your…
Author: lwidmer
Many Faces of Plagiarism
Jen at CatalystBlogger had a great post nearly a year ago on Shady Writing Projects. On the list was “Rewrite this so we can’t be sued for copyright.” While it’s pretty easy to figure out what to do when a client hits you with that line (run), what about the clients who don’t tell you…
The Case of The Rising Interest Rate That Isn’t
Victory! Proving once again that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, I repeated “Can you help me?” to my bank (the one that was about to raise my interest rates for “nonactivity” in an active checking account), I have prevailed. I was informed by the very same man who first informed me…
Your Blogging Platform
Didn’t know you had one, did you? You may not, actually. It would depend on your purpose each time you sit down to type something into your little corner of cyberspace. Does your stuff have a theme? Should it? Do you feel yourself twisting in the wind a bit, or are your posts a bit…
Networking is a Two-way Street
Over the weekend I did some trimming to my blog roll and to my general philosophy about a few contacts in the writing world. See, I have little problem linking to you if you’re engaging with people who comment, you visit once in a blue moon, or you link back. While linking back to me…
Random Chum for a Friday
I may actually finish this large project I’ve been working on for what seems like months (but has actually been a week and a half). I could conceivably hand it over to the client by Monday. In order to do so, I may – are you sitting down? – work the weekend. Right now I’m…
October’s Most-Commented
Today I’m neck-deep in a huge project, trying to get an article started/finished, and planning to spend some quality time adding to my Nano count. Since I’m busy treading water, I thought now would be a good time to see what had you talking last month: When You’re Out of the Office – Sure, we…
Grace and Change
John McCain is a gracious man. Despite an increasingly negative campaign in the last weeks of the campaigning, he has always been a good person. While he wasn’t able to prove it to enough of the people, McCain has a long career of bipartisan service. His speech last night was typical of what I’ve come…
Why Technology Bites
I spent six hours Monday working my heart out on a client file, carefully saving every ten minutes or so. Went to open the file yesterday – yes, it’s gone. Nowhere to be found. I searched for it. Nope. Every unedited version is there, but not the one I need. I looked in the Temporary…
Making Change
We were up at 5 and at the polls by 5:30. They didn’t open until 7, but we weren’t the only ones there – we were third, fourth, and fifth in line. The earliest was there at 5 waiting. Glad we did, too. By 6:15, all the parking spaces were gone. By 7, they were…