A little off-topic today: Did you see the story about the Abercrombie and Fitch store in Virginia Beach being cited for violating the town’s obscenity laws? It’s here. Seems the posters showed a bit too much skin for some passersby, and the police agreed. A&F has a tainted history of showing us more than we…
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New Year, New You?
Let’s be honest; we somehow equate the beginning of each year with the chance to reinvent ourselves. And we do – for about a month. All our good intentions become crammed into the first week of the new year. Some are reasonable goals, such as contacting X number of potential clients per week. Others are…
The Goal is What Exactly?
Good lord, it’s slow around here! I’m sitting for eight hours or more with absolutely no work coming in save for yesterday’s ongoing routine. And thank God for it – it will be the first check I receive in 2008 and it will make this lean time a lot less lean. So what am I…
Reinventing the Writing Career
Let’s continue our thought from yesterday. We’ve determined our ultimate goals and we’re now fairly certain of what it is we must make annually in order to pay the bills, feed the family and put aside money for retirement, college expenses for the kids, savings, and that nest egg for your shore house down payment…
When All Else Fails, Get a Coach
You’ve tried all the stuff below, yet for some reason one or two of the steps are either not working or are impossible for you to get around to doing, make you cringe in fear, don’t sit well, feels like begging, etc. Maybe you need to work around those blocks with someone who knows how…
Clients: What to Expect from Your Writer/Editor
Sometimes the problems we have with clients comes from the expectations – what we deilver versus what they think we’ll deliver. Nowhere is this more true than in the actual scope of work we deliver. Recently I had a conversation with a client in which he thought I was performing A function when it was…
Freelance Does Not Mean EmployeeRecently I had an experience that can only be chalked up to a client who had troubles separating freelance from employee. I worked on a project, handed in the project. That’s where it got weird. The client called – more than once and at odd hours. Needed me ASAP. That would…