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Time Away
Because I’ll be traveling back home to say my goodbyes in person, I won’t be blogging today or tomorrow. Meanwhile, visit a few of my favorites: Screw You!Ink in My CoffeeAbout Freelance WritingAll Freelance WritingSimply Stated Business What are some of your favorite blogs?
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Beyond Demand
A sad day yesterday – I learned over the weekend that my first boyfriend lost his fight with cancer. It wasn’t unexpected, but I don’t think anyone can really be prepared to hear that sort of news. I’d done my mourning, said my goodbyes, resolved in my own mind that which wasn’t resolved decades ago….
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Why Your Writing Blog Sucks
Remember your first blog post? Remember all those plans you had for posting regularly, growing the readership, increasing your business awareness? So what happened? I know plenty of you who have terrific, must-read blogs. For very different reasons, each of you has attracted an audience and has found a way to distinguish your blog from…
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Being Memorable
What’s on the iPod: Nothing – no time to listen! I’m still plunged deeply into the large project with little sight of any finish line. But I managed to get some other client work done before nine a.m. yesterday, which opened up the rest of the day to chunk down this project. Also, I had…
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The Cross-over
Yesterday was one of those days where I got up from this chair and walked a mile. I’d been sitting in the same spot, powering through a big project, since 7:30. At 5 pm, I was toasted. Today it’s a second pass on some of the smaller sections, and pushing forward again. I had sent…
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How Low Do You Go?
At this writing, I’m sitting at my new desk. It’s a solid oak mission-style desk with a keyboard drawer and no other storage. And yes, that’s exactly the way I want it. I’m a hoarder of sorts – not to the level of being on a reality cable show, but I save books, papers, notes…
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Freelance Screw-offs
Thanks to everyone involved for the great discussion last week about new writers and some of the over-inflated expectations they have of us who’ve been at it a while. I hope it didn’t chase any newbies off, but that it helped you understand the frustrations we face when we try helping and run right into…
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Brain Freeze
Today’s workload is much lighter. I labored through a complex article, complete with Congressional debates aplenty, expert advice up the wazoo, and more than enough last-minute debate to keep me reading every release up until Congress took its break. Today, it’s on to cloud storage. My life is one evolving issue after another. Because my…
