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Free Advice Friday: Your Freelance Clients, Prospected
What I’m listening to: Song #3 by Stone Sour One of the toughest things I had to learn as a freelancer wasn’t how to do the job. It wasn’t how to run a business, how to market, or even how to chase invoices. The toughest thing about freelance writing is finding clients. Actually, it’s more…
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Are You Freelancing with an Employee Mindset?
What I’m listening to: Backyard Skulls by Frightened Rabbit This week will be better. It has to be. I spent all last week pushing through projects and deadlines and working ahead so that I could take a slower pace this week. And I am. I have work and I will get things done, but I…
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A Freelancer’s Month of Getting Nothing Accomplished
What I’m listening to: When September Ends by Green Day It’s been a rough September. Dad is ill. Mom broke her knee. The stepson, his wife and kids (ages 2 and 3 months) have descended on the house and show no signs of departure (which I normally don’t mind, but it’s been a week and…
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Writer Wednesday: Fair Use and Mashups
What I’m listening to: Dark Nights by Dorothy For those of you freelance writers who work your asses off to do your jobs correctly, you’re about to feel some vindication. There was this book — a successful one, and one that was crowdfunded — that was no more than a mashup of both a Dr….
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Free Advice Friday: The Purposeful Freelancer
What I’m listening to: One Thing Leads to Another by The Fixx Know those weeks when you’re trying to get a lot done so the next week won’t be so bad? Forget it. Nothing is getting done and next week looks like more of the same. I have four deadlines, three of which are indeed…
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4 Freelance Writing Myths You Can Dispel Right Now
I was talking with a relative at a party last year when I realized I was missing a pretty big opportunity. He’d asked me how the writing was going, and then he said it: “You write stories and magazine articles, right?” Magazine articles, yes. But stories? Hardly ever, and certainly not for pay. He had gotten…
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Freelance Negotiating, Used Car Style
Because my life wasn’t complicated enough, I decided to buy a car right when everything was turning to quicksand underneath my feet. The night before I drove west to help my mom with my dad’s care, I was signing papers for my new(er) car. Twelve hours later, I drove it west. When I got home, I…
