What I’m listening to: The Sky is Crying by Stevie Ray Vaughan January is nearing a close, but that doesn’t mean your chance to redeem a failing freelance writing career is over. In fact, every day you wake up is another chance to get it right, to plan it out, to start on a different…
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Marketing Monday: The Non-Clients
What I’m reading: The Illustrated Mahabharata What I’m listening to: You’re the Best Thing About Me by U2 At this writing, I’m back at my desk and trying to get client work finished. I intend to head back to my parents’ house next week. My father has stabilized (remarkably), so I felt it safe to…
Monday Marketing Move: One More Time
What I’m listening to: Every Part of Me by Steve Earle Home — I’m beginning to forget what it looks like. I’ve been at my parents’ house since Deceber 23rd. My dad’s illness has progressed dramatically, and I won’t leave now. I hear I have a Christmas tree still up. Decorations await, too. As do…
4 Game-changing Freelance Writing Moves
What I’m listening to: Robot Rock by Daft Punk I’m settling back in to what might turn out to be a normal workweek. After the upheaval of last week (and the fact that I was able to finish just one assignment), I’m working long hours to get things sorted. Because my dad’s situation isn’t great,…
The Well-Fed Craft: An Interview with Peter Bowerman
If you’ve been around my blog any length of time, you know I rarely promote anything. But once in a while, something comes along that is just so good, I feel if I don’t promote it, I’m doing you guys a disservice. Such is the case with anything Peter Bowerman puts out. His latest offering…
Free Advice Friday: Marketing Done Right
What I’m listening to: Die Like a Rich Boy by Frightened Rabbit Another year, another Writers Worth Month past. As much as I enjoy it, that month-long commitment always comes at the absolute worst time. It’s right after the big conference I attend. It’s right at a time when companies are calling with projects. It’s right…
Freelance Show & Tell
What I’m listening to: California by The Airborne Toxic Event I spent this week working on smaller projects for clients, which has given me a little time to work on my brochure and website copy. Full disclosure: It also gave me time to stare at a live feed of a giraffe eating, pacing, brooding like…
Free Advice Friday: The Real Secret to Getting Freelance Work
What I’m listening to: Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen Yesterday was proof of why I love my job. My kid needed someone to sit at her house and wait for an appliance delivery. My hand went up — hell, I volunteered. So I packed up my Surface and cell phone and moved my work to…
Tuesday Take: How to Blow it with Ineffective Marketing
What I’m listening to: Iceberg by We Invented Paris Another week, another project list to work through. I have an ongoing project that I’ve been chipping away at. This week’s workload, so far, is light, so I may have a chance to really catch up. I have one article assignment due this week, and I’m…
The Year of Living Dangerously
What’s on the iPod: Don’t Wanna Lose Your Love by Carlos Santana w/Los Lonely Boys I’m about to admit something to you that I’ve hidden for close to a year — I haven’t marketed at all this year. Maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement. Yes, definitely an overstatement. Let me rephrase: I haven’t had…