My New Year’s resolution this year was a simple one–I decided that I would try to gain one new client every month. I reasoned that finding new clients would be a bit easier to focus on than say bringing in a certain dollar amount. I figured that if the clients were there, the money would…
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3-22-06 Already this morning, I’ve had to deal with an email service problem, two phone calls totally unrelated to work, and I’ve had to search for things for other people while trying to start my work day. All of this and it’s not even 9 a.m. yet. Some days you just know nothing’s getting done….
3-21-06 During your work week, do you build time into your schedule for destressing? For some reason, we writers believe that we have to be working nonstop and at least twelve hours a day in order to be successful and happy. Not so. In fact, success comes more from effective planning of your work week,…
3-20-06 Recently, I had the misfortune of being contacted by a man who had done some work for me. It had been a year since we’d talked and since things ended well, I was shocked when a year later, he accused me of copyright violation and of various other heinous crimes, including being too stupid…
What’s Your Value?
What’s the worst sin you can commit as a writer? Splitting an infinitive? Dangling a modifier? Using bad sentence structure? While all of those are of concern, especially if you call yourself a professional writer, the worst sin of them all is to devalue yourself. And you do, you know. You look at those ads…