It’s been a good week. Coming off a really rough re-entry (lots of work the two days after I got back), I was able to step back this week, rearrange the schedule, and buy myself a little wiggle room to readjust. I begged off the project offer I mentioned yesterday. Yes, I could have taken…
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When Losing is a Good Thing
Thanks once again to Peter Bowerman for hosting me on the Well-Fed Writer blog. Please hop on over and give Peter some comment love. Sometimes I like to go back to offers I’ve received, re-examine them, and review my decision to either take them or turn them down. Sometimes the decision is easy – sometimes…
When It’s Over
I have you humming that Sugar Ray song, don’t I? Hop on over to Peter Bowerman’s Well-Fed Writer Blog – I have a guest post up. Thanks, Peter! Good day yesterday. I managed to get some interviews lined up for an article, worked on things for the Five Buck Forum, then chatted with a new…
Concentrated Marketing
My best ideas come from you. This week proves that to be true thanks to our own Wade Finnegan, who was wondering out loud how to figure out his niche or if he even wants one. He has one of the best lines of the month: “2012 will be the year this takes off, I…
Settling In
I get to stay home. Finally. Last week proved to be the roughest re-entry into work ever. I got off the plane at 8:30 pm Wednesday, was sitting here fighting off the two-hour time difference Thursday morning while writing a client article and arranging interviews for other projects, then was tied up in client meetings…
What Nature Has Taught Me About Business
I have a guest article up over at About’s Freelance Writing site. Thanks, Allena! I had a shaky re-entry yesterday, first with clearing up an invoice problem that apparently never existed (long, boring story involving incompetence somewhere else), then with a quick turn-around on a new client project, which I hope is what they’re looking…
Returning
Finally, I return. How were the holidays for you? Because too much information is already floating around the Internet, I kept a low profile on our being away for two weeks. We went to Phoenix and spent a wonderful Christmas with his family, then we spent a week touring the desert south of Tucson. At…
Seeing Patterns
Still away from the computer, but I did want to talk a little about the monthly assessments. By now you who have shared your progress each month have done something besides just giving yourself a snapshot of what you’ve done that month. In every monthly post right here, you’ve created a picture of your entire…
Worthiness: Your Musts
Happy New Year! I’m still on hiatus, but I wasn’t going to leave without scheduling a few posts. Hopefully, this one and others will serve as a good start to 2012. We’re about five and a half months out from Writers Worth Week, but it’s never too soon to build value and worth into our…
Monthly Assessment: December 2011
I’m still out of the office, but I wanted to leave behind the monthly assessment. Just because the rest of the country is on vacation doesn’t mean we can avoid accountability. Here’s how it went for me in December: Queries:Knowing time was limited, I didn’t send any queries out this month. Well, almost. I put…