What’s on the iPod: Falling by Desmond Myers How was your weekend? Did you get to celebrate the real reason for the day off? My weekend was to be a good one, except for one little thing — a flare up of an ongoing issue. I was in pain much of the weekend, and I…
Writers Worth: Readjusting Your Attitude
What’s on the iPod: Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke feat. T.I., Pharell Who knew I’d be working this week? I sure didn’t. As it stands, I may have worked the equivalent of three days this month — until this week. I feel numb, tingly, but bored. That’s my sign to get busy again. Not a…
Writers Worth: Your What-the-hell Moment
What’s on the iPod: Take Off Your Sunglasses by Ezra Furman & the Harpoons Here I am, nearly three weeks since surgery, and I’m slowly beginning to feel back to normal. Every day seems a little easier in terms of walking, standing upright (you can’t imagine how tight the incision feels), and getting more mobile….
Writers Worth: A Dirty Little Secret About Pricing
Today’s enlightening guest post comes from Walt Kania, a freelance marketing writer who discovered an eye-opening secret about setting your price. Pricing is mostly in your head. Treat it that way. By Walt Kania I used to think that our fees as writers were pre-ordained by all sorts of fancy economic and accounting factors, like…
The Long, Strange Trip
What’s on the iPod: Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye Home. So here I sit in my kitchen on what I can only call a Scottish Sunday — drizzling, all-day rain that pulls the explosion of lush spring greens that much closer to the earth for both sight and touch — and I…
Writers Worth: A Different Kind of Proposition
Today’s guest post comes from the query free writer herself, Jennifer Mattern. Writers: What’s Your Value Proposition? By Jennifer Mattern In an earlier Writer’s Worth post, Lori talked about how freelance writers need to accept their own worth in order to charge professional rates for their services. She talked about some of the ways you…
Writers Worth: Deliver Your Walking Papers
Writers Worth: Giving it Away?
Still out convalescing. Today is a real treat. Paula Hendrickson, whose post appeared here Monday, alerted me to the following article, written by C. Hope Clark. I contacted Hope and explained my plight — my ongoing plight to raise awareness one writer at a time. Hope graciously agreed to let us reprint her original article…
Writers Worth: How to Find Your Best Employee
Writers Worth: Editors, Review Your Rates
Welcome to Writers Worth Week! For six years now, Writers Worth has become a mini-movement designed to help writers at all career stages find, and assert, their value in the marketplace. Over the years, it’s gone from one day of my pushing and fussing to a week of advice and strategies, to last year’s month-long…