Still off enjoying campgrounds, bugs, and hiking. Looking back over the posts of the last year or so, I noticed a lot of great advice – from you. Here is just a small sampling of guest posts that have graced this blog. Feel free to leave comments on this post or on those posts (the…
More Head-exploding Things
Hop on over to Get Paid to Write Online and read my guest post. I’m still on vacation, hopefully with a cozy camping spot, but I wanted to share some of my more intriguing finds this past week. Here are some more things that make my head explode: Rules that make no sense whatsoever. It…
Monthly Assessment: July 2011
Thought I forgot about the monthly assessment, didn’t you? Well, I did. And because it wasn’t the best month for me, I was tempted to ignore it completely. However, if I’m not accountable to you, then I can’t better myself. Same goes for you. Today I’m off for a week of camping and relaxing (I’ll…
Insanity Via Craig’s List
It’s nuts around here today. I have a ton of stuff to get done before I head off to Maine tomorrow. Five interviews between 11 and 4:30, car in for an oil change (who has time?), and negotiations on yet another job that came in on Friday. Thanks to Wendy Johnson for sending over this…
Common Sense and the New Freelancer
Super day yesterday. I managed to get nearly 500 words down on a 1,500-word article and I’ve yet to touch the interviews. It’s going well, amen. I scheduled a few more interviews – three for today – and I hope to have most of these articles at least roughed in by the time I shut…
Things That Make Us Stronger
Can I just say how predictable some facets of our profession are? I sat nearly idle the last two months. Luckily the projects I had paid enough, but I spent a ton of time on marketing and personal projects. The second I realize our vacation plans are firming up, in come not one, but three…
Things That Make My Head Explode
It was a good work day yesterday. I stuck to my plan, which was to concentrate on my larger project in the morning and get some new queries out in the afternoon. I received an assignment from a magazine I hadn’t contacted, so that was a nice bonus. I like when they have topics and…
This Job, Not That Job
Yesterday was another day where I spun my wheels and got very little done. I managed to get one query out before the daughter came home and took me to lunch. Too much time at the mall later, I insisted we come home. I’m not buying anything, and I can’t window shop when all I…
Calling in Reinforcement
Yesterday proved to be a difficult day to get anything done. I had a dentist appointment in the morning – there went three hours. I got home and the phone rang. Normally, I don’t take personal calls in the middle of the work day, but I hadn’t heard from my sister in a few weeks…
Killing Your Image – Internet Style
Yesterday was a good day. I finished a small project within an hour in the morning, tweaked another one, and got some really focused queries out the door. I’m excited because I know the queries are spot on. The only thing left is to hope the editors are buying. I managed to get a personal…