You may not realize it, but I’ve been sick most of this week. I caught his cold, which isn’t fair – he flies home from warm places and I get to keep the germs he’s shared on the airplane. The last three days have been spent trying to keep my lungs from exiting as the…
Worthy Tip: Finding Value
If you haven’t gone over to Screw You! and read Kathy Kehrli’s account of her Demand Studio experience, please do so. It’s insightful. It’s also a balanced report, one in which Kathy herself is upfront and makes no judgments based on anything but her personal experience. It’s a good read for new writers faced with…
Saying When
No one likes to drop a client, especially when that client has been a steady source of work and income. But we outgrow each other, we move in different directions, and dare I say we bore of each other? By the end of this week, I will have ended a long-term client relationship for numerous…
Limbo, Then Sprint
No, I’m not talking about my exercise program. I’m talking about short deadlines that are made shorter by lack of contracts or lack of something on the client side. Currently I’m sitting on two projects, both of which have an end-of-the-month deadline, both of which are at this moment uncontracted. I have notes to both…
More from Less
The news this morning about the jobless rate and the predictions going forward were less-than-inspiring. Ten percent is bad. Worse, jobs aren’t just drying up temporarily – they’re never coming back or they’re moving overseas. Fewer people are doing more work, and it’s a matter of time before the collective meltdown of overworked Americans occurs….
Transitions and Friday Stuff
I don’t know if it’s the Windows Easy Transfer app or my husband I have to thank for it, but the transfer of all my stuff from the old computer to the new one was so freaking easy it was silly. I have to install programs, which I’m doing in order of priority, but I…
The Best and Not-so Best
Great day yesterday. I love when I can say that. I made good progress on some ongoing projects, and I’m enjoying very much the work. I got a link to one of my articles and was asked to write two more. Also, a collaboration is shaping up and I’m exciting to be moving into new…
Freelance or Full Time?
This is not a post about whether you should be in freelancing or stick with full-time work. This is a post about how to tell if your client is paying for a contractor but expecting an employee. I’ve had it happen to me a few times. My guess is so have you. Here’s what your…
Turn the Beat Around
There’s an earworm for you. But it’s something we should all remember, for I’m about to go out on a limb and make a prediction. I predict that within the year, content mills will lose a lot of business – so much so that many who own them will see the futility of the business…
Your Learning Curve
Kimberly Ben over at Avid Writer has a great post up about the stability of a freelance career compared to a 9-to-5 job. In the comments, Kim said something incredibly insightful: “… if it weren’t for freelancing I wouldn’t have half the skills I’ve developed over the past two years.” Ditto that. As freelancers, we’re…