Irreverent Freelancer Kathy Kehrli has found yet another Get-a-Clue Freelance Request, which offers a whopping $5 for a 500-word article. I don’t know what’s more disturbing: the offer or that Kathy’s repository of lousy offers appears bottomless. She’s been exposing these requests for years and each time I think I’ve seen it all, she brings…
Street Cred
I won! I won! Yay! Thank you to Maria Schneider, her blog community, and you guys for naming this blog one of the Top 25! Head over to the Editor Unleashed blog and see the other cool choices. Many are new to me. One in particular is a favorite – The Urban Muse. Congratulations to…
Here Comes the Sun
It seems the work reappeared right when the school buses did. I’m inches from swimming in it again. Fantastic! Given the fact that I didn’t get much marketing in, this is great. I now have three regular gigs and a number of others coming that are going to make it a nice fall/winter. I was…
Falling Short
Faceboook wisdom – sometimes no matter how hard you try, some people still suck and you can’t please them. It reflects one or two less recent situations in which the client (a third-party client in these cases, so no worries of embarrassment) didn’t care to instruct or amend or even help us understand. Instead, she…
Marketing or Content Dumping?
Good friend Kirk Petersen sent over a link to a blog post touting using one’s blog to market. Great! That’s what we do here every day, right? The difference? The blog post was paired with a photo of a woman who, if she’s not careful, could end up with a major chest cold. Her attributes…
Gender Bent
Fun post today. A little break from the writing-related discussions we usually have. Well, sort of a break. We were shopping for a microwave yesterday (and a hard drive, but this story is about the experience with the other necessity). The store clerk, a woman, greeted us, then assaulted us with reams of information. My…
Technology Bytes
It’s a good thing I don’t rely on my laptop as my primary technology. I turned it on over the weekend and out came this noise. It would seem the disk drive is dead. Now how it died while I was on vacation, no one is saying. I suspect it was dropped, but I’ll never…
Losing Your Comfort Zone
In a weekend conversation, we were talking about the times in which we had grown in our lives and our careers. In his life, he took an interest and went after it. In my life, I went beyond my comfort zone into new areas. In both cases, we grew. In the case of careers, same…
Monthly Assessment – August
My word, has it been a month already? It seems like I just wrote my monthly assessment for July. Well, the calendar says it’s time, so here goes. It was a short month for me in the earnings department thanks to two weeks in Scotland – has it really been two weeks since I came…
Advice for a Fellow Freelancer
Sometimes we run up against an issue that we can’t see our way to solving. Such is the case of one writer, who asked for anonymity, and her current client. I promised her I’d ask my blog readers to help her figure out how to deal with this situation. I have my own ideas, which…