I tried several times to start an article yesterday, but 300 words in I had to give it up. I have a regular gig with a client and that gig requires me to send back revisions same day because of already-promised deadlines. If you know me, you know punctuality is my middle name (my maiden…
Reconnecting
Thank you, Kathy, for asking how to contact existing clients and get their attention without getting deleted. You gave me something to blog about – I’m sporting an energy shortage and I don’t want to spend time thinking up another topic. 😉 When I’m working with a client on a current project, I always end…
If You Lost Your Library, Would You Want Help?
A bit off-topic, but my sister’s youngest is home from school today. Her school is closed because Thursday night, an electrical fire destroyed their library. Read about it here. I talked with my sister today – not only is the library gone, but so are the teachers’ supplies, and the students’ textbooks are all damaged…
The New Job Dance
Yesterday I mentioned how we sometimes head to job boards to find immediate work, only to end up with something offering less-than-acceptable terms. I’m going to say it right here – and you’re free to disagree – but I think using job boards or job postings to find regular, high-paying work is doing you a…
Avoiding Desperation Marketing
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in a place where there’s no cash coming in, none on the horizon, and you’re looking desperately for something – anything – that pays now or sooner. Ooo, that many? Fact is we’ve all been there – some of us more than others. And what’s the first thing…
You’re Looking at a Twit-iot
The Great (?) Social Networking Experiment, Chapter 5 How many weeks now into my Twitter experience – three? I still don’t get it. Maybe I’m truly not cool enough, as my son would say. Or maybe I’m not working it correctly, but so far it’s proving to be no more than another attention-stealing reason why…
Wow Me!
You’re a creative soul, right? You put yourself out there as a professional who can craft excellent prose, mind the grammatical details, and fine-tune existing copy. So why is there so little creativity in your attempts to secure work? Once I had to hire some subcontractor work for a massive project. I put out an…
Things I Won’t Do for Cash
Quick Twitter update – I’ve learned to be picky about following people who follow me. In a few cases, the followers were spewing out pitch-after-pitch on their businesses/websites, etc. In one case, the dude was begging, constantly, for people to republish his notes (or retweet, as it’s known) – so much so I quickly bored…
A Carrie Bradshaw Wanna-be
It takes just one rerun of Sex and the City to get my blood boiling. Loved the show. Hated the message that a writer living in one of the most expensive cities in the country and writing ONE COLUMN in a freakin’ newspaper could afford $800 shoes, a Manhattan apartment, and be blessed with designer…
Starvation as Motivation
If you’re not starving, are you really an artist? I say if you’re not starving or threatened with starvation, where’s your motivation? Jennifer at CatalystBlogger had a great post about contingency plans in the freelance world. Jen was inspired after reading Ben Stein’s musings in the New York Times about uncertain economies and freelance scriptwriters….