Where’s the Rush?A freelancer friend was lamenting this the other day – he’d worked his tail off to get in what was labeled a rush job by the client, and then he waited. And waited. And is still waiting for word on the project status…. I hate this – these pseudo-rush jobs that have to…
The Top Ten Amen for memes! Not that I’m a huge meme fan, but it helps when you’re too busy to think hard enough to write something useful. Freelance chum Lillie Ammann asked me to list my ten of my favorite posts. I was going to start surfing, but she said it had to be…
Blog R.I.P.I’ve noticed a disturbing (more like frustrating) trend in blogs – you get used to reading one, you look forward to it, and it just fizzles out. What gives? I suspect it’s because we start them with Things to Say!, but we realize too soon we really don’t have all that much to talk…
What a Way to Be PissedClient: By the way, I’m really pissed at you.Me: Yea? Why?Client: I couldn’t find a damn thing wrong with that article you sent. I had nothing to edit!Me: I hope I piss you off more often. It feels good when you finally synch with someone. That’s all it is. I…
Supposably Better Then Them GuysOne of my biggest peeves is the misuse of commonly used words. What irks me is the recent upward trend of the abuse. I’ve heard seemingly intelligent people spewing out (or writing out) misspellings left and right. Here’s my list, with the correct terms in parentheses. Feel free to add your…
Calling in SickIt happens – you get sick right about the time your big deadline hits. And unless you’re sporting super-human powers, you just can’t work with a fever/flu/cold/etc. Yet there’s that work, waiting for you. More often than not, the deadline is something you’ve carefully budgeted time for – given a healthy constitution. There…
Not Raining, but PouringNDAs and TestsI don’t know what let loose this past week, but I’m now sporting four new clients (and possibly a fifth), and most of it is ongoing work. That’s a good thing, for the two ongoing gigs I had already have waned and become stuck in approval/budget cycles. Thank God for…
The Price is RightWrapping Up the Beginner’s SeriesIt all comes down to money – whether we write because we love it or we write because we can, we also expect to be paid for it. In the coming years of your freelance career, you will continuously face the question of price. For you as a…
Job Postings – July 31, 2007 Just a short break from the Beginner’s Series in order to get some of my work done. I hope to be back at it this afternoon. Freelance WriterLine Editor/NY TimesFreelance ReportersBlogging GigProposal WriterEntertainment WritersNovel CollaboratorLocal Minneapolis StringerTrainee Editor/FinanceEnvironmental WritersFreelance Copywriter
Query Writing: The Follow Up
The Follow Up Thanks again to Nikki for providing today’s topic in our Beginner’s Series – how to follow up on those queries you’re now crafting with ease. Once you’ve waited your requisite amount of time (I admit – this is an arbitrary decision – despite what I said earlier, sometimes you just know when…