What I’m listening to: Good Grief by Bastille I love when my friends give me great ideas for a blog post. This one comes to us via Paula Hendrickson, who said “You’ll hate it so much, you’ll love it.” Yes, it’s that bad. Here is this month’s candidate for worst job ever. I’ve masked some…
7 Writing Roadblocks (and how to remove them)
What I’m listening to: Fix You by Coldplay Today starts a mini-marathon. In an attempt to get ahead of work so I can come home from vacation without stressing, I’m on a quest to write four small (750-word) articles by Friday. Fingers crossed. After having a great conversation on the phone last week with a…
New Scam Targeting Freelance Writers
What I’m listening to: 6th Avenue Heartache by The Wallflowers I want to bottle yesterday and drink from that thermos every day. I had allotted myself a week to finish four articles — I finished the third one yesterday. So now I have three days in which to finish the last one. That right there is…
5 Negotiation Tactics for Freelancers
What I’m listening to Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Sometimes I wish there were more days in the weekend so I could get everything off my to-do list. We managed to plan part of our upcoming vacation, and I moved some files off my old computer to my new one. That’s the…
5 Scary Freelance Writing Business Mistakes
What I’m listening to: The Fall of Rome by The Airborne Toxic Event Jeezuz, what a week. I did the old trick to get more work coming in — I thought about taking next week off for vacation. Not that I need more work, but I wanted a lot of these stalled projects to finish….
The One-step Way to Boost Your Referral Success
What I’m reading: The Tin Drum by Günter Grass What I’m listening to: Mr. Hurricane by Beast The week started out good so far. Yesterday I started — and finished — one article assignment and got to work on revisions for another article. The latter is a piece with an editor I’ve not worked with before,…
Writing Advice That’s Killing Your Career
What I’m reading: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson What I’m listening to: Collide by James Bay Oh, the joys of a short week. Naturally, I have big projects due next week, so I’m working full out. I have to stop briefly today for an article interview, a client call, and lunch with my aunt…
New Face, Same Place
Welcome to the new Words on the Page blog home! I’ve finally made the move to WordPress, leaving behind Blogger, which was this blog’s home for the last decade. While it was a nice place to be, it wasn’t allowing me the function that WordPress does. Not that I’m a designer, or even adept enough…
This Job, Not That Job
What I’m reading: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon What I’m listening to: Incomplete by James Bay Isn’t it fun to spend your birthday doing something you’ve been meaning to do? Isn’t it great to try ticking off the list that one item, say moving a blog, on a day that you’ve…
4 Things to Change Now to Improve Your Writing Career
What I’m listening to: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day Wait — isn’t summer supposed to be the slow period? I can’t breathe for the amount of work coming in. Yesterday, I was handed two more projects. That makes five projects on my schedule, and it means once more, I’m about to run when…