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Monthly Assessment: September 2015

Posted on by lwidmer

What’s on the iPod: Timeless by The Airborne Toxic Event What a weekend. Cape May, New Jersey in October is usually sunny, warm and busy. This year, skip the first two qualifiers. Imagine howling winds and driving rain in nonstop, multiple-day fashion.  It was wet — inches of rain three days out of the four…

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Writers Guide to Choosing a Trade Show

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What’s on the iPod: The Wrestle by Frightened Rabbit It’s been a nice, short week for me. I was off on Monday, and now I’m in Cape May enjoying some time off. Okay, as a hurricane bears down, but it’s an adventure, and it means I’m not in front of a project. It’s been a…

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5 Ways to Manage Client Upset

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What’s on the iPod: Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty Busy week, albeit a short one since my husband and I are finally going to take that vacation we’ve been putting off. Sadly, it’s just four days, but it’s four I don’t have to think about projects or money or anything beyond relaxing. After the weekend…

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Pope-apalooza

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I’m Poped. It was a long, tiring, glorious weekend in which I experienced many firsts. The first time I’ve ever seen a city completely shut down to vehicle traffic. The first time major highways were closed. The first time train service was running just two time periods a day. The first time I’ve ever seen…

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Your Freelance Career Evaluation

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What’s on the iPod: Naked Kids by Grouplove Today’s my TGIF (TGIT?). I’m taking tomorrow and Monday as we have this guy from Argentina showing up, and about a million of us are going to the city on Sunday to greet him…. Pope madness. It’s not the visit itself that’s created the madness (though it’s…

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The Worst Freelance Writing Career Roadblock

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What’s on the iPod: Misfits and Lovers by The Wallflowers Progress. That’s how last week ended. I’d made significant progress on a white paper project, and I hope to have it finished by Wednesday. Good thing — I have two more projects starting up, and a third that will show up right when I don’t…

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7 Ways to Vet a Writing Course

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Today is going to be busy. I have plenty of interviews to go over for a white paper, and some research to finish up. Plus, writers group is here tonight. Not only do I need to clean — I need to write something to present. Behind the scenes here at the blog, I’m busy putting…

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The Letter of Introduction, Simplified

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Thanks to everyone who showed up for the Marketing Q&A webinar hosted by Jake Poinier! It was a great conversation and I hope you took something actionable away from it. We promise to do it again soon. We had some really interesting conversation in the webinar, too. With 54 people in attendance, the questions were…

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Free Advice Friday: Your Freelance Prospecting List

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What’s on the iPod: Hardliners by Holcomb Waller For a week that has just a few items on the to-do list, it’s kept me busy. Yesterday I talked with a new client and started in on their project almost immediately. Today, I continue that, plus I’ll be starting a draft for another client and talking…

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Writers Worth: Undoing the Client Posse

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What’s on the iPod: Down With the Shine by The Avett Brothers What a nice, long weekend! Mine actually started a little early — Friday was the first day in months that I didn’t have a ton of work in front of me. I’ve managed to get through three more projects, and the three remaining…

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  1. Anne Wayman Avatar
    Anne Wayman

    I suspect you're right, understanding exactly who is in charge and who will sign off gets rid of a lot of this nonsense.

    That said, I've been known to say something like, "you know what? Your BIL may be right – what's his background in writing and publishing?"

    "Oh, okay, then his expertise lies elsewhere. The real point is what do you think?"

    Or "Well, since you signed the contract, you're the one who gets to decide. Remember after the third revision, I start billing by the hour."

    And sometimes none of this works and you lose a client… whew!

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  2. Paula Hendrickson Avatar
    Paula Hendrickson

    The worst time I recall was my first (and only) article for a business magazine. My editor sent me the edited copy with questions, and the track changes function shows she and another editor had both made changes and were asking me for corrections to changes they'd made!

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  3. Lori Widmer Avatar
    Lori Widmer

    I love your last line, Anne. Mentioning additional cost is a great way to send the message!

    Paula, that's almost funny. I had that happen, too. A rather awful editor had overthought the small article and changed it so many times that she was asking me to prove a statement she'd made with information she'd crossed out when she made the statement. LOL Seven edits in, it was no longer my article. At that point I wanted to ask why she didn't just write it herself.

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  4. Paula Hendrickson Avatar
    Paula Hendrickson

    Exactly! The extra editor in this case even asked for clarification when that information was in the very next sentence!

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  5. Lori Widmer Avatar
    Lori Widmer

    I had a feeling. Isn't that maddening?

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  6. DAVID D GEER Avatar
    DAVID D GEER

    This post is rocking awesome, and I’m not surprised, Lori, you always bring the good stuff.
    I have a selfish request: could you post an article with an example of a solid writer contract in its entirety? I could use it, and I bet some other folks could, too.
    I’d even pay a few bucks if you want to throw it up for sale somewhere.
    Either way, I’ll keep following your posts; their quite useful.

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    1. Lori Widmer Avatar
      Lori Widmer

      Great thought, David! Thanks for the suggestion.

      Look for it this week.

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