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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

Archive for March 2006

March 31st, 2006

46 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors

“Only” 46 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors today - which still makes way over 100 for the week.
It seemed to me today that I saw several writing jobs reposted - if I’m right, that means the potential employeres are not finding what they need the first time around. It should go without saying, […]

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March 30th, 2006

Damn! Why Didn’t I Write That?

Damn! Why Didn’t I Write That? is one of those books I’d really like to like a whole bunch… it depends on my mood. Marc McCutcheon has written what I might style as a rah rah book about writing best selling non-fiction.
On days when I’m charged up about writing a new book, this one […]

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March 29th, 2006

Great Marketing Tips For Writers

I love the forum at About Freelance Writing - I’m always learning something new. Forum member, freelance writer Kristen King has a blog called inkthinker - today (March 28) she’s blogged “No-Frills Freelance Marketing” and posted the link on our forum.
As I read down her list of suggestions I was thinking, “yep, I know that, […]

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March 28th, 2006

75 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors

I thought I’d never get finished - just posted 75 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors!
They run the gambit, from .03 a word for reprints to as much as $20,000 for a project. I also discovered one that’s a flat out attempt to scam Google adwords, and reported it.
And there were the usual do-my-home-work, […]

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March 27th, 2006

Time Tracking

I don’t know about you, but I tend to be pretty vague about time… oh I’m not late to appointments… that’s not what I mean. I tend to think I have an infinite amount of time to do a writing project. Or I think I can somehow get more writing projects done in a day […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

March 24th, 2006

59 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors

Yep, there are 59 new jobs for freelance writers and editors today! Thought we might make it to 60, but no cigar.
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March 21st, 2006

56 New Freelance Writing and Editing Jobs

56 New Freelance Writing and Editing Jobs - and all I can think about at the moment is spring! Even though I’m in San Diego, I love the turn from winter to spring… more light… more energy.
Write well and often,

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March 17th, 2006

68 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors

Just posted 68 New Jobs for Freelance Writers and Editors - the numbers are back up, which is good. It also leads me to suspect there’s a ton of work out there that never shows up on the ‘net. I suspect a few calls to corporations in your area might get you some interesting results.
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March 14th, 2006

56 New Jobs for Freelance Writers

The job number is back up - just posted 56 new jobs for freelance writers and editors. Go get ‘em.
Someone started a thread on our forum about elance today - the problem with elance is that the bids are shown and the price for each job keeps going lower and lower… not a good thing […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

March 10th, 2006

45 Freelance Writing and Editing Jobs

Just posted 45 Freelance Writing and Editing Jobs - lowest in weeks, but still a nice number.
The write a gillion articles for $2 or so are still out there… I didn’t count, but it seemed like even more of them. Also I think the so-called academic publishers who want you to writer papers for […]

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