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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

Archive for March 2008

March 21st, 2008

Arghhh - Email!

Don’t get me wrong. I love email! When it’s from real people, like clients, potential clients, family, and friends, it’s great. I even have a pretty good system for keeping on top of it… pretty good.
Recently it’s fallen almost completely apart. Why? Because I haven’t done the sorting, deleting, etc. I need to do […]

By Anne Wayman -- 9 comments

March 21st, 2008

Freelance Writing Jobs - 68 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs

We end this week with 68 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs.
The brings the total writing jobs this week to 180 - which doesn’t seem like a recession to me. < strong>What do you think?
Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing - a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

March 20th, 2008

I’m A Morning Writer - Are You?

I don’t remember when getting up early in the morning started to work for me. It certainly wasn’t when I was a teenager! As a new mother, I remember being sure I wouldn’t get a chance to sleep in until the twins were in their 20s. Maybe it was years and years later, when I […]

By Anne Wayman -- 15 comments

March 19th, 2008

The Blues, Robert Johnson, Creativity, Freelance Writing and Blogging

So yesterday - I think it was yesterday - I ran into Men With Pens. Today I went back because I had a bit of time to really poke around.
I found this: Getting Creative With Your Content It’s a decent rant about creativity, the lack of it, the way it stalls, along with a challenge […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

March 19th, 2008

Freelance Writing Jobs - 50 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs

On this Wednesday we have 50 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs.
Go get ‘em, and good luck.
Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing - a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision - for those who want to get a book written.
Tags: blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs, Freelance Writing Jobs, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

March 18th, 2008

Dumping My Deathless Prose

Oh good grief! How often do I have to learn this lesson?
I’ve been having huge trouble with a chapter in a ghostwriting chapter. This has been going on for days. I’ve re-listened to the DVD the author sent, read the offending chapter multiple times and simply couldn’t see what was wrong. I even put it […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

March 18th, 2008

Two Guys and a Blog

Stumbled onto (into… what’s proper when speaking of a blog or a web page?) a blog called Men With Pens. Nifty blog about writing and life in general. There are sections on fiction writing, running a writing or other business, blogging, design and one called “Way off Topic.”
I particularly liked Are You Charging What You’re […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

March 18th, 2008

Links to 100 Blogs for Freelancers

Heather Johnson, over at bootstrapper.com has assembled a list she calls The Top 100 Freelancer Blogs. There are 16 blogs for freelance writers here, including The Golden Pencil and some other favorites, as well as some that are new to me.
But the rest of the list is well worth exploring. There is, for example, a […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

March 17th, 2008

Every Writer’s Office Needs a Cat and a Weeping Chair

Some place I’ve written about the fact that many writers need cats to help them get their work done. MzTiz right now is in a snit because she thinks we’re moving again. We’re not, but I used boxes to unload the bookcase in the living room so I could move it to the office, and […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

March 17th, 2008

Q&A - Getting Started With No Credits

Lara, who blogs at The Crayon Virtuoso, posted this question in comments here:
This is nice advice, but I never had a career before staying home with my kids. And I’m more interesting in copy writing/copy editing. How do you convince prospective clients you know what you’re doing when you have no experience? How do you […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments