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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

May 8th, 2008

Q&As for Freelance Writers

Have you got questions about making money writing as a freelancer? We’ve got answers:

Do I Need a Degree?
How Do I Submit Clips?
What am I doing wrong in responding to ads?
Can I charge a late fee for a late payment?
Pricing Ghostwriting
Asking for Pay
Manuscript Format
Why Am I Not Getting A Response?
Are The Writing Jobs You Post […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

May 7th, 2008

Want Powerful Writing Examples? Try a Little Romance!

Sonia Simone who writes the excellent copyblogger has a wonderful post called: What Romance Novels Can Teach You About Powerful Copywriting. It’s a great article, except it’s too limited.
The truth is, the principles Sonia point out about romance novels… what makes them work, will work for many more kinds of writing than just copy or […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

May 5th, 2008

Borders Bookstores Beta Digital

I was truly surprised when I discovered that one of Borders Bookstore’s 15 new concept stores around the country opened a few days ago just moments from me in National City (adjacent to San Diego on the south). I’m not totally clear on the concept of concept store in this instance, although I was intrigued […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2008

An Ultimate Distraction For Writers

Can you see what’s in my backyard? Yep, kittens! There are actually four of them and plus, of course, the mom. All feral at the moment, but three and maybe four of the kittens are spoken for. I’ll try to trap mom once the kittens are gone and get her nutered, then, if she’ll let […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

April 28th, 2008

The $600 Tax Rebate Revisited

Back in March I speculated about what I’d do when my $600 rebate arrived. Today, with the announcement that the first rebates were deposited today, I looked back at my post.
I was tickled to see that I managed to order a new couch and get bookcases without the rebate. But I’m still not sure what […]

By Anne Wayman -- 8 comments

April 24th, 2008

Ebook Readers - A Problem I Hadn’t Thought Of

Sigh! I suppose it should be obvious, but until I read Joe Wikert’s story called Kindle Book Conversion: One Author’s Story that I realized there would, of course, be formatting problems when it came time to get your book, or mine, into shape for whatever ebook reader I wanted to be able to sell it […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

April 15th, 2008

Double Tax Day Is How It Feels To Me

Sigh!
So I sent off both my federal and state income tax for last year a little over a week ago. I knew I could wait until today, but I wanted it out of my hair.
Of course, I had “forgotten” that April 15th also marks the time to send in estimated tax - a lovely […]

By Anne Wayman -- 6 comments

April 15th, 2008

Writers Rumble at Helium

According to Betsy Schiffma, blogger at Epicenter, Wired Magazine’s business blog, writers at Helium.com are unhappy because the service is considering withholding payment from authors who are no longer active, even if their content is producing profit - that ‘long-tail’ profit. According to Wired, Helium’s payment model is based on the quality ranking by other […]

By Anne Wayman -- 8 comments

April 9th, 2008

I’m Not As Flexible As I Like To Think I Am!

If you asked me, I’d probably tell you I’m a flexible person… which would be true, except when it comes to my morning routine!
It actually started last night when I successfully trapped one of the three feral cats we have here with the goal of taking him to the vet for neutering. Poor kitty […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

April 7th, 2008

Blogging to Death?

Thanks to Jennifer Hoffman who pointed out a NY Times article called: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop.
Part of the story involves a couple of tech bloggers who may have died because they were so focused on their blogs they forgot to eat, exercise or otherwise take any sort of […]

By Anne Wayman -- 8 comments

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