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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

February 20th, 2008

We All Need Editors!

The nature of blogging is it’s off the cuff. This blog, like many others, even most, doesn’t have a copy editor that checks for mistakes and typos before it’s published.
Now, anyone who knows me knows I’m not a copy editor! My spelling is creative at best. Of course, computers catch many errors, but not all […]

By Anne Wayman -- 13 comments

September 21st, 2007

Being A Hero For Yourself

Mark Silver, business consultant and writer has a post on his blog called Making your heroic choice. He quotes from an interview by Maya Frost with author Sarah Susanka.
Sarah talks about how she got a book written while she had a fulltime job. Her secret? She made a twice-weekly appointment with herself to write, and […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

July 10th, 2007

I Want Some Guest Bloggers

One of the great things about blogging is you can tell the world what’s going on with you. Often I’m able to gin up a post or two just based on whatever it is I’m working on at the moment.
On the other hand, the prospect of coming up with two or three posts a day […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

March 8th, 2007

I’m Taking the Rest of the Day Off!

Whew… I just finished a proposal which had taken me several days to get together. It included reading something I’d written years ago and doing some typo-fixing to include as a sample. I was favorably impressed with my work from way back when.
I also wrote two blog entries for a client, answered another client’s question […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

March 2nd, 2007

Freelance Writers and Sick Leave - 2

Last week I wrote about freelance writers and sick leave. It was sparked by me pulling my back and being in major pain. But it seems like illness can come in bunches. Although my back is close to healed, yesterday I broke out in what can only be described as a major cold.
You know, sneezing, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments