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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

July 23rd, 2008

Writers - Want To Earn More Money?

Want to earn more money for your freelance writing? Of course you do.
Peter Bowerman who, among other things, writes The Well-Fed Writer Blog has a great post with some very simple and easy to implement suggestions in a post called: Repeat After Me: “I Will Ask for More Money Next Time…”
And he’s absolutely right. […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

July 1st, 2008

Are You Writing? Or Are You Just Busy?

Pimpyourwork.com has a nifty quote from by Thomas Edison that notes the difference between being busy and actually working. It got me thinking about the issue.
I don’t know about you, but I can get so distracted by things that might be a good idea, but simply don’t need to be done, at least right […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

July 1st, 2008

Running My Writing Business - Another Savings Account

If I got everything my way, someone else would handle the business side of my freelance writing business… and probably do the marketing too. Or maybe not. Now that I’ve learned more about managing my money and have gotten mostly out of vagueness about my income and expense, it’s actually kinda fun keeping track of […]

By Anne Wayman -- 10 comments

June 27th, 2008

Freelance Writers and Business Cards

I just got my new business cards. The image you see here is the front. It’s the second time I’ve used the earth-from-space image. The first time I tried it, I couldn’t find anything that really seemed to say writing with vision to me so I decided I wanted to remind people we live on […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

June 19th, 2008

Collecting What’s Owed You

A client sent me to a meeting and put me up overnight in a very nice hotel. When I checked in, they asked for my credit card, which I gave them. The next morning, when I looked at the invoice which had been slipped under my door, I confirmed that the billing address was my […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

April 11th, 2008

Writers, Are You Making A Profit?

SlackerManager has a guest post called: Productivity Tip: Know When You’re In the Red The author, Sandy Renshaw, has devised a way to make sure she knows when a project is pro bono and when it’s paid.
I suggest you go further. First of all, one definition of profit is: The return received on a business […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

February 18th, 2008

A President’s Day Celebration

You just never know what an editor will do! Kelly Erb is what’s known around b5media as a Channel Editor. Editor is a bit of a misnomer because she doesn’t actually edit - all the mistakes are mine. I think of her as the head honcho of the Business Channel. By any title, and she […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

November 16th, 2007

Changes at Elance

Freelance writer and blogger Lori Widmer has posted about possible changes at Elance.
Worth a read and some link chasing.
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: business, Business of Freelance Writing, elance, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

October 16th, 2007

Freelance Writers and Time Management

I don’t know any writer or editor who, at least once and awhile, doesn’t wish for more hours in the day or days in the week. Sharon Cherry writes a blog at b5media called Startup Spark. It’s really aimed at starting a business, but I keep finding things that work for writers.
For example, she’s got […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

October 8th, 2007

Golden Pencil, b5 and the Business Channel

Way back when, this blog became part of b5’s Arts and Design channel, there were a several other blogs there about writing. It was a logical choice at the time.
Of course, things change as they always do and it became obvious that this blog, which is really aimed at the business of freelance writing belonged […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments