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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

June 30th, 2008

No Clue

You’ve head me say it before - they are upgrading the electricity on my 1920ish cottage… it’s a fair drama for sure. I’m one of four, that is part of 10.
The next step is to “cut over” to the new box and this takes at least two agencies… the city and the electric company […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

June 10th, 2008

Freelance Writers - On-site vs. Off

Jennifer Williamson who owns her own writing service and blogs about it all at CatalystBlogger recently took a temporary full-time, on-site writing job even though she’d promised herself and the world she wouldn’t ever do that again.
She tells the story in a post called: On-Site Writing vs. Freelancing: The Showdown
As she points out, it doesn’t […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

June 6th, 2008

Look For Writing Work Regularly

Eldon Sarte, creator of Wordpreneur.com has a nifty post called: Establish a “Looking for Freelance Work” Routine
He’s absolutely right! It’s one of those things I do automatically enough I hadn’t even thought of writing about it. There’s some excellent how-to that make it worth your time.
Write well and often,

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By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 21st, 2008

Freelance Writing Jobs - 75 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs

Wow! We’ve got 75 Writing, Blogging, Editing and Translation Jobs today.
There may be a couple of employers who have posted different ads in different places for the same job… if I can’t tell for sure, I opt to post rather than miss one.
Write well and often,

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By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

May 6th, 2008

Writers, What Would You Do? Broken Appointments

I’m going through one of those periods that astrologers lay off to mars in retrograde… lots of smallish things going wrong, and a couple of larger ones too. I won’t go into all the details, but I’m also having trouble with a clients, and I’d like your advice.
The first is a smallish contract for a […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

April 17th, 2008

Creative Ideas Are Easy!

Ricco, over at CopyBlogger.com has a nifty short post called: An Easy Way to Come Up With Creative Ideas. His method will work for sure.
What I’ve always said is that writing ideas are everywhere! The trick, of course, is to hone them so they work.
But you knew that.
Write well and often,

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By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

January 25th, 2008

Copyblogger’s 5 Step POWER Method

Brian Clark who does such a great job over at CopyBlogger, has managed to boil his years of copywriting experience down to 5 simple looking steps: Prepare, Organize, Write, Edit, Review
For sure he knows good simply copy writing isn’t simple, but the way he’s broken it down does give a newcomer to the art […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

December 27th, 2007

Top 10 Posts From Top 10 Writing Blogs - 2

Okay, I started reading the other posts at Top 10 Blog Posts for Writers (The Best From The Best in 2007!) with the idea I’d pick my favorite. Not possible.
The first one on the list is 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer by Copyblogger Brian Clark.
It’s a great list, and in truth […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

August 10th, 2007

Writing With Hemingway’s Rules

According to Copyblogger, Ernest Hemingway was given four writing rules when he started as a cub reporter. They’re good rules and Copyblogger not only makes cogent comments about each, you get additional links as well.
Take a look.
Write well and often,

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