Today, mother’s day has become a commercial venture, replete with over priced and unsustainable cut flowers, mountains of cards printed on non-recycled paper and questionable gifts. But it wasn’t started that way.
Mother’s Day creator Julia Ward Howe, who also wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” wrote the following proclamation, in part as a response […]
Are you a freelance writer, editor, blogger, or translator? Do you self-publish, write memoirs, greeting cards or articles on obscure science? Do you have something to say to other freelance writers, etc?
In other words, I’d love to have some guest posts for this blog. No pay, some glory and a lot of gratitude, plus links […]
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
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Why Am I Not Getting A Response?
Are The Writing Jobs You Post […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For some reason I have a real sense of TGIF today. Usually Friday’s are pretty much like any other weekday for me, but not this one.
You’d think I was taking off on a trip or something, but all I have scheduled is dinner with one of my kids and his family tomorrow, and a visit […]
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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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 […]
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