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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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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 […]

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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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