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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

June 1st, 2008

Rules? What Rules?

It probably isn’t written down anywhere, but it seems like how-to-market articles are supposed to be, if not dull, certainly straight forward. The same thing can probably be said about reviews of websites. After all, the goal is serious… to help you, the webmaster or web writer, create traffic. Serious business requires serious writing, right?
Well, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

January 15th, 2008

Honor Life’s Interuptions, and Keep Going

John Lennon said Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. I got to thinking about this when I found myself feeling singularly uncreative this morning.
It took me a few minutes to realize I was feeling anxious about a meeting with my accountant. In this case, that’s all it took, and […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

December 18th, 2007

Powerful Verbs Will Improve Your Writing

Got to playing with my feed reader and was intrigued with Terry Whalin of The Writing Life and his headline, Use Power Verbs In Your Writing.
It points to a regular podcast about marketing called The Wednesday Minute. I’m going to let you go to the post and click over to the podcast yourself. Give it […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

August 16th, 2007

Sending Out Ships – A Guest Blog

Marketing and sales people will tell you it’s all about making the contacts. Freelance writers, too, are often told it’s all a numbers game: the more queries you send out, the better chance you have of nabbing a writing job.
I call this sending out ships. And yes, it is difficult to do. […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments