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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

May 13th, 2008

My Beef with the 80-20 Rule - a Guest Post

As freelancers, we are also business people, striving to get the greatest return on our efforts. And I think most of us are familiar with the 80-20 rule. It’s another name for the Pareto Principle, which says 20 percent of our efforts result in 80 percent of the benefit received. It can be applied in […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

April 4th, 2008

Writers! Thumb Your Nose at Naysayers

Just in case I haven’t been clear, if you want to be a freelance writer, go for it. Ignore the naysayers; it’s worked for me and it’s worked for others.
Liz Strauss over at Successful Blog has a two parter that demonstrates the point. The first, The power of survival stories, saying “damn it all” and […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

October 7th, 2007

Freelance Writers and the Fear of Success and/or Money

Over in our forum, Barb asked if I had ever written about freelance writers and the fear of money.
I hadn’t, but as I watched the thread develop, I saw some themes, including fear of success, fear of talking about money, fear of making money, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, not every freelance writer has a […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments