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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

May 8th, 2008

Q&As for Freelance Writers

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
Asking for Pay
Manuscript Format
Why Am I Not Getting A Response?
Are The Writing Jobs You Post […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

May 8th, 2008

What I Did - Broken Appointments

A few days ago told you about a ghostwriting client who broke several telephone appointments and then requested a Saturday appointment even though I normally don’t work weekends. I asked you what you would do.
Most who responded felt there was no need to meet the client on the weekend, although one said they would if […]

By Anne Wayman -- 6 comments

May 7th, 2008

Want Powerful Writing Examples? Try a Little Romance!

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 […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

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

May 5th, 2008

Writers, Should You Work For Free?

You know, if you’ve followed this blog at all, that I’m a great believer in writers getting paid, and paid well. John Kremer, author of the excellent 1001 Ways to Market Your Books and an excellent blog on the same topic has posted a YouTube video by author Harlan Ellison called Writers Should Be Paid!
Please, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 6 comments

May 4th, 2008

Beware Of Promises… a guest post

John Clausen who owns the helpful site for freelance writers called Writing for Money, put this in a comment… but I think it’s well worth it’s very own post and a bit of time on my front page. So here it is:

My advice for new writers is to beware of “articles” that claim to have […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 2nd, 2008

Tips for New Writers

Angela Booth has posted Write for Money - Five Easy and Fun Steps for New Writers.
I don’t know if I’d call all of her five steps easy and fun, but they certainly are doable and by the time you finished all five you’d have a website and be in a good position, probably, to […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

May 1st, 2008

An Ultimate Distraction For Writers

Can you see what’s in my backyard? Yep, kittens! There are actually four of them and plus, of course, the mom. All feral at the moment, but three and maybe four of the kittens are spoken for. I’ll try to trap mom once the kittens are gone and get her nutered, then, if she’ll let […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

April 28th, 2008

The $600 Tax Rebate Revisited

Back in March I speculated about what I’d do when my $600 rebate arrived. Today, with the announcement that the first rebates were deposited today, I looked back at my post.
I was tickled to see that I managed to order a new couch and get bookcases without the rebate. But I’m still not sure what […]

By Anne Wayman -- 8 comments

April 24th, 2008

Ebook Readers - A Problem I Hadn’t Thought Of

Sigh! I suppose it should be obvious, but until I read Joe Wikert’s story called Kindle Book Conversion: One Author’s Story that I realized there would, of course, be formatting problems when it came time to get your book, or mine, into shape for whatever ebook reader I wanted to be able to sell it […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

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