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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

March 25th, 2008

We’re On Another List

Am I the only one who remembers The Mikado, a light opera by Gilbert and Sullivan? Probably not, but when I saw The Golden Pencil is on yet another list, the song, “I’ve Got A Little List” came to mind.
This time the list is from (on?) The Writers Resource Center and John has posted March […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

February 24th, 2008

Sunday Linkin’ - Five Freelance Writing Blogs

A roundup of interesting links on various freelance writing blogs:

Copyblogger has Three Great Resources That Won’t Cost You a Dime
Freelance Switch has a post called Interview with Linda Formichelli — Stretching Her Creative Paws which details how she got published in over 100 magazines.
Deb Ng over at Freelance Writing Jobs has a list of what […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

December 30th, 2007

What? Don’t Edit Your First Draft???

Eric, over at Common Sense PR stopped me cold with this headline: Don’t Edit your First Draft
You can imagine what I thought, can’t you? I was wrong!
Go on over and read the post, then come back and tell me how many people you know who can’t get passed the first chapter, or even the first […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

December 3rd, 2007

Marketing Yourself

Lori Widmer who blogs at Words on the Page, waxes a bit nostalgic as she remembers finding writing work when the ‘net was new. It’s all a way of introducing her new series about finding writing work and marketing yourself.
The first post is Marketing 101: Finding the Clients and it’s definitely worth a read, maybe […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

September 21st, 2007

Being A Hero For Yourself

Mark Silver, business consultant and writer has a post on his blog called Making your heroic choice. He quotes from an interview by Maya Frost with author Sarah Susanka.
Sarah talks about how she got a book written while she had a fulltime job. Her secret? She made a twice-weekly appointment with herself to write, and […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

July 27th, 2007

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Blog

John Kremer has a blog! Why does this please me? Because John wrote 1001 Ways to Market Your Books which is a gem, even though no one has a prayer of using all this tips.
I also heard him speak, and enjoyed him thoroughly, so I’m glad he has a blog. On July 18 he pointed […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

July 15th, 2007

Blog Writing Proposals

Angela Booth has some interesting links including one to an article called You Need A Blog and I Can Write It, apparently also by Angela.
Her suggestions match my experience – keep those proposals short! I’d add that you should also keep in mind your proposal is a sales tool. The goal is to sell you […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

July 10th, 2007

I Want Some Guest Bloggers

One of the great things about blogging is you can tell the world what’s going on with you. Often I’m able to gin up a post or two just based on whatever it is I’m working on at the moment.
On the other hand, the prospect of coming up with two or three posts a day […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

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