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Friday, February 1st, 2008
This month's challenge is to set up a professional site / portfolio for your freelance writing work (or to improve your current site if you already have one, and if you feel it's needs some touching up).
I'm not going to walk you through daily step-by-steps this month like with the ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
If you haven't been poking around the comments here at AFW, you may not know about my upcoming monthly writing challenges in 2008. So here's a bit of background on the first two upcoming challenges:
January: E-book Writing Challenge
In January, you'll be challenged to write an e-book in 14 days (the ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
It's not always easy to stay motivated as a writer, while at other times the words seem to just flow naturally. How can you harness that kind of motivation to pull a little bit of it up whenever you need it? A motivational list may help.
This week, create your own ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
The new year is approaching faster than I'd like to think, so this week's writing challenge is about getting your affairs in order to more effectively grow your business next year. It's time to evaluate your progress and rethink your freelance writing rates.
Has your freelance writing career been growing satisfactorily, ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Querying publications and websites for freelance writing jobs is a good way to get writing gigs to help pay the bills. Sometimes you'll find writing jobs that need to be filled right away through job boards, freelance sites, or classified ads. What do you do when there aren't any immediate-need ...
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
In this week's weekly writing challenge, you're going to look for ways to make yourself a more marketable writer. Think about some of the following things, and choose at least one area to start improving:
Would additional credentials make you a more marketable writer in your niche or industry? If so, ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
This week's writing challenge is all about helping you to earn more money. Too many writers get themselves stuck in a single or limited revenue stream model. This means that if one model fails them (demand drops, their site ads get banned, etc.), they're left without a backup. Yet writers ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
It's easy to get stuck in a certain way of working. Sometimes our methods can become stale and negatively affect our productivity as writers. So this week's challenge is about scheduling, and how mixing it up once in a while can keep your work fresh.
If you think you're already working ...
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
This week's writing challenge is for fiction writers, and aimed to help you create more authentic settings for your stories, using a free and easily-accessible tool.
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
It can be a common misconception that being a freelance writer is an "anyone can do it" kind of career. I'd imagine most of you reading this blog know that's simply not true. A successful career as a writer means that you have to do a lot more than just ...
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