Archive for the ‘Writing Tips’ Category
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Continuing our series of short interviews with freelance writers, I picked the brain of Kristen King (of InkThinker) on the issues of queries and rejections:
What motivated you to create the InkThinker Query Challenge? What's the most rewarding aspect of it for you personally?
I wish I had paid closer attention to ...
Posted in Freelance Writing Careers, Writing Tips | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Here's a trick that just occurred to me tonight while getting the next freelance writing jobs post ready for All Freelance Writing (I haven't tried it myself yet):
1. Go to a site where you can find freelance writing jobs.
2. Search for the term "freelance writers."
3. Now, instead of just looking ...
Posted in Publicity / Marketing, Web Writing, Writing Tips | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
I saw someone on a forum giving a blogger really bad advice today - essentially that sticking a stupid Copyscape banner (like the one below) will actually somehow protect their content for them. That's such a load of BS.
Here's what sticking a Copyscape banner on your site really says:
Go ahead ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
I was tagged by Misti Sandefur of Life of a Writer to offer seven little pearls of blogging wisdom on what not to do as a blogger if you want to keep your readers, subscribers, and fellow bloggers in your network happy. So here you go... seven reasons I won't ...
Posted in Blogging, Writing Tips | 11 Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
On the writing forums, I recently asked people to share some of their portfolio tips for freelance writers to be shared here on the blog. We had just one taker, Matt Finley of A Musing Scribe. Here's what Matt has to say about writer portfolios:
"1) Let the readers get touchy ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
It's no secret that business networking is vital to the careers of many successful freelance writers. Networking is simply the act of connecting with colleagues, potential clients, or others in your industry, and those connections have a tendency to lead to freelance writing gigs; including unpublished ones.
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
As I'm in the middle of still dealing with the rip of my ChickTech.net blog, the issue of content theft and copyright infringement are still heavily weighing on my mind. So I want to continue that discussion, touching on what you can do to specifically have infringing or stolen content ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I just wanted to announce that there's an official date set now for my Chick Tech Talk show on Writing and Marketing E-books.
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
It's so easy to steal content on the Web these days that it feels like "everyone" is doing it sometimes. Whether it's through publishing your blog content from an RSS feed without consent (a debatable issue in and of itself) to blatantly ripping content from a site, what can you ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
It's not as hard as many writers think it is to get high paying freelance writing jobs. The fact is that many writers, especially new freelance writers, sabotage themselves from the start. Do you?
Posted in Freelance Writing Careers, Writing Tips | 11 Comments »
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