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Freelancing: It’s Not Enough to Love the Writing

By on February 21st, 2013

If you’re anything like me, you love to write. If you didn’t, you probably wouldn’t have chosen a career in freelance writing. But it’s not enough to love the writing. You also have to love the work. No freelance writing business will succeed on writing alone. You have to network, market your services, maintain a website or portfolio, and handle basic administrative and financial tasks on a regular basis. Fortunately you don’t have to let those other work-related tasks hold you down, pulling you away from the writing you love so much. Balancing Writing and Running Your Business The real key is …

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Guru.com–Do Not Do That Guru Unless You Do It Well

By on April 23rd, 2010

In this series, we personally test traditional online freelance marketplaces to share first-hand experiences and honest assessments of marketplaces and resulting jobs, as many freelance writers turn to these outlets to find writing gigs. You can read all the posts in the series here. I have a very short update this week. Very short. So short that I am going to fill much of it up with mysterious sentences and white space. But it’s not my fault this update is so short. It’s the fault of Guru.com. Understanding Guru.com Like the now ruinous Elance, Guru.com is a bidding site. It …

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Could Accountability be The Key to A Successful Freelance Writing Career?

By on March 12th, 2010

I’m on a diet. Have been for, oh, about 7 weeks now. I’ve lost 7 pounds. Yeah, no, trust me, I’m going somewhere with this. The reason I’m on a diet is because I have an accountability problem when it comes to food. Generally when I want to eat something bad I come up with some kind of reason that I should eat it. “I worked hard today” “I did laundry.” “I had a difficult phone call.” “It’s raining.” You name the situation and I can turn it into an excuse to eat something terrible. But for the last 7 …

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