March 2009

Digg Your Way To The Top

If you’ve done much writing online, you’ll know how much bloggers and website owners get worked up about Digg, StumbleUpon and other sites where readers share links. They’re a big deal — after all, making it to the front page of such a site can literally bring you so much traffic that you can’t handle [...]

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The Business of Freelance Writing Carnival, Edition 61

We’ve got a great batch of posts in this week’s Business of Freelance Writing Carnival. If you’d like to submit a post or two for the 62nd edition, you can do so at Blog Carnival. Burak Bilgin presents Goals for Beginning Writers posted at Distiller’s Corner. mike lesaux presents Is A Work At Home Business [...]

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In Recognition of Ada Lovelace Day

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. If you aren’t familiar with the name, Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer — ever. In the 1840s, Lovelace wrote programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine (the first computer). Ada Lovelace Day is meant to commemorate her contributions to technology, as well as offer an opportunity to recognize women [...]

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Use Your Location to Find Freelance Work

Freelancing is all about flexibility — including the flexibility to work with clients all over the globe, no matter where you’re actually based. If you’re willing to give up just a little bit of that flexibility, though, you can often up your income. The Meeting Premium There are clients out there who will pay a [...]

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The Business of Freelance Writing Carnival, Edition 60

We have a winner for Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers: Mark, I’ll be sending an email to you shortly. We also have the 60th edition of the Business of Freelance Writing Carnival today. If you’d like to submit a post or two for the 61st edition, you can [...]

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Review: Pep Talks, Warnings & Screeds

There is no such thing as a good fiction writing textbook. I say this as someone who’s taken more than a few fiction writing classes — and has read a few textbooks on her own. But it is possible to learn from other fiction writers: not by reading a textbook, but by sitting down with [...]

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The Business of Freelance Writing Carnival, Edition 59

We’re closing in on our 60th edition of the Business of Freelance Writing Carnival — and we’ve got some great posts as a lead up. If you’d like to submit a post or two for the 60th edition, you can do so at Blog Carnival. Jim DeSantis presents Freelance Writing: A Career From Anywhere posted [...]

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Clips, Spam Filters and Headaches

One of the reasons I immensely prefer posting my clips to my own website and then passing a single link to interested editors is the dreaded spam filter. I don’t know what it is about some of my clips, but they’ve landed my emails in the spam folder on more than one occasion — that [...]

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Professional Email Addresses: A Must Have

Most of the emails I get these days from other freelancers come from good email addresses. There’s not a lot of 2cute4u@email.com sorts of addresses flooding my inbox lately. My spam folder is, of course, another story. I’m glad to see that more and more freelancers are using some sort of email address that involves [...]

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The Business of Freelance Writing Carnival, Edition 58

I’m happy to share this week’s edition of the Business of Freelance Writing Carnival. If you’d like to submit a post or two for the 59th edition, you can do so at Blog Carnival. Robert Phillips presents How to Overcome Writer’s Block posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY. Thursday Bram presents Posting Lists: An Extra Time Committment posted [...]

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