Business

What Do You Need to Move Forward with YOUR Writing Business?

Last month, I took a month off from most of the work I do for clients because I needed some time to get my head screwed on straight. I love writing and the fact that I make a living from lining words up in a row never fails to amaze me. But I needed to [...]

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Why, Yes, I Have a Company

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For over a year, the business cards I hand out have said, Hyper Modern Consulting on them. It’s been part of my transition from ‘Thursday Bram, freelance writer to the stars’ to ‘Thursday Bram, business owner extraordinaire.’ That’s not the whole picture of my company: I established an LLC early last year to protect myself [...]

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Still Not A Video Game Blog, But…

…But I want to talk about a writer building a career that lets him work on pretty much any project he wants, including the odd video game. If you read any web comic at all, chances are pretty good you’ve run across Penny Arcade, the brainchild of of writer Jerry Holkins and artist Mike Krahulik. [...]

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7 Tips For Creating A Productive Writing Workspace

I’ve talked to freelance writers who sit on their beds to write, take over the dining room table or head out to cafes. But I’ve always found it easier to work when I have my own little office area — even when it was just a desk wedged into my dorm room. Most of us [...]

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Considering Freelancing From Your Cubicle?

There are many stories of writers making it big by writing when they really ought to be doing other things. Anne McCaffrey, for those SFF buffs among us, wrote her first novel in Latin class. Writing in class can get you a few sideways glances, but what about in your cubicle? If you are considering [...]

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Are Freelancers Small Business Owners?

Day after day, I see opportunities targeting small business owners: chances for mentors, networking opportunities, chances to build business. I don’t necessarily recognize those opportunities as relevant to my work, though. It’s not necessarily that I can benefit from whatever is being offered — it’s that I just don’t think of myself as a small [...]

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A Tip For Microsoft Word

I know most of the editors that I work with prefer to get articles emailed to them as Word documents. With a Word document, you can be sending along a lot more information than you might think. Try checking the properties of the documents you have saved. Depending on what information you used to register [...]

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