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Free Ebook: Time Management for Writers

The second of the four free ebooks I’m creating is now available! This ebook covers time management strategies that will help you make sure that there is room in your calendar for your writing. I’ve written a lot about productivity (several of my clients have been productivity blogs) and, as a result, I’ve tried a [...]

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Review: 73 Ways to Fire Up (or Just Fire) the Muse

I write a lot. There are weeks when I feel like I do absolutely nothing beyond dream up new article ideas and then write them. That can be a bit wearing and I can’t afford writer’s block. To combat creative fatigue, I’m always on the look out for a little inspiration. Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen’s ebook, 73 [...]

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My Latest Ebook: The Freelance Writer’s Guide to Passive Income

As a freelance writer, there are days when I feel like I’m banging my head against the wall. No matter how many new clients I land, there’s an upper limit on how much I’m going to earn. There are only so many hours in the day and, honestly, I’d rather not work all of them. [...]

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Review: The Urban Muse Guide to Online Writing Markets

When Susan Johnston offered me a review copy of The Urban Muse Guide to Online Writing Markets, I got pretty excited. Part of the reason was that Susan is a phenomenal freelancer, with bylines all over the place. But there’s another reason — she was writing specifically about online markets. I like print markets as [...]

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An Ebook Launch From the Inside

Today, my new ebook, “Discover Your New Job Online,” goes on sale at Lifehack. While I’d love it if you purchased a copy or passed the news along to someone else interested, this post is really about how I got to this point: what happened to get the ebook ready to go and the decisions [...]

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Review: The Winning Proposal

The number of clients that turn to bid sites to find freelance writers is huge — and it continues to grow. Freelance writers have to know how to handle bid sites, even if they don’t depend such websites for the majority of their work. The sites aren’t difficult to understand. You just put in a [...]

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Do You Have to Have a Client to Make Money?

Freelance writers bring in the majority of their income by working with clients, earning money for the hours we spend on specific projects. But clients aren’t the only way to make money — and I don’t think we should rely entirely on them. Writing as a Product The client-based business model relies on the fact [...]

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Review: The Principles of Successful Freelancing

There’s a lot of information out there on how to start freelancing. For some new freelancers, though, hunting down all that information can be a bit time-consuming. That makes an ebook like The Principles of Successful Freelancing, by Miles Burke, a great resource. Burke started from his own experience as a web designer — he [...]

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Review: The Weekend Writer

Not all freelance writer are in a position to go full-time, a fact that Denene Brox’s ebook, The Weekend Writer. In fact, the number of people who freelance on the weekends makes up a huge percentage of freelancers — and many don’t plan to eventually move to freelancing full-time. It’s a question of what works [...]

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Day 20: Offer Resources to Your Clients

As writers, the idea of away our writing for free can be a bit of adjustment. Once you’ve gotten used to the idea of offering up a little bit of free content, such a newsletter or a blog, it gets easier. If you’re willing to take that free content a step further, you can get [...]

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