Overcome Writer’s Block with these 3 Creative Exercises

March 28, 2011

I envy writers who say they never get writer’s block. Are they lying, or are there really people out there who are never at a loss for words? Sadly, I can’t put myself in this category. I have a crazy life filled with work, family, animals and a thousand commitments. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by [...]

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Reality Check: 7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Quitting Your Day Job

March 25, 2011

Before I launched my freelance copywriting business, I spent three full months planning my escape from corporate America. (Four months if you count the month I spent over-thinking whether I should quit my day job . . . or not.)  I read Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Writer cover-to-cover. Twice. I built my web-based writing portfolio. [...]

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The Billable Hours Freelance Writing Myth

March 23, 2011

When I was preparing to launch my freelance writing business, I figured I could work part time and easily replace my full time income. After all, if I planned on charging an hourly rate that was at least twice what I earned as a marketing manager, simple math would point me to a 20 hour work [...]

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Freelance Writing and Poverty Pay

March 22, 2011

A recent Google Alert delivered a freelance writing job to my inbox. This “copywriter wanted” ad was posted on the ScriptLance bidding site and the pay was “up to $25.” I don’t know what was more laughable – the fact that someone would place this ad or that, when I clicked through to the ad out of [...]

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5 Ways to Turn Your Freelance Writing Experience into a Copywriting Cash Cow

March 21, 2011

 “I’m a freelance writer, but I don’t know anything about copywriting.”   I recently had a conversation with a down-sized corporate administrative assistant who was trying her hand at freelance writing. She told me that, although she was a freelance writer, she didn’t know anything about copywriting. (I take that back. She did know one thing about [...]

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