I make my living as a professional freelance writer. For the most part, that means that I go out, find clients, get them to hire me, do some freelance writing for them, and then repeat the process. This is a great way to make a living as a writer without starving to death while you [...]
I wrote recently about how this freelance writing blog and other websites of mine had been hit by Google Panda on the October 13 update. For those of you new to the concept, Google initiated a new algorithm early in 2011 to help improve its search results, primarily by reducing the amount of results from [...]
One Month until National Novel Writing Month. Although the concept of NaNoWriMo involves writing a novel “from scratch” beginning on the first of November, there is nothing wrong with considering what I will be writing about. I’m sure many other writers may take to the winds and follow their muse, but I do have a [...]
The mere act of writing involves a certain amount of hubris.Writing something, and particularly publishing something, assumes that what you have written is worthy of being preserved and subsequently read. In other words, your thoughts are valuable enough for others to read about them. It is not arrogance or folly, per se. After all, writing [...]
In a recent exchange with a budding freelance writer, I said something to the effect of if you aren’t writing every day then you aren’t maximizing your potential as a professional freelance writer. We were discussing the lack of updates on his writing website and my point was that by posting something every single day, [...]
Sorry about the multiple postings of today’s article. I wrote the post in Windows Live Writer and it gave me an error when I tried to publish it. I assumed that meant it hadn’t worked, and I kept trying to “fix” it. Hence the five or six repeats that went out. Now that I know [...]
Today’s post comes courtesy of the guy/gal/folks who run PoeWar.com. If you do enough online reading about writing and freelancing you will eventually come across the PoeWar site. I remember it from my early days, and sure enough, it’s bookmark resides within my oldest links. Yet, I never really seem to end up at PoeWar [...]
Testing out a WordPress plug-in I came across called TweetSuite. I does lots of different things (that list of Twitter tweets in the sidebar is one) but the main thing I am testing out is that it automatically posts a Tweet whenever I publish a post here on ArcticLlama. On one hand, this is great [...]
I actually have a pretty active freelance writing business, and while that is good for many reasons — most of them having to do with paying the mortgage and not having to go back to a cubicle — it also means that I often neglect my own sites in order to make up time on [...]
Finally getting around to claiming my blog on Technorati. Technorati Profile
Welcome to the ArcticLlama blog. Frankly, I had no plans to have a blog on the ArcticLlama web site, but it seems that there are a lot of questions out there and a shortage of good information. So, an ArcticLlama blog it is. This blog will focus, of course, on the specialties of ArcticLlama including, [...]
