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Freelance Writing Blog Tools
A nice tool to help take your online writing and blogging to the next level.
Archive for the ‘Being A Freelancer’ category
Freelance Writer Rates
Freelance writing is one of those things that attracts a lot of entrepreneurial people who are looking for a small business startup that they can launch with little investment and run on very little overhead. While it is true that little investment is required to start up your own freelance writing business, assuming you already [...]
Best Reasons to Hate Windows Vista
The Llama gets to write about why people hate Vista, and does a pretty good job…if I do say so myself 
Inverted SEO, Search Engine Optimization Backwards
Ignore SEO and keywords forever at your own peril. Follow these steps to write what you love and get the SEO and keywords to follow later.
What Else Is There?
Today, I read a job posting for writers. It read: Writers Wanted – Fiction and Nonfiction Only I couldn’t help but wonder, what else is there?
Mercenary Writer Begets Writing For Fun and Pay
When I first started moving the freelance writing business to the online world, I applied for any and every job that I was even remotely qualified for. One day, I mentioned a new gig I had gotten to my wife. After I was done telling her about it, she said, “Do you really want to [...]
What Makes Freelance Writing Hard #1
There are so many people out there who assume that freelance writing is an easy job. That fact isn’t helped by the number of websites out there who preach the same thing, mostly so that they can sell you something. The truth is that there are many parts of freelance writing that are difficult. Now, [...]
The AP Stylebook Adventure Series
So, is it open-source or open source? Missing from the pages of the Associated Press Stylebook is the correct use of the term open-source which until recently I had been using as just open source. Recently, an editor disagreed and though neither of us could find a definitive source, the editor always wins the ties. [...]
Write What You Want To Write
For the past couple of weeks now, I have had a hard time writing. Assignments that once would have flown off my desk have languished about until deadline time. Pieces that could have been written in 20 minutes have taken an hour and a half. Normally, I sit down at my desk and love every [...]
Today’s AP Stylebook Lookup
Today’s project sent me to my now well worn AP Stylebook. The question? Carseat or car seat. Spell check despises carseat (it’s underlined right now with that angry red squiggly line), but I thought for sure that was how it was used. Survey says? Oops. It isn’t in the AP Stylebook. “Car pool” is in [...]
