Thanks, everyone, for nominating us as a top writing blog over at Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers blog. For the second year running, we made the top 10! Congrats to all the winners:
Copyblogger: As the undefeated champ, this blog has held the number-one spot for three straight years! The baby of Brian Clark, this …
Sep 24, 2008 Blogging
This post is by guest blogger Michelle V. Rafter, owner of the fabulous WordCount blog. Thanks, Michelle!
Last September I was getting ready to start writing again after spending most of the previous seven years at home with my kids. I was totally out of touch with the freelance world and way behind on the subjects …
Sep 22, 2008 Advice, Cool tools, Networking
A great tip if you hate going through your stories and marking them up for magazines’ factcheckers: annotate as you write your story. All you need is a word processing software program that has a footnote function. Here’s what you do:
Open a document and start writing. Every time you write something a factchecker will question, …
Sep 18, 2008 Writing
So many people have asked me for phone mentoring that I’ve finally decided to offer this service. After spending a few days with coach Monique Parker at the Yoga of Writing Retreat in New Mexico last week, I determined that I want to help writers in a more personal way than I can through my …
Sep 17, 2008 Classes, News you can use
Well, the troops have really mobilized over the last week for our freelancing colleague, Lori Hall Steele. Right after I posted last week, three amazing freelancers, Kristen Hains, Jane Boursaw, and Rachel Weingarten, put together a website for Lori’s cause.
I had suggested a blog-a-thon for Lori’s benefit and am thrilled so many of my writing …
Sep 15, 2008 Writing
