A lot of new writers ask me what supplies and equipment you need to get started as a freelance writer. Here’s my list for the first-timer:
A laptop. You want to live the freelancing lifestyle, working wherever you happen to be? You’ll need a laptop, preferably with wireless Internet access. I have a MacBook, which I …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 15, 2008 Advice, Cool products, Cool tools, Organization
I’ve been noticing a lot of freelancers complaining, some bitterly, about Peter Shankman’s Help a Reporter Out service, also known as HARO. The common theme of complaints is the volume of off-target responses reporters get from potential story sources.
(For the record, I don’t know Shankman, I’ve never used HARO, and I rarely use Profnet, another …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 12, 2008 Cool tools, Sources
Having trouble getting motivated to do your work? Here are seven ways to boost your motivation and finally finish those queries and assignments.
1. Motivation doesn’t make you act…action makes you motivated. If you’re lolling around on the couch waiting for motivation to hit before you write a query or research an article, you’ll be on …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 11, 2008 Advice, Observations, Self improvement
I’m not a big reader of essays, but earlier this year I was pointed to an essay at the Washington Post written by Lori Hall Steele, a freelance writer I know from Freelance Success. By the end of her essay, my heart felt as if it were going to break in two. Go ahead. Read …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 10, 2008 Help us!
Courtesy of WorldHum, I chuckled this afternoon over an article in the UK’s Telegraph, which tells us which English words sound the ugliest to Italians.
Topping the list was “weekend.” Those crazy Italianos are kidding, right? Out of all the words we Anglos wield, the Italians alight on weekend? (OT, but I love how the British …… Click here to keep reading…
Sep 10, 2008 Observations, Personal yammerings
