The Renegade Writer

Create a Video Vision Board to Keep You On Top of Your Freelance Writing Goals

By Linda Formichelli

Karen Cioffi’s guest post this week, 7 Steps to Freelance Writing Success Through Positive Thinking, got a great response! I can see this idea resonates with many of my readers.

Karen’s step #2 was “Put your vision into words and other visuals.” For me, that visual is a video — and I wanted to …… Click here to keep reading…

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Jan 31, 2013 Cool tools, Motivation

Last Chance to Join the Freelance Writers Den!

If you’ve been interested in joining Carol Tice’s Freelance Writers Den — which includes goodies ranging from an active forum to a job board to free webinars — the time is now. The doors close next Friday, Oct. 28. (Full disclosure: That’s my affiliate link.) I think Carol has as many members as she can …… Click here to keep reading…

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Oct 21, 2011 Cool tools

11 Tips for Getting the Most out of Writer’s Market

I answer your burning freelancing questions on the blog. If you have a question, e-mail it to me at lindaformichelli@gmail.com. Have a lot of questions? Consider signing up for a phone mentoring session.

Steve Sears asks: how about a post on the specific benefits of Writer’s Market and using it properly?

Thanks for the great suggestion, …… Click here to keep reading…

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Jan 4, 2011 Advice, Cool tools, Magazines, Marketing

Gist: A Cool Tool for Freelancers

I recently read a great post by writer Thursday Bram called Why Writers Need CRM and Why I Use Gist. Gist is a free online contact management tool that’s in beta now. It can import your contacts from your e-mail applications, LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, and more.

What’s really neat about Gist is that it brings together …… Click here to keep reading…

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Oct 15, 2009 Cool tools, Marketing, Query letters

Recording Interviews on Skype

My new office doesn’t have phone service (because I’m too cheap to buy it), so I’ve been looking for ways to record interviews with my iPhone. The solutions I’ve read about sound not-quite-reliable to me — also, I have the cheapest iPhone plan, meaning I don’t have many minutes.

My writing buddy and fellow FLXer Elaine …… Click here to keep reading…

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Jun 15, 2009 Cool products, Cool tools, Interviewing

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