Archive for April, 2011
Should You Be A Full Time Freelance Writer?
I don’t know. Should you? The answer for each person is different. This is not a one-size-fits-all situation. The important thing is for you to do what is right for you and your own particular situation. It’s all too easy to listen to quotes and advice from gurus about jumping in with both feet, but [...]
Hello, My Name is Mark …
I’ve written quite a number of posts bemoaning the poor writing skills possessed by many who claim the name of “writer”. It’s pretty easy to do that when you’re not pointing the finger directly at one particular person. The last post by George, though, highlighted the problems faced when this issue does indeed become very [...]
What To Do When The Writing Sucks
The Editor at an organization I belong to posted a dilemma on one of the forum boards the other day. The organization is 100% ad free and does a lot of independent reviews on a variety of items that are of interest to the membership. It’s kind of a great system because the reviews are [...]
Do You Really Wanna Write? Do Ya?
In a cinematic precursor to his current real-life lunacy, Mel Gibson played a nut-job cop in the Lethal Weapon films. In his first outing as Detective Martin Riggs, he grabbed the chance to talk a jumper out of throwing himself off a high-rise. Having handcuffed himself to the potential suicide, Riggs (suicidal himself) quickly gets [...]
Thoughts on Freelance Writing Advice
As a freelance writer, if you’re looking for writing advice you’re certain to find it at every turn these days. There are literally hundreds of writing sites available and many of these are in a blog format, providing updated content on a weekly or even daily basis. For me, my email fills up nearly every [...]
Touron is Hella Funny
In early 2010, Austin Sendek of UC Davis created a petition encouraging the International System of Units to designate “hella” as the prefix for 10 to the power of 27, following “yotta” which of course represents 10 to the power of 24. For a freelance writer I must have a pretty meagre grasp of English [...]
Have You Published Your Freelance Writing E-Book Yet?
If you haven’t, then why the heck not? These days there really is no excuse for not publishing an ebook of your best stuff. It’s free, it’s easy to do and it is a great way to attract folks to you and your services. But I don’t have anything that’s book-worthy! Hell, there’s thousands of [...]
Can Freelance Writing Be Taught?
(Here’s a sensible blog from me. Make the most of it – it won’t last.) This probably seems like a silly question. To a certain extent, all subjects can be taught. However, by the time a person decides that freelance writing is a career they wish to pursue, the formal education necessary to concrete in [...]
