Archive for June, 2011
Hepl!
I am allowing my blog this week to be used by someone who contacted me recently in search of my help with freelance writing. His name is Conrad Blatterstein. Over to you, Conrad. Giterengs, I want to tarts with a sorty. It saw no my tenth brithday that my pranets dolt me I had a [...]
Freelance Writing Resources
Working as a freelance writer, stuck in front of the computer for hours on end can be tough. Seems like you’re all alone in the great big world. In front of you sits a portal to the entire rest of the world. This world contains a cornucopia of resources to help you through your freelance [...]
A Time to Write
I had a blog all ready to go until I read the latest offering from Tumblemoose. I now feel compelled to say something more than just a comment at the foot of his post. First of all, I don’t think for one second that writing skills are a “use it or lose it” affair. The [...]
Do your writing skills ever go away?
In the last six months or so, my writing has been dwindling. I find that more and more I am second guessing my writing. I write a lot less than I did even a year ago and lately it seems that maybe the chops have fallen to the wayside a bit. I’m a bit unsure [...]
Enough is Enough
In the acting profession, the old adage is that you need to be in work to get work. In other words, people will give you more work when they see what you can do. There’s also a large element of bandwagon-jumping involved; people scrambling to employ you before someone else does. That’s why certain faces [...]
Know Your Limits
A lot of folks who get into freelance writing think that the sky is the limit. If the grammar is good, the prose is readable, the voice is engaging, then everything will fall into place for a long and fruitful freelance writing career. It’s a nice thought but it’s not exactly steeped in reality. Limits [...]
Internet Killed the Writing Star
The Buggles wrote a little ditty back in 1979 called “Video Killed the Radio Star”. It bemoaned the coming age of music videos, portending a career death to all those singers and groups who had once made their living from the radio. Stupid song, really. The singers and groups all inevitably ended up making music [...]
