Archive for January, 2008
By the way, one piece of advise about getting testimonials: When you have a happy client, ask immediately for him to write a blurb you can use.
While this post is about fiction writing, I think it contains much truth about commercial writing and how a real professional will go about doing his job for a client. Go read John Scalzi’s blog entry where novelist Marcus Sakey confesses, “I don’t have big ideas.” What he says is quite insightful for anyone [...]
The Mad Russian knows my work and decides to pay me a compliment. For the record, not only did I not pay him, I didn’t even ask him to write those nice things.
Here’s an interesting post on figuring out your hourly rate for writing. It’s ancient history in blog years but it is new to me.
I’ve received a great opportunity. Read about it here.
I don’t read this blog for GTD stuff, but I thought this entry was well worth pointing out. Make sure the items on your t0-do list are doable. Learn from her meltdown.
I mentioned here that simply offering educated literacy means you can save people time–people whose time is worth a great deal and will pay you for saving it. I wrote this to especially encourage beginners to be willing to start out without lacking confidence. Even beginners have something valuable to offer.
But that’s not [...]
That’s how I would summarize, “Want to Boost Your Writing Productivity? Have a Baby!” by Michael Stelzner. Definitely worth thinking about. I you know you have a limited time to work in, you will tend to be lest wasteful with it.
Thinking about my post on the problem of trying to make money writing articles and my follow up on how much to expect from how-to books, I want to say something more (or more specific) about why writing can pay and why a pastor needing side income might want to consider this line of work.
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