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Continue reading →: my 7 writer’s resolutions for 2013
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney For years, I avoided making resolutions. Then last year, when my soda intake was up to five cans a day, I made a deal with myself: I could get a new Xbox 360 console if I went 100 days…
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Continue reading →: 6 things I learned in my first 6 months as a freelance copywriter
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt Six months ago, I went from life as a corporate copywriter to life as a freelance copywriter. And I’ve learned a few…
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Continue reading →: How to Weed Out Low-paying Freelance Clients
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. – Woody Allen You are re responsible for looking out for your own freelance copywriting business, especially when it comes choosing clients. Ultimately, you determine which clients, projects and companies to target, but we can all agree that we want…
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Continue reading →: How to Be a Better Writer
Practice isn’t the thing you do when you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. – Malcolm Gladwell Depending on your muse to make you a better writer is too iffy. Good writing takes practice. To be a better writer, you need to practice better writing. There…
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Continue reading →: 6 Things to Remember When You‘re Afraid of Making Mistakes
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. – Lois McMaster Bujold, American Sci-Fi Fiction and Fantasy Author I start this post by noticing that I’ve been inconsistently formatting my lede quotes here…

