Our last day of freedom before the feverish writing begins.

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At 4pm EST, Deb Ng from Freelance Writing Jobs will be interviewing the Craig from Craigslist. I think it’s fascinating that a dude from Frisco decided to post a few items for sale on a website, and the next thing you know it is the go-to resource for nearly everyone on the web.
From the comments, [...]

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Freelancers often just throw themselves out there, using their words as bait, hoping for a big fish.
In Jennifer Mattern’s Web Writer’s Guide, she details how to draft a business plan for yourself as a freelance writer.
Included in the list of things your plan should cover:

Your goal
Your mission
Your target market
Budget
Income projections

I will admit that before reading [...]

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You know how I was writing the other day that I was dying under Vista? Well it turns out that Microsoft has done a lot of damage to our little household with their half-finished product. We live in the country and rely on satellite internet that has a bandwidth cap. And because Vista has been [...]

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When I lost my corporate job back in the Spring, freelance jobs came my way out of a sense of pity – at first. One friend who is an author was working on a book, and needed some research done. She called me – my background as a legal assistant gave me a leg up, [...]

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As a freelancer writer, I do a lot of articles that necessitate web research. I am not an expert in many of the subjects I write about, so I pop all over the web many times in a given day. As someone who has multiple browsers open for much of the day, can I just [...]

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ProBlogger has a two part article on posting frequency and developing a posting rhythm.

There is no Right Posting Level
Start out Slow and Work Your Way Up
Monitor Your Readerships Response to Your Posting Levels
Consistency is Important

Personally, as long as I care about the subject, I don’t need to be reminded to post. Over on LadyBlog I [...]

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Really, working at home is not as groovy as I thought it would be. It’s so easy to get distracted! The dogs barking, the refrigerating offering yummy food, the sun looking so warm and… well SUNNY! How does anyone get anything done like this? I couldn’t imagine doing it if I had kids, too!
Perhaps it’s [...]

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I was up to my ears in projects this week (yay! bills can get paid!), but I will spend this weekend working on my e-book and my NaNo outline.
I admit that I’m not great at outline writing. When it comes to fiction, I have a tendency to just sit down and hope for the best! [...]

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Or so it seemed in 1996 when I bought the cute little turquoise coupe that I used to bomb around the streets of Montreal in.
And now, a week after launching Girl on the Write Freelancing, suddenly writers are peeking out of the woodwork. I get an email from old pal Michael, who I hear from [...]

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