It’s that time of the year again, folks – time to deprive yourselves of sleep and sanity, to be replaced with copious amounts of coffee. It’s time for the National Novel Writing Month- NaNoWriMo.
I have taken part in NaNo every year since 2004, but only ever met the challenge that first year. The idea is to [...]

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Controlling Google is like bossing God around – it’s an arrogant thing to think you can do, and it won’t work anyway. It’s like Al Gore telling us we can control the weather. Seriously, you don’t actually believe that, do you? 
Google – like God – is all-powerful and more than a little scary to us [...]

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Sorry to scare you, but it is. Which means you’re going to need extra money for all those annoying holiday incidentals. And if you freelance, times will be lean from mid-December to mid-January, as clients are focusing on their own holiday events.
Have you ever thought about writing an e-book? No, not fiction. They don’t sell [...]

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Ugh. I fell ill last week. Really, really, hospital ill. And that sucks for me, but it also sucks for my clients. Being the sole proprietor of a freelance writing business means there’s no partner or secretary who can grab my address book while I’m being rushed away by ambulance, and give my clients a [...]

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Interesting story from Silicon Angle, about the Washington Posts’s new policy for social media use by staffers.
Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used to tarnish our journalistic credibility. This same caution [...]

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I’ve blogged about Ali Hale’s great Staff Blogging Course in the past. Three of the last four blogging gigs I picked up were thanks to the tips in her inexpensive, downloadable course.
For some reason though, she wasn’t in my Google Reader. Odd, considering I have about 120 writing and marketing blogs in there.
Anyhow, I’ve finally [...]

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