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How Freelance Writers Deal With Aggravation

March 10, 2010

I equate working as a freelance as living the good life. For one, you work at home, or anywhere of your leisure. Another, you keep your time, provided you meet whatever quota your client has for the day/week/month.
However, it can’t be helped that setbacks will appear every now and then. It can’t always be good; [...]

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How To Write Engaging Blog Posts

March 5, 2010

Engagement is one of the strong points of social media. It gives you the opportunity to make your readers feel valued. As blog owner and brand manager, it’s your job to make sure that followers feel engaged with each post you make.
You must be wondering, what will you get if you exert extra effort in [...]

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6 Tricks In Getting Inspiration Back

March 3, 2010

When you write too much, you sometimes find yourself looking at the task as, well, a task. You look at it as your bread and butter that you tend to lose your grasp on the one thing that got you started into writing in the first place – inspiration.
I can’t say it’s that surprising, considering [...]

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3 Common Mistakes Freelance Writers Make

February 13, 2010

I remember when it was my first time taking on a freelance job. I was nervous and apprehensive. I actually made a lot of fumbles. I either charged too high or didn’t really get to do what was needed.
Luckily enough, I learned from those blunders. Hopefully, I can help prevent you from making the same [...]

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Say No to Stagnation

February 8, 2010

What’s the biggest hurdle bloggers need to overcome next to writer’s block? It’s stagnation. It can be quite disheartening when you find your blog stuck with the same conversations and the same people day in and day out.
You know, there are ways to get out of the rut that you feel you’re stuck in. Shake [...]

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4 Blogging Basics To Bring Back Our Sanity

February 6, 2010

Blogging is so much fun. It’s so enjoyable that most writers, me included, get carried away with the things we write that we lose track of the basic stuff that should already be second nature to us already.
Yeah, even if you’ve been blogging for years, there will be things that you might overlook. So, let’s [...]

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How To Avoid Being Swallowed By Writing

January 13, 2010

I won’t deny the fact that writing is a great way to earn money on the side. If you have a day job to keep, taking on a writing job on the side doesn’t really interfere with it much because you can do your writing during your free time.
However, some people find the fact that [...]

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The Value Of Opinions

December 15, 2009

How many times have you written something for the sake of getting a conversation started as opposed to just stating what you have in mind? Personally, I haven’t the slightest idea. But what I think is that the availability of different tools that allow us to express our ideas has created a culture of being [...]

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Do You Still Have The Pulse Of Your Readers

December 12, 2009

Have you read a paragraph that started out clear and to the point, only to find yourself lost a few sentences later and back on topic again and lost again? I have. I can’t say I’m not guilty of this myself. I tend to babble on about stuff when I’m in the mood without even [...]

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Be Close Enough For Them To See

November 22, 2009

If there’s one thing I learned about social media, it’s that you converse to other people through your knowledge and interaction. It’s not just one or the other, but rather both things combined.
It’s not just about how you interact with people, but what you impart with them in that interaction. It’s not just about being [...]

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6 Tips That Work To Recharge Your Creative Juice

November 19, 2009

Writing blog posts isn’t as easy as it seems. With writer’s block constantly getting in the way, you’ll find that there will be times when you don’t know what to write about.
Sure there are lots of topics under the sun that you can talk about, but when you’re writing for a corporate blog, you’ll often [...]

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Breaking Free From Your Writing Slump

November 7, 2009

It’s inevitable for writers to experience a sort of slump at one point of their career or another. Even the most famous of writers have experienced this, so you’re not exempted.
It’s not so much as finding yourself unable to write, but it’s more on how your writing has become a bit stagnant for you and [...]

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5 Lousy Writing Habits Your High-School Teacher Taught You

November 1, 2009

Everybody has their own standards of what good writing is. You can ask an English teacher this question and get an answer along the lines that good writing is one that passes the standards of a grammar Nazi, or something that resembles a literary piece.
But then again, not everybody sees writing that way. For some [...]

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