One of the things I truly love about freelance writing is my ability to go shopping at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, or maybe just after lunch on Thursday. If you haven’t guessed, I truly dislike traffic and hoards of folks in stores.
The news this morning is full of parking lot counts and interviews with harried shoppers who started at 4 in the morning! Four in the morning to get a widget on the cheap? Not my style. Not even for a real bargain on a book – not me.
But, it is the day after Thanksgiving and along with …read more

Freelance Switch has a good post called: The Power of the Pre-Write: 5 Things to Do Before You Create Your Freelance Business Website. While I don’t much like the term, pre-write, the planning the article suggests makes sense, and the tips can be used to tune up your website as well as getting ready to create one.
My favorite sentence is “Make sure to inject keywords—but not to overdo it” under Get Noticed. Since you’re selling yourself as a writer, writing clearly is probably the most important thing you can do. Forcing keywords into any block of text may get you …read more