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The Journey Begins…
We’re at T-3 hours, and I still have to straighten my hair, do some laundry, pick up adapters and print all my travel info. It’s just like the Amazing Race! Thanks to everyone for getting me the info I...
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Phoneless, Phoneless (Moonlight Sleeping on a Midnight Lake)
When wi-fi, 3G and/or USB modems were MIA in Africa, I used my iPhone as a personal hotspot to keep up with our blog—and ran up a $2,900 bill in the process. Miraculously, in an unprecedented and...
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Hey, Writer Girl
I’ve been going going going all week and today it finally caught up with me. The repetitive writer pain that started in my wrist and moved to my shoulder has now jumped body parts. I awoke with pain in...
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Is Fiverr.com a conflict of interest for freelance writers?
Just read an article on Write to Done about publishing ebooks. I had never heard of Fiverr.com, which was recommended as a place to get a book cover designed for a mere $5. I checked Fiverr out and...
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Writing Hangovers and Post-Project Breakdowns
When this post by Steph Auteri popped up in my Feedly queue, my immediate reaction was: ”Wait… Not everyone breaks down after finishing a project?” The post-project breakdown is so common in my...
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How to honor the Curator’s Code on Pinterest
For weeks, everybody’s been talking about the Curator’s Code. Introduced by Maria Popova, editor of brainpickings.org, the Code is essentially a nifty way to cite sources. And unlike, say, APA, it...
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How Myers-Briggs changed my freelance writing business
From biological anthropologist Helen Fischer’s Why Him? Why Her? to 5 Love Languages, I love a good personality test. But my all-time favorite is Myers-Briggs. I first took the official version of the...
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Two nifty tools for freelance writers
Even though I’ve been writing for years, I often have trouble visualizing how long a story needs to be. Because editors—unlike Harry Potter’s Hogwarts professors who assign homework in parchment...
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And the winner is… Noisette Academy
Last week I randomly discovered Noisette Academy’s lovely site while trying to find cute social media buttons for my sidebar. Though founder @Isa Maria had me at Pantone, I was delighted (and...
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Four cheap, green ways to research new magazine markets
It’s easy to spend a lot of time and money researching the magazines you want to pitch, especially when you’re first starting out. You feel like you need to read a million back issues cover to cover...
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