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A Writer’s Life

Elance vs. oDesk Review: A Freelancer’s Perspective

August 6, 2010

As a freelance writer, there is one activity that takes up as much of my time as writing does and that’s looking for work. Once you find work, your next concern is whether or not you’ll get paid. And if I do get paid, how long will it take? As a freelancer, there are numerous [...]

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Glad I Saved My Textbooks

July 22, 2010

I just closed my literature book from high school.  Yes, I still have it because I had to buy it.  It was for AP English and I’m sure it wasn’t cheap because it’s about six inches thick.  I’ve actually got a few textbooks that I’ve saved over the years between high school and college and [...]

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Everyday

June 3, 2010

There’s a few things that I do everyday and it pretty much goes like this: Wake up with TJ going “Dad!, Dad!” Pour TJ’s milk Make coffee Fix TJ’s breakfast Check email Answer email Check Facebook Check The Pioneer Woman’s blog Forget what I was doing Drink more coffee Check that TJ hasn’t thrown his [...]

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Crazy Month

February 27, 2010

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks since the Super Bowl. It’s been a crazy month.  My husband finally started wearing something other than Saints gear as well.  He has almost enough to make him a whole week and maybe a little longer now that we’ve got our Super Bowl Champions t-shirts in.  He claims [...]

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Why Don’t People Respect Writers?

January 6, 2010

I don’t know if it was the invent of outsourcing or an increased need for writers that understand SEO, but somewhere along the lines, somebody decided that us writers could be talked to and treated like sh*t. I just canceled a project on a buyer because of several reasons and one of them being that [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions – That are Going to be Kept this Year!

December 27, 2009

Another year will soon be behind us and you know what that means… New Year’s Resolutions of course! Now, I typically try not to be cliché and say that I’m going on a diet like everyone else in the world, but the fact of the matter is that after four years of working from home [...]

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You Can’t Please Them All

December 17, 2009

Just as in life, you can’t please everyone as a writer, even sometimes when you’ve worked with the same client in the past. This is something that you just have to learn when you’re business for yourself and you make a living writing for other people. Sometimes your style is just way different than their [...]

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Why I Don’t Write Academic Papers

December 9, 2009

I could actually really summarize this in one sentence – “I did my homework in college to get my degree, you can do your own homework too.” I could add to this by saying, “Sorry you have a full time job and you’re a parent, but you chose to go to school, so do your [...]

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An Unpleasant Experience

December 8, 2009

I guess the roughness of this morning begins with the fact that I stayed up way to late last night watching a movie that wasn’t all that great in the first place. In fact, I don’t even remember the name of it! Then my son woke up at 7:30am and dad is a little sickly [...]

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Why Writers Deserve to Get Paid

November 14, 2009

As a freelance writer and the owner of a writing company, I spend a lot of time looking for work.  What I’ve discovered as a writer is that a lot of people simply don’t want to pay what your service is worth.  There are literally people out there that budget only $5 per article and [...]

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