General Writing Topics
Happy New Year! How has 2010 started for you? Have you come back from the seasonal break to a fresh new batch of writing jobs or are you wondering what to do next?
It’s that time of year again in my household where we stop working and give ourselves a well earned break.
Hi there everyone; well it’s been a busy week here with lots of work for regular clients, some new work from new clients and a viral infection to top it all off with!
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If you want to earn money by writing online you need to avoid the mistakes below. I’ve been guilty of some of these in the past, back when I didn’t know any better.
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This article was originally written as part of the 100 Articles in 100 Days Challenge on Ezine Articles. I have reproduced it with some tweaking here because, while it was written with article marketing in mind, it can also help you when writing articles for clients.
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By all accounts, the answer is quite a lot.
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Hi all! It’s good to be back blogging again. I was planning to add a new post before now, but to be honest what I thought could be a slow start back at work has proved to be anything but.
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It sounds glamorous doesn’t it? The idea of setting your own hours, selecting the jobs only YOU want to do, and earning however much you want to earn from your own writing efforts – it is all very alluring.
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Grammar seems to be a hot topic for online writers. Some people are actually very picky and tetchy about grammar. If you mention the word in their presence they get very upset and angry about anyone who dares to get any of their grammar wrong. To be honest I have never been brilliant at grammar. [...]
First of all, due credit should go to my other half for suggesting that title!
This week has been a lot lighter in terms of writing work for me. It’s been of my own choice however; I have some articles and blog posts lined up for various clients so I am still busy.
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If you have been reading a lot about online writing lately, you will probably have come across the term ‘ghostwriting’. But what is it? How is it different from any other kind of writing?
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This is a question we could all do with asking ourselves – no matter what stage of our writing careers we are at. And yet it isn’t a subject that you read a lot about.
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I received a very nice email from a fellow writer earlier on today that prompted me to write this post. They pointed out the undisputable fact that magazines generally pay a lot more than many online clients…
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Well it’s been a mad month and it’s set to continue, which is why I haven’t been blogging quite as much as I would have liked of late. That writing job was successfully completed, so much so that the client has ordered more (think I may be heading for a new specialist subject there!), and I have also taken on another job requiring the writing of 164 web pages.
That’s a question most of us will ask ourselves at some point, but it was brought to my attention very sharply today when I was asked to write 70 articles by next Monday to help someone out.
