When your work involves tons of research, writing, fact-checking, cross-referencing and collaboration, sometimes, you can get stuck on information overload. What you don’t want to happen is to end up wasting precious time sifting through multiple categories of data in order to try and piece together a coherent picture out of it all. Add to […]
Archives for February 2014
On Giving Up and Starting Over: This Is Me Stepping into WAHMhood
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably already finished just one article in eight hours and felt bad about it. The fact that it’s almost a thousand words long and required a good amount of research is, I believe, not so much the question, especially if you’re trying to make a living out of writing. […]
On Skills and Ladders: 5 Characteristics to Succeed as a Freelancer
Many people I know didn’t start out as full-time freelancers right out of the gate. Most of them started their freelancing careers as side hustles, some as hobbies that blossomed into money-making ventures. This makes a lot of sense because freelancing, unfortunately, isn’t for everyone. And diving into the freelancing pool without first testing the […]
Hold Your Horses, People. Guest Blogging for SEO Is NOT Dead! Spamming Is.
This post is in reaction to a discussion over at Estine Muki’s blog. Remember when Jackie Chan was rumored to be dead? Or how Justin Bieber already died three – or is it four – times? Turns out these two are still well and alive, and going about their lives in their usual celebrity flair. […]
6 Ways to Warm Up When Your Writing Motivation Is Freezing Cold
You know you’ve got some serious writing to do. But for some reason, you’d like to do something else other than writing. Yesterday, you’ve already done the same, and if you’re not getting that butt off the couch or those fingers punching the keys in record time, you’re sure to lose a client, your biggest […]