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Posts Tagged as ‘freelance writing’
June 16, 2008
Spend A Little Time To Research
As time goes by, I realize that freelance writing becomes a little easier. I remember one of my first gigs, was to produce a 500 word article on golf, which is a topic I know nothing about. Because I was in such a mad rush to complete the task, not only did I spend most of my time [...]
June 10, 2008
A free e-book to brush up on your writing skills
Just a little while back, I read that it’s not good practice to begin sentences with conjunctions. I remember from school days, teachers would tick off the class for starting sentences with the wrong words. Conjunctions are: and, but and because, and the word comes from the olde Latin language, to join with. I don’t know where this myth stemmed from, but I’m sure there are no grammer books [...]
May 16, 2008
Think less and write more or think more and write less?
I have to say a big up to aintgotno for making it so clear-cut. Just a simple ‘think less and write more’ was probably all the advice that I needed for the day. I found myself choked up and stressed out with thoughts about my writing, and then wondered why I wasn’t writing. Duh! Sometimes it takes another [...]
