As we learned last week, there are lots of great formatting tricks you can do with your blog posts if you know a little HTML. There are also a lot of cool things you can do even if you prefer not to mess around with code. Rich text editors (RTEs) are becoming more and more [...]

If you hadn’t guessed from my Write for Magazines article, I’m looking for new ways to get more work.  I actually just landed another job, but I’m in a trial period at the moment, so who knows if it will work out.  Something I’ve always been interested in, like writing for magazines, is grant writing, [...]

Hey Freelancers!
Earlier today, I spoke with my friend Liz who works for the internet marketing firm Vertical Measures and she told me that they are looking for new writers!
I’ve been writing with Vertical since March, and I have to tell you they are one of my best gigs.  What they do is create online content [...]

Whether you’re working on your own blog or Web site or posting to a client’s site, having a few HTML tricks up your sleeve can help when it comes to getting everything formatted the way you want it. Though updates in Web publishing tools have made it easy to post Web content without knowing HTML, [...]

Last week I wrote about magazines and how to break into them, and Greg Horowitz from Media Bistro wrote a great comment about the Avant Guild.
It got me thinking; as a fiction writer, I’m part of certain groups like the SCBWI because of the great advantages to joining them.  I never really considered, however, that [...]

If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, you may not have considered the need to learn HTML. Isn’t that something programmers use? Well, yes, but chances are you’ll be writing a lot of Web content, and that means being directly involved in a Web development environment. Much of your work may be ghost-written articles [...]

This is actually a field I’m looking to break into myself, so A) this is not a how to article, and B) I would love –LOVE!–to hear your experience in the field.  What this article will be, however, is a bit of a compendium of all my research here to date.
So first, I wanted to [...]

Hey Freelancers!  Just wanted to let you know that our sister site, The Life Uncommon, has a new article up called Everything You Need to Know About SEO: Part I that breaks down the complicated and convoluted concept of SEO into something readable and actionable.  I know many of you have websites/blogs, and thought you [...]

The other day I was thinking about the differences between all my clients. I have a handful of clients who pay me $15 for each assignment, which is the same payout as Demand Studios. Now, I know writers sometimes complain about the availability of assignments on Demand, but I usually have no problem finding [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote about lawsuits against bloggers, and it’s something that admittedly terrifies me, so I want to discuss a few more lawsuits that have been brought against bloggers.
As a blogger, I know that I am only as good as my reputation.  Knowing this, I guard it well, and anything I don’t [...]