Just like in the real world, cyberspace has started to have some issues with waste buildup.  Once pristine websites, search engine results, and collective information platforms have gotten junked up over the years, and now it seems like the valuable content out there more often than not gets lost in the shuffle.
E-Waste is a serious [...]

Tips for Finding Your Niche
Are you searching for your freelance writing niche? It took me a long time to find where I belonged in the writing world. Out of college, I explored technical writing and magazine writing. But neither option suited me. Eventually, I stumbled upon copywriting. But even that led me down unexpected paths. [...]

The eternal question of webmasters - especially freelance writing webmasters - is, “To monetize, or not to monetize?”  Adding advertisements to your site can bring in a hefty bit of extra income (provided placement and traffic is where it needs to be), however there are questions about its appropriateness on writer sites.  Today we are [...]

Sometimes it seems that the one thing we don’t have as freelance writers is job security.  Sure, we have the power to make our own schedules, work when the mood strikes and really enjoy an earning power that is only limited by our ability to crank out work - but a lot of the times [...]

In the last post, How to Stay Healthy Working from Home, one of the suggestions given was to be sure to take weekends to prevent you from getting run down.  Well, the past few days I did just that, and would like to report on what it was like to take a real weekend, from [...]

Fellow freelancers,
I know we are in the middle of our Share Your Voice series, however I wanted to sneak in a quick word about health for the home worker.  The American government has released reports that the Swine Flu (H1N1) will be more rampant this year than the last, and in light of that we [...]

When Can I Call Myself a “Real” Writer?
Though some might think a computer is a writer’s best friend, this is not the case. I don’t know about you, but doubt has been my constant companion ever since my first writing assignment. I’ve doubted my abilities, my bookkeeping, my future, and even my motivations for entering [...]