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Setting goals as a freelance journalist
How do you set goals for your business as a freelance journalist? What sort of goals are best to set? What will move your business and career forward?
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Freelance writing plans for 2017 Or how I am going to be too ambitious and shoot myself in the foot
If you have read the post on how my freelance writing went this past year, you would see that I got quite a bit lucky but also found a lot of room for improvement. The thing is, you can’t tell me that I need to improve on something because then I go get pen and paper and start planning to become better at whatever said sucky thing is. And I kind of go overboard. I would like to share this process with you so you can see how damn stupid my brain is at times and smart at other times. As my sister says “We don’t know how someone…
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Reader question: How much do I plan when I write?
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Twitter feed for the Wednesday Workshops
The Wednesday workshops have started. Refresh the page to keep seeing the latest tweets and photos. As always, please check the main conference blog for all the posts, tweets and photos. Tweets about “#ipedcon2013 OR #rockstarfreelancelifestyle”
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The 5 Important Things I Did In Setting Up This Website
Marisa Wikramanayake lists the five most important things she did when setting up her website. She is a freelance writer and editor, born in Sri Lanka but based in Australia. Her website showcases her work, provides free tips and articles and allows you to hire her to write and edit for you.
