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Book Review: The Perfect Board
August 5th, 2008 |Knowing how to balance a checkbook provides us with an important life skill. A person who can’t balance a checkbook (or these days, reconcile a credit card as few write checks) will struggle to ensure s/he has enough money to pay bills. Not everyone needs to understand how a board works, the process for running board [...]
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Links: 2008-08-02
August 2nd, 2008 |192 Creative, Smart and Clever Advertisements Anagram Genius, Instant Anagram and Instant Rhymes Four Jugs and a Writer’s Tricks I Don’t Care About You (Not me, of course! Loves ya bunches!) Negative Self Talk for Writers: I need to [...]
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The Freelancing Flexibility Advantage
July 30th, 2008 |A previous blog entry discusses Freelance vs. Full Time Writing. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been discovering a big benefit of working as a freelancer. My mom role collided with my freelancer role when my son’s medical challenges erupted. Not to worry — he’s fine. I don’t mind talking about it, but it doesn’t [...]
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Great Conference! Now What?
July 28th, 2008 |I went to a conference in Austin this past weekend for leaders of an education organization. I lucked out that the first speaker made an important point for all of us to remember. A teacher goes to a conference and picks up great ideas to take back to her classroom. She gets home and puts all [...]
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Links: 2008-07-25
July 25th, 2008 |9 Ideas for a More Creative and Effective Brainstorming Process Driving Traffic Using Smaller Shots of Power Personality Page: Character Traits for Writers The ‘Get It Done’ Challenge for Freelance Writers Which Comes First, Your Book or Your Business? [...]
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The Easy and Hard Way to Start a Blog
July 21st, 2008 |In all these years, I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything about starting a blog. Someone emailed me asking how to get a blog and start blogging. So here you go. There’s an easy way and there’s a hard way. The Easy Way Here you just fill out a form, make a few choices, and you’re in business. [...]
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Links: 2008-07-18
July 18th, 2008 |Merriam-Webster releases new words to its Collegiate Dictionary including… Air quotes: My brother makes fun of me whenever I do this — which ain’t often. Edamame: What took so long? Fanboy Malware: Yuck, but at least we all know [...]
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Business Client Gift Ideas
July 16th, 2008 |I wanted to send my clients a little something as a thank you now instead of waiting until holiday time. Every day, I’m grateful for them and I want to show it. But what? I don’t want to send food especially since I’m in Texas. Besides, you never know who has what food allergy. Searching for [...]
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Freelance vs. Full Time Writing
July 14th, 2008 |Deb Ng no longer works as a freelance writer and has a full-time gig. However, she still works from a home office and doesn’t sit in meetings or watch presentations that bore. The differences between full-time work from home and freelance work from home … Hours: Freelancers have more flexibility in the [...]
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Links: 2008-07-11
July 11th, 2008 |The cost of writing fiction versus nonfiction Three things to consider when deciding how long your posts should be 100 useful web tools for writers Slate even has a reading list. Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs [...]
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