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[The Freelance Life] Can You Quit Your Day Job?
I get this question so often. People are miserable with cubicle life, itching for a more flexible schedule and ability to be outdoors in the daylight hours, and they want to up and drop everything and...
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[The Freelance Life] Writing Your Business Plan, Part 1
The Brilliant Business Plan Top in Gold, by Mod Cloth. Previously on The Freelance Life, we talked about useful resources and what you need to have in place before you quit your day job. But as I...
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[The Freelance Life] Writing Your Business Plan, Part 2
Today we’re going to talk about part two of your business plan: Financial Goals. This is where sh*t gets real, people. Break out the calculators! (I am so amused by me talking authoritatively about...
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[The Freelance Life] This Will Either Make Everything Better or Everything Worse
I’m going to interrupt the Business Plan Writing series real quick here, because I want to show you this. Brace yourself. It’s a lot. Yes. I’m posting that as big as Dashboard will let me — if you’re...
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[The Freelance Life] Finishing Up Your Business Plan
Alright, alright, it’s finally time for us to finish up these business plans that we started oh so long ago. The good news is, if you’ve already written up your professional goals and financial...
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[The Freelance Life] On Getting Paid (And Knowing Your Worth)
When you’re starting out as a freelance writer (or really, in any creative/media-driven career), this really annoying thing happens: People ask you to work for free. A lot. I don’t know too many...
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A Day in The Freelance Life
Co-worker Walter gets on top of some filing. Introducing a new feature for The Freelance Life: Day in the Life snapshots! I love when other blogs do these — especially So How Was Your Day?, which...
View Article[The Freelance Life] On Writing for “Exposure” and What We Need to Do About It
Here is a rule that I have about email: Once more than five people send me a link to something, I have to really read it and Have Thoughts. This week, it will not surprise you to hear that the link I...
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[Freelance Life] A Day in the Life of Amy Palanjian
So now that you’ve seen how I work the Magic Hour and spend too much time talking to my cats, it’s time for our first official peek at a day in the life of another freelancer. Kicking things off is...
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No, Editors Won’t Steal Your Ideas
I did a fun interview last month with Grace Bello, who is a journalist, copy writer and writing teacher who writes for the Freelance Strategist. The (very smart!) piece is now up over here. If you...
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[Freelance Life] A Day in the Life of Cheryl Lock
One of my goals now that I’m back from baby leave is to get this series up and running again. I’ve long been super fascinated to hear how other writers spend their days — and since my typical day is...
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And A Few Others.
I don’t always do a blog post every time I post a new article to my portfolio — either because I get busy and forget or because I’m behind and adding a bunch at once and don’t want to overload you with...
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[Freelance Life] A Day in the Life of Alice Oglethorpe
Name: Alice Oglethorpe Job Description: A former magazine editor, Alice is now a freelance writer and editor. She’s had work published in Real Simple, Self, Shape, Whole Living, Better Homes &...
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[Freelance Life] A Day in the Life of David Moscrop
I’m excited to include David in this series because I know a lot of you guys are part-time freelancers, fitting your writing in around other jobs and projects, and he has an interesting take, plus some...
View ArticleWanna Work For Me? (Part-Time Writer’s Assistant Needed)
This idea has been brewing for awhile, but something about this week has inspired me to make it happen. Maybe it’s that back-to-school energy that still inspires me to buy new pens and notebooks every...
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When Your Baby Won’t Eat (The New York Times Magazine)
I’m telling the story of how Violet learned to eat (again) in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine. The piece went online yesterday, and I’ve already heard from so many families struggling with the...
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What I’m Reading (And Writing. And Eating.)
First, a little book update: Last week, I reached that stage of research where you (or at least I) start to despair that none of it is making any sense and everything I thought I knew was wrong. I’ve...
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It Cost $2.5 Million to Keep My Child Alive (Slate.com)
I’ve got a new piece up on Slate on how repealing the Affordable Care Act could impact families like mine (yes, even with employer-sponsored insurance). And it will do even more damage to poor...
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The Healthy Size Debate
Some Thoughts on What Makes a “Healthy Size.”I’ve been writing about the Health At Every Size movement for several years now. (Pictured above is a feature I wrote for Marie Claire in 2014; here are...
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One of my goals now that I’m back from baby leave is to get this series up and running again. I’ve long been super fascinated to hear how other writers spend their days — and since my typical day is …
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