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Get Things Done: Apps for Optimizing Your Writing Productivity
When your work involves tons of research, writing, fact-checking, cross-referencing and collaboration, sometimes, you can get stuck on information overload. What you don’t want to happen is to end up wasting precious time sifting through multiple categories of data in order to try and piece together a coherent picture out of it all. Add to […]
What Has Your Voice Been Telling You Lately?
It happens to a lot of freelance writers. You have content assignments lined up. You go on to create a schedule, but instead of sticking to the schedule like a fly on its nemesis, the all-mighty flypaper, you end up doing other things – click on links shared by friends on Facebook, browse blogs that […]
Why Freelance Writers Aren’t Being Paid What They Are Worth
I posted an infographic about the hidden benefits of part-time work in my other blog a few days back. One of the blog’s regular readers retorted with a comment, “I think the rates are only realistic for Americans.” While I concede that there’s truth to her words, there’s something about the comment that didn’t sound […]
Writing Productivity: How to Self-Motivate
My writing productivity has not been at par with my preset goals lately, and it’s been causing a huge strain in my confidence as an effective freelancer. A feeling that I should be leaving my current, well-paying job to focus full-time on my online writing, marketing and content development freelancing gig, especially since it offers […]