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    If you aspire to write, you should read this essay. Asimov is one of the most prolific writers ever, read this and know that, even he, gets rejections.
John Lemke

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    A detailed guide on how to become a writer and/or editor for government work.
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» Increase Your Freelance Writing Income in 5 Days : Freedom With Writing - 0 views

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  • Spend a few minutes setting up an email system that you can use to contact potential clients. The ideal system will let you contact many people at once, based on a custom list that you create.
  • you need to spend the time to create a custom pitch to that matches your potential clients very closely. Once that is done, set your email system to send the email out at 8am on Tuesday
  • look for potential network possibilities. This should only take about 5 minutes of your time. You want to check Meetup.com for both freelance writing networking as well as networking opportunities within your writing specialties. Check for local community meetings such as School board and city/county council meetings. All of these are great places to meet potential clients.
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  • oday is the day for cold calling. Most people don’t particularly enjoy this aspect of marketing but it is extremely valuable. Use the list you made on Monday and call each company.
  • By now you are getting some serious responses to your quick burst activities. So today you want to focus on social media. If you don’t already have Facebook and Twitter accounts for your freelance writing business, this is the time to set them up. You should also have a LinkedIn account. If not, set one of those up as well. Then go into the settings of LinkedIn and Twitter and set them up to update whenever you post to the associated Facebook page. Properly setting up your social media pages is extremely important; you are selling yourself. Make it look good.
  • PLEASE do not use your personal Facebook page for this. You do not want clients and potential clients to see the funny faces you made during your best friends wedding reception! Use your professional Facebook page for this and close your personal page to anyone but friends. If you are thinking it doesn’t matter, look at your page as though you were the client. That should do it.
  • Ok we are at the end of the week. You have set up an email marketing blitz, found and attended networking opportunities, written a letter to your local paper, cold called potential clients and set up your social media sites (and are updating them!) The only thing left is to update your Freelance Writing Website.
John Lemke

Freelance Writing Questions: Setting Rates - Get Paid to Write Online - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 05 Feb 14
     
    This one gives links relevant to the US, UK and Canada. Not all inclusive but worth a bookmark nonetheless.
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Why You Should Care About Google+, SEO and Semantic Search - 0 views

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  • Everything Google is doing, from Google+ to semantic search serves its mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
  • In order for Google to provide the most relevant search results, it looks beyond the keywords to find context of your query based on your connections and social signals, +1’s, shares, likes etc..
  • Google Authorship ties you to your content no matter where you publish on the web where “rel=authorship” is installed.
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  • Links send signals to Google that people like and trust your content.
  • John Lemke on 03 Feb 14
     
    A brief explanation of how Google+ factors into search in this day and age. Not only worth the read but the sources it cites are as well.
John Lemke

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    Synesthesia is a when more than one sense is evoked by a single stimulus. People who are synesthetes often have superior memory. (It can also be triggered by psychedelic drugs.) So it makes sense to incorporate it into your writing. I like the taste of the article.
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    A few habits of successful writers, one of the being Winston Churchill.
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How I Make a Living as a Writer (and You Can, Too) - 0 views

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  • If you sit down at a blank screen every day and simply do nothing then you are a writer. If you write one word, even better. Some people will disagree. Maybe you will disagree. That's fine. We also can all disagree. Meanwhile, our DNA is telling us we are pretty much exactly the same.
  • I try to read pieces or chapters in 3-4 books a day or more. I read at least from one non-fiction, one or two quality fiction, and one inspirational. I try to read at the level I want to write. I do this in the morning before I start writing.
  • Destroy every gatekeeper.
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  • Do what you want. Self-publishing simply means you write a book and you figure out how to get it into the hands of other people. It might just be you sell it on your email list. Congrats! You're then a published author. In my post "How to Self Publish a Bestseller" I write about the details and the numbers.
  • This seems opposite of what I said above. But blogging is not such a bad idea. How come? Because it makes you write every day. And it also is fun to build friends and community around your blog. But if you want to blog, don't just register a domain name and start blogging. You won't get any traffic.
  • There's a thousand ways to build community and practice writing on the Internet. Blog is one of them but there are many others. My #1 suggestion: first practice on Quora (cc Marc Bodnick) If you go there, follow me and say "Hi!".
  • If you don't write every day, you won't know what your potential skill level is. You will be producing sub-par work. And in a world where 15 million books will be published this year, your book will have little chance to shine.
  • Do the math: if you just write 1,000 words a day that are publishable then you have a book every two months. 1,000 words a day is not easy. But it's not hard either.
  • No. You used to be able to make a living writing articles. Just a few years ago. In 2005 I made a good living writing about 3-4 articles a day for different publications while I was running my fund and before I started and sold Stockpickr. But those days are over. People just don't pay for content. And there are too many writers. It's a supply and demand thing.
  • ou have to write more than one book. And for most people, you have to write dozens of books.
  • John Lemke on 19 Feb 14
     
    A great article of advice from a published author.
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7 Stellar Examples of Convincing Copywriting - 0 views

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    One of the reasons writers must read is to learn from example. The same applies to the specialty of copywriting. This post list seven great examples.
John Lemke

Why (and How) You Should Change Up Your Routine, Even if it's Working - 0 views

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    Some people have a hard time changing routines. Others seem to do it naturally. This Lifehacker post covers why it is a good idea to mix things up a little and how to do it.
John Lemke

Storyville: Three Essential Books On Writing | LitReactor - 0 views

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  • John Lemke on 10 Feb 14
     
    The first one on the list is my number one pick. I can't wait to read the other two.
John Lemke

Why the Freelance Dream of Working in P.J.s is Total B.S. - 0 views

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    I couldn't agree more with the author. You do not get to "set your own schedule"... the work schedules your life and the sooner you accept that, the better off you will be.
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  • The earliest meaning of anecdote in English is “Secret, private, or hitherto unpublished narratives or details of history.” Later, the word came to have its present meaning: “The narrative of a detached incident, or of a single event, told as being in itself interesting or striking.”
  • The adjective anecdotal dates from the 18th century. It can mean simply “pertaining to anecdotes,” but in modern usage it is often used in the sense of “unreliable.”
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    This article lists a number of ways to capitalize on selling the rights to your work.
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  • Silly is a synonym for ludicrous; using one to intensify the other is overkill.
  • Ridiculous seems to me to be less judgmental than ludicrous. Something ridiculous provokes laughter because it is incongruous. For example, a man wearing a lampshade for a hat presents a ridiculous sight. Something ludicrous is both incongruous and contemptible. For example, a nineteen-year-old with the full use of his legs riding on the shoulders of his bodyguards while touring the Great Wall of China presents a ludicrous sight.
  • John Lemke on 18 Feb 14
     
    This is a pet peeve of mine, especially when someone says "ludicrously silly".  (For it is the same as silly silly.)
John Lemke

A Tale of Two Kates: Examples of Very Different, but Effective ABOUT Author Pages - 0 views

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    What readers want on your about page.
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Hyperlink with care, website owners urged :: Freelance UK - 0 views

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  • Website owners should use hyperlinks carefully, such as by checking they are not linking to subscription-only content and that the terms of the site linked to permit such an action.
  • Under the directive, right holders have the power to control the online communication to the public of their works – the so called "communication to the public right".
  • “The door was left open to find the right infringed where for example the hyperlinks point to material only available via a subscription.
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  • The court also did not address
  • if the website linked to expressly prohibited links or required prior permission in its website terms and conditions or what if these terms prohibited commercial re-use.
  • John Lemke on 07 Mar 14
     
    Sad that we have to worry about sending other sites traffic.
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