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When you tell people you are a freelancer, way too many of them have that image in their brains of you in a hammock in a beach house watching the waves crash in some tropical paradise, drink in your hand idly typing on the laptop across your knees. Yeah, right. Freelancing is a lot of…
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Unless you’re a narcissist or a massive lover of words (guilty), writing about yourself is one of the toughest things to do, whether you’re introducing yourself to a new set of employees or employers, redoing your LinkedIn page or resume, or simply crafting a 150-word bio for your company’s website. A recent client of mine…
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In 13 days, the Twin Miracles Editorial family will be at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in Anaheim. We have a four-hour window during which time I am highly likely to hug every single costumed employee, droid, spaceship, and creature in the place. We’ve heard the wait time for Smuggler’s Run, the Millennium Falcon…
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One of the things I miss most about print journalism is holding the physical representation of all your hard work in your hands. True, paper fades over time, but seeing the articles, headlines, photos, and design of newspaper sections and magazines that I had produced always gave me an extra feeling of accomplishment that the…
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An unexpected trip to the vet has had fantastic results for a freelancer’s best friend.
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Full disclosure: I’ve written two blogs for the manufacturers of Spike email, including a review of it, but after trying it out for a week it’s become a part of my desktop. Spike calls itself conversational email, and that term makes total sense. Your email conversations look like text messages, down to the “…” on…
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When you get going as a freelancer, you’ll eventually hit a lull. Or two. Or seven. When work dries up, a natural reaction is to hunting for more, leaving your traditional venues behind and trying to get as much coverage for yourself as possible. When this happened to me during 2017, I took a suggestion…
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What is it about a coffee shop that makes it so much easier for me to focus on freelancing? Why can’t I get that level of concentration when I’m sitting in my home office with an unlimited amount of music at my fingertips? I don’t know the science behind it, but I was able to…
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I had an email this morning from Upwork celebrating my 5-year anniversary as a working freelancer on the site. I took a look back on my epic list of complete contracts and sure enough, on January 16, 2013, I finished my first-ever job for the website formerly known as ODesk. Those were some humbler times…
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I’m doing a series of feature stories on residents of several senior living communities over the next couple of weeks and have decided to highlight some of the truly remarkable people I’ve been lucky enough to talk to. A couple of weeks ago I interviewed a Texan named Clay who had flown in the Vietnam…
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