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  Can You Operate a Freelance Writing Business in a Vacuum?

  2302 readersOne of the things that you most often hear from bloggers in the freelance writing business is how important community is. I’ve even blogged about this myself. In recent days, however, I’ve been wondering what the true benefits of community are, and whether or not they really help your business. I’d like to suggest

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  Introducing the Like button at Facebook!

  2616 readersJust a quick heads up. Today, Facebook decided that “Like” is a better wording choice than “Become a Fan.” Interesting news because we JUST discussed this here; with me and others noting that, “The wording, “Fan” is off-putting.” In fact this wording is one major reason I haven’t felt compelled to create a separate page

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  Borders Employees Celebrated on Twitter

  8795 readersWhen the news broke yesterday that Borders Group is preparing for liquidatation, hundreds of readers voiced support for the approximately 10,700 employees about to lose their jobs at 399 stores around the country. Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah created a #ThankUBorders hashtag so publishing professionals, writers and readers can thank these employees for their literary service. Below,

• A Summer in Europe: Finding Meaning in Florence

  4899 readersTherese here. I’m so happy to present today’s guest to you, Marilyn Brant, who’s here to tell us about her experience in making setting pertinent to character growth. Marilyn’s third novel, A Summer in Europe, was just released this past Tuesday. If you love books that plunge you into place, know that Marilyn is a

• Just Call It Freaking “Green” Already

  3084 readersTherese here. I’m especially happy to present today’s guest. Keith Cronin is not only a nearly published author and prolific, witty and wise commenter here at Writer Unboxed, he is also the winning bidder of the Red Cross auction package fo...

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  What the Freelance Writing Business Community Gives You that No One Else Can

  2181 readersI asked the question last time whether or not you could operate a successful freelance writing business in a vacuum. I talked about the three major benefits of being part of a freelance writing community that are often touted: socialization, education and networking. I also pointed out how you can get all three of those

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  Author Outreach from CreateSpace: Pitch 2.0

  8522 readers Last week I had the good fortune to be invited to participate in Pitch 2.0, the first-ever community outreach event on the part of CreateSpace, Amazon.com’s print on demand division. (Disclosure: I write articles for CreateSpace’s community forums as a freelance writer.) Actually CreateSpace is a lot more than print on demand, since they also offer publishing

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  Grammar hypocrisy for the win?

  1244 readersOn the message board of a Facebook group complaining about Facebook’s use of “unlike” as a verb: Free advice: if you’re saying that you’re in support of grammar because you refuse to use the neologism “unlike”, then you really oughtn’t to use “win” as a mass noun right beforehand. Also, gloating that 16 people joined

• Can Editing Be Fun? Maybe.

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