Me, me, me. Someone typically hard to live with because she has a ton of flaws I constantly see but sometimes forget to deal with or tend to run away from. And then I’m reminded of them when me rears her ugly head and someone notices. Me makes you forget very important things because generally …
Category Archives: freelancing
Is Escaping Reality in My Cards?
After a few years of crying over my freelance editing business and asking myself some serious questions, I’ve decided two things: one, I’m going to continue editing because I’m pretty much unemployable due to my misanthropic tendencies while working in the public and my usual thinking that management is moronic, and two, I don’t want …
Freedom Fighter
Term someone used on Google to find my blog: “Can a wuss be a freelancer?” Um, yes and no. I am a certified wuss. In fact, I said it just the other day. And I have been freelancing for five years now. BUT — and here comes the NO part — my business has not …
Tip #7: Write About What You Know
[Far Side © Gary Larson] And you thought I was going to get all advice-y on you.
Why Editors Like Me Exist
[copyright © Bill Watterson]
Hope Floats
[Sky News] I’m having a hard time thinking of things to write lately. My mind is pretty preoccupied and I’m trying to figure out how to fit in working, reading your blogs, commenting, domesticity, revamping my freelance business from the bottom up — and by that I mean from scratch, even the name will change …
early to rise
Source: Canadian Living, photo contest. Can’t find photographer anymore! Look at that cat. That is how I feel this morning. I’ve been trying to follow Dave Navarro’s advice in his series on getting up early so I can be more productive and efficient and all kinds of other great things for my business. Yesterday it …
Snobbery of the worst kind, and I mean me
While we’re talking about editors and editing, I have to add something that’s been on my mind since I started this whole gig. I don’t love my own kind. I’m quite serious and I feel just a little shitty about it. Not loving your own species is weird and betrayal-like. It feels wrong. After all, …
Heightening your textual pleasure
After over five years of freelance editing, I’m finally sitting back and taking a good look at my business (long overdue). For the millionth time this year, possibly the gazillionth time in the years I’ve been running Word for Word, I had to contact a client today about my late pay, and once again my …
changing tactics
This weekend I’ve been desperately trying to catch up on the editing time I’ve criminally wasted in my efforts to wish it would all just disappear. This, after daily whingeing about not having work earlier! But such is the nature of my freelancing life. I am either stressed about not having work and not making …