6 Lessons from 6 months of freelancing

I had not realized it until my good friend KC brought it up last week: “You’ve been working freelance for more than six months!” she exclaimed. “You’re now a regular! Continue reading →

Featured Freelancer Ariel Price: “If I were not an editor, I’d be miserable”

I’m starting a regular post in this blog and I’m calling it “Featured Freelancer.” For many of us who are new to this work-from-home thing, freelancing can be lonely, so Continue reading →

Following My Dream

They say when you want something badly, the universe will conspire to make it happen. One of my mini-dreams has come true. I’ve always wanted to go back to feature Continue reading →

3 Reasons for Writing a Memoir

In this age when people around you are freely sharing daily tidbits of their lives on Facebook and Twitter, should you even attempt to write your own memoir? Bernard Selling’s Continue reading →

Shangri-La Boracay Needs a Writer, Quick

This question from a job posting caught my eye: Are you Shangri-La? I wonder what the person who wrote this job ad was thinking. Does Shangri-La (proper noun, the hotel, Continue reading →

Do You Work in Your Pajamas?

I was reading a newsletter from this up-and-coming freelance marketplace and the testimonial of a contractor caught my eye. When asked what the best thing about working from home was, Continue reading →

Writing Bravely

Writer’s Digest Fred White said it best:  “To be a writer means to take risks, putting yourself and your ideas out on a limb, making yourself vulnerable to criticism, maybe Continue reading →

Freelance Lessons and Resolutions

And so the year has passed and gone. Now that things are back to normal after the chickenpox, I am belatedly sizing up the year that was and making my Continue reading →

Pinteresting Things

What I have been up to–when I’m not writing or planning newsletters or watching Gossip Girl: Ooohing and aaahing over people’s pins on Pinterest. “Pinterest?” you say. Yes, Pinterest. It’s Continue reading →

Writing Battles

I can forgive ego if its vastness is commensurate to one’s talent. But I just cannot put up with aspiring writers who display such arrogance when their work is simply Continue reading →