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Wordpreneur News - Issue 054Click here to subscribe free and get every issue of Wordpreneur News automatically by email. WORDPRENEUR NEWS How to Make Money Writing! http://www.wordpreneur.com Issue 054 - January 24, 2005 This free ezine is sent only to opt-in subscribers. If you wish to remove yourself from the list, please follow the instructions at the bottom. IN THIS ISSUE * Coming Up Next * DID YOU KNOW? El Starto Wordpreneur Edition * GENERAL Documenting Everything: Your Journal is Your Logbook * MOTIVATION Write Strategy: Think, Believe, Attack * THE JOB How to Build a Successful Freelance Career * Resources * Admin Stuff ------------------------------------------------------------ TELL YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY & COLLEAGUES ABOUT WORDPRENEUR! Forward a copy of this ezine or just go to our Tell-a-Friend page at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/taf.html ------------------------------------------------------------ COMING UP NEXT at http://www.wordpreneur.com * Book Signing: Fun and Profit for Writers and Readers * Message to Online Writers: Don't Give Up on a Good Idea * Three Ways Journaling Can Boost Your Creativity and Your Business ...and more, way more! ------------------------------------------------------------ ADVANCE YOUR CAREER! Get an accredited online degree today! http://www.wordpreneur.com/cgi-bin/pl.pl?cjdd ------------------------------------------------------------ WRITE FOR DISCUSSION BOARDS: $1200 PER WEEK... Find hundreds of freelance jobs just like these. Click below for more. http://www.wordpreneur.com/cgi-bin/pl.pl?cjfwe2 ------------------------------------------------------------ DID YOU KNOW? El Starto Wordpreneur Edition You can easily create and install your own browser "home page" with custom links you specify using our El Starto Wordpreneur Edition software for your Windows PC. Get it and use it totally free: http://www.wordpreneur.com/dl/elstarto/index.html DOCUMENTING EVERYTHING: YOUR JOURNAL IS YOUR LOGBOOK by Stephen Earley Jordan, II Category: General - http://www.wordpreneur.com/general Sailors had it for years. Great explorers had it as well. If you go on an expedition to an ancient Aztec mound, more than likely the archaeologist will have one too - so, why shouldn't you own one? No, I'm not speaking of the scurvy that plagued the sailors! No, I'm not speaking of the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot, whom explorers claimed to have seen in snowy Manitoba winters. Nor am I speaking of a lost city, which was never truly lost, but simply buried under mounds of earth and recently dug up by an archaeologist. I'm speaking of journals. Journals? Yes! Keeping a journal can be just as much of an adventure as sailing the high seas, exploring unknown Canadian wilderness or digging in the dirt to find buried treasure. Journals have been a source of reflection for centuries. My suggestion is to look at your writing career as if you're an explorer analyzing new-found land; an archaeologist digging up new artifacts and renaming them and so on... How can you do this? Well, view your journal as a logbook and document your daily happenings. Here is a suggested format for keeping your captain's log. * Read the rest of this article at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/general/journal.html WRITE STRATEGY: THINK, BELIEVE, ATTACK by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ Category: Motivation - http://www.wordpreneur.com/motivation Think of writing like karate... it's about DISCIPLINE. Writing, like other forms of art, work or talent, requires discipline. It won't ever be enough that you say to yourself that you are a writer. Only when you write and write with discipline can you call yourself one. Before you can earn a black belt in karate, you have to dedicate yourself, practice and instill discipline in yourself to learn the moves and techniques. The same goes for writing. Don't just read books. Devour them. Ray Bradbury, author of "Zen in the Art of Writing," suggests books of essays, poetry, short stories, novels and even comic strips. Not only does he suggest that you read authors who write the way you hope to write, but "also read those who do not think as you think or write as you want to write, and so be stimulated in directions you might not take for many years." He continues, "don't let the snobbery of others prevent you from reading Kipling, say, while no one else is reading him." Learn to differentiate between good writing and bad writing. Make time to write. Write even though you're in a bad mood. Put yourself in a routine. Integrate writing into your life. The goal is not to make writing dominate your life, but to make it fit in your life. Julia Cameron, in her book The Right to Write, sums it best: "Rather than being a private affair cordoned off from life as the rest of the world lives it, writing might profitably be seen as an activity best embedded in life, not divorced from it." Believe that EVERYONE HAS A STORY - including you. * Read the rest of this article at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/motivation/strategy.html HOW TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL FREELANCE CAREER by Yuwanda Black Category: The Job - http://www.wordpreneur.com/thejob [ED. NOTE: Although we don't agree with everything she says - a minimum 3-years of experience requirement is way too much - the author does provide excellent, solid advice.] In the current job market, many editorial workers have turned to freelancing as a matter of survival. I receive many queries from applicants regarding how to go about freelancing. First I will address what, in my opinion, is the single most important asset you need to build a successful freelance career. Then I will outline other necessities. Experience You need a minimum of three years (five is ideal), preferably as a full-time employee. Clients will feel more comfortable in your knowledge and abilities if you can demonstrate that you've performed your duties in the past, full-time, at an established institution. Each industry has its own "lingo". Experience in an industry allows you to understand it and communicate effectively with your clients. As a proofreader, a potential client [e.g., a reference book publisher] might say: * Read the rest of this article at: http://www.wordpreneur.com/thejob/career2.html ------------------------------------------------------------ VISIT E-FACTORY.COM - http://www.e-factory.com 100% free and useful articles on how to build, run, and grow your very own Internet enterprise! 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