Men With Pens

JANUARY 17, 2010

Winning in a competition is not the same thing as being creative and innovative and coming up with new ideas. However, the drive to do my best, prove myself and find creative ways to get the scoops made me a much better reporter. Also, look inside your own self as a source of inspiration too. Nathan Hangen´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

People want to see your portfolio, your testimonials, and your professional-looking website. have a gig as a blog advisor on an interent magazine for creatives. I am 100% on board with creating your own courses and creating your own ‘class projects.’ Especially since no one cares about your degree. That’s right.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

For example, hiring a creative consultant can bring fresh ideas and the alternative perspective you need to get your business from good to great. When the project is finished, if you think the price was too much for what was delivered, tell them why you didn’t see the value you expected. And as a freelancer myself, I approve!

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 20, 2009

How do you tell your clients that you need an extension on a project because you’re sick? They won’t be shocked and dismayed when you finally do announce there’s no way in hell you can get out of bed and that their project is going to be late. If a client gets sick, you can bet the project gets pushed back. Scheduling helps.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

Confidence and the lack thereof play major rolls in business… one specific example is when determining a project bid or what to charge per hour. And, to be good at it, you have to actually enjoy that kind of interaction – which many creative people emphatically do not and furthermore never will. Great post, seriously.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

When I started freelancing full time, I also started a Masters degree in Creative Writing. If you let weeks slip by without writing or without working on that one project that really interests you, find half a day each week when you can really dig into your writing. Something similar has happened with my fiction writing.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

But there is something sexy about completing a project that you’re proud of and that results in a happy client who refers you to someone else while you cash his cheque at your bank. Now, back to the current project Reply Sally B ( @snappysentences ) June 10, 2010 at 5:16 am Oh Amy I can totally relate to this post.

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Men With Pens

MAY 9, 2010

And we realized that we generally asked more or less the same questions for each type of project. Cancer Crab Reply Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) May 10, 2010 at 11:16 am I’ll be honest, I don’t have a pre-project questionnaire, though I do have one for after the project is complete. Except the times when we didn’t.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

I’ve turned down a few projects because I knew they were scams or they used unethical tactics. As a rule, I can work for about 3 hours on one project before getting a little loopy, so I move on to something else in the afternoon. James: Think back to a project when you’d done a really great job – an awesome job.

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

Cath – Writing (especially the more creative varieties) take a lot of energy, and I can sympathise with people who make excuses … but you’re right about the woman on the course; there’s not much point being there if you’re not going to write. Sarah – We have the NaNoWriMo book (No Plot? No Problem!),

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

Scared of being responsibly creative. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." - Captain Jack Sparrow Home | Services | About | Comment Policy | Disclosure | Contact Copyright © 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc. They’re all small business owners. “I’m a designer!&# URL please? Thoughts… people have fear!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

Our ability to produce creative quality on just five hours sleep is a badge of honour that’s applauded and lauded! It’s easier to get frustrated or discouraged when you’re lacking snooze-time, and you might find yourself struggling for creative ideas or feeling snappish with clients – the guys who pay your bills, remember?

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have to keep accepting these projects!” Shutting down the site Reply Learn Creative Visualization ( @learnLCV ) November 25, 2009 at 11:47 am Good reminder, I am not exercising at all. Learn Creative Visualization´s last blog. Then you are not being realistic when it comes to your business. And you can’t keep it up.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

Had I lost my creativity? Want to overcome writers block and unleash your creativity? A strong preference for internal validation is actually pretty common among artists and creative types. So I kept my problem to myself and pretended everything was fine. Except that it wasn’t. Maybe that was the answer. And we all need that.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Why you need down time to be creative Reply Deb Ng ( @debng ) December 23, 2009 at 11:19 am Happy holidays to all the pen people and the MwP community! - I come by regularly for a jump start to my daily blog, and I’m hoarding ideas for a big writing project I’m starting in January. Just because? Send wine and cheese to P.O.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. It’s long-term, it’s tiring, it’s creatively exhausting and it’s completely unpaid. It’s an ongoing press release, article marketing, a free full-page newspaper ad, it’s an interactive portfolio, etc.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 14, 2010

Like my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I start a lot of projects and then get sidetracked. Waiting until your great idea moves out of the inspiration phase before you write it down (or however else you creatively express yourself) is a guaranteed way to forget all about your great idea. You’re dead on, man. Justin´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals? It takes time, energy, skills, money, creativity and consistency to make it work. As a consumer, that bothers me.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

This person caught my attention years ago with his creative words, his ability to reach out and touch people and his perseverance. (Oh, His work and creative career stirred my curiosity. If you really, really want to invest time into creativity, you have to have money coming in from somewhere. Wait, what?!

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Has Social Media Cheapened Creative Talent? For example, we have menwithpens.ca, but we also have capturingfantasy.com They’re “related&# , in that it’s about writing, but one is about business and one is about creative fiction. That would get tired fast and your creativity would suffer! @ sized projects.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

Parenting Is A Creative Act Reply Chris Mower ( @firesamurai ) April 28, 2010 at 10:31 am Great reminder. 5 Ways to Trim the Fat from Your Next Project Reply John Collins ( @affiliatetips ) April 28, 2010 at 10:42 am Hi Taylor - I remember the first time I had a similar experience. They know you well enough to project that tone.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

Answer: I am someone who gives 110% to every project. What burnout can teach you about creativity (or what I did on my late winter vacation) Reply Giulietta Nardone ( @giuliettaspeaks ) March 24, 2010 at 9:37 am Hey Taylor, I too find that talking to folks on the phone or in person brings out the real person. "I Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Glad this is helping, and it’ll serve you as you move forward, eithe with the next draft of your NaNoWriMo manuscript, or your next project. Anything that encourages creativity (even for its own sake) is wonderful and worth supporting. Anything that encourages creativity is a good thing. Thanks all. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

I think there are tons of monetization models (and one of my projects is figuring out the essential monetization patterns for info products.) I think adsense and banner ads still work well, it just takes a little more creativity to have them work well. From The Afghan Women’s Writing Project: I Am For Sale, Who Will Buy Me?

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