Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Fill in your information, where you worked, and there you go – freelance jobs would come to me. I soon learned there was more to optimizing your profile than just listing your past work. It’s a fact that more and more freelancers are looking for work. It was a game-changer for me. copywriting).

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Nick Ursborne

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

You do the work. As a copywriter, the least satisfying type of writing for me is when I follow some kind of template or framework. I’m following the rules, but I don’t feel that I’m putting any of myself into the work. I feel my work matters. The work you did for my company had a huge impact. Academic writing.

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Enchanting Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

It didn’t work for me. I made peace with my inner critic , and I discovered several tactics that help me start writing more promptly. Or, when I’m working on a bigger project, I know what the next section should contain. I focus on the work in front of me. Just summon your willpower.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Portfolios are up-to-date and show all your writing work. Remote position – even though it’s a freelance position, it’s also a remote position, meaning you work for the company instead of collaborate with the company as another business owner. It just doesn’t make sense to me. Then there was Blogging Pro.

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Elna Cain

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I wrote to gift guides for the holidays and they were bylined by me and I even had an author page too. You let your website copy stay the same even though you picked up a new service or skill and your portfolio page stays static without any new client pieces because…well you’re busy with client work!

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And, sometime in June, my inner critic tried to tell me writing was a waste of my energy. You’re burnt-out, she told me. I asked her to stop scaring me and to allow me to keep trying. Because writing makes me feel alive, and it allows me to be my best self. Writing helps me formulate my ideas.

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Elna Cain

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But landing writing work is happening to me now and it’s a new thing. This year, though, I’m networking and prospecting, and clients are emailing or DMing me on LinkedIn. I’m doing discovery calls next week with two leads, and I’m excited for the work in January.

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Freelance Magic

APRIL 8, 2024

It’s a perfectly plausible thing for a brand to do, but it was a kick in the teeth for me. Why you need to market your freelance business The hardest part of freelancing for many freelancers is finding enough work to tide them over. The example above is just one of the times that’s happened to me. What is active marketing?

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

It’s never worked for me. A Hemingway bridge keeps momentum going, reduces procrastination, and even helps me write faster. Let me explain … What is a Hemingway bridge? Building bridges is not just useful for novelists; it works for any creative endeavor. And it’s sound advice. Also, I build bridges.

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 9, 2023

How much “pocket money” I received depended entirely on how many hours I had worked on the farm that week. As I grew into my teens, I took on harder work on the farm and my hourly rate increased accordingly. They didn’t have to work for it at all. That was quite an interesting moment for me! It was a gift.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 16, 2023

As an example, here’s how I’ve been using ChatGPT to help me update the coaching page on my website. Here’s the question I asked, and the suggestions it gave me. Next, I wanted ChatGPT to help me make sense of a collection of coaching testimonials I’ve received over the years. But it does feel better than working alone.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 27, 2024

While I wont be sharing where to find work, this newsletter will share the case studies and challenges I will do throughout the year like pitching challenges, social media challenges and anything my subscribers want me to do. But Before We Do, I Have a New Newsletter I recently created a newsletter called the Freelance Creator Files.

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Enchanting Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2023

But it doesn’t always work like that. But, somehow, her writing always sounds too academic, too formal, too difficult, too stuffy, too boring. What can she do? How to write conversationally Some say … Just write like you talk. A draft often sounds writerly, and you have to massage it until it becomes more informal. Can you, too?

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Freelance Magic

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Over the past 10 years, I’ve worked with all sorts of companies in all sorts of industries. I moved to Spain to reduce living costs and gave myself a year to make it work. These early gigs not only helped me gain valuable experience but also allowed me to gradually refine my craft and build a portfolio that showcased my skills.

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Rachelle Gardner

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Candice Marie Benbow is a writer who has written for various outlets including ESSENCE, Glamour, Religion News Service, VICE, Andscape at ESPN and the Me Too Movement. Having been her agent for several years, I’m excited to work with Candice in a new capacity and I’m confident she’ll build a successful client list and serve her authors well.”

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Elna Cain

JUNE 3, 2023

But here I am, trying NOT to pull my hair out since I want to work with this client, and they are a popular SaaS company too. They asked me if I could write a post for them, and I said yes. The next day, they gave me more details (the brief), and I was excited to let them know when I would have the draft in. That’s why.

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Agency Content Writer

JANUARY 24, 2023

There were signs and people who I met that fundamentally changed me, and the business, in good ways. What specifically did I like about working with them? Which opportunities could I take advantage of while working on the business and with current clients? There were good clients and not-so-good clients. Hired an accountant.

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Freelance Magic

DECEMBER 6, 2022

My inbox was full of people trying to sell me something and the posts on my homepage all seemed to be lightly veiled humble brags. This gave me a framework to generate ideas from (which I’ve compiled in my handy LinkedIn prompts for freelancers downloadable – you can get it here if you haven’t already!). You can thank me later.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2023

In her book The Art of Memoir , Mary Karr discusses the importance of revision , and she shows us a rough draft of a sentence from her memoir Lit : Mother drove me to college in our yellow station wagon, and every night we stayed at a Holiday Inn, where we got drunk on screwdrivers. Do you ever wonder how others edit their writing ?

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Nick Ursborne

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I’m me… the good, the bad and the less-than-perfect. We can outshine the work of AI by writing with a high level of emotional intelligence. To make this kind of approach work for you, it’s necessary to go all in on Emotional Intelligence. As a freelancer, I am my brand. Human, through and through. It just shows I’m real.

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Enchanting Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2023

The idea of time surfing appeals to me because it creates a sense of movement, fluidity, and freedom. It makes me think of Easkey Britton’s memoir on big wave surfing. Could Looman’s method of time management make me as intuitive, focused, and calm as a her? Just typing the phrase makes me cringe.

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Kayleigh Moore

MARCH 9, 2023

Allow me to introduce you to Professor Laura Bandy. She has had work published in Soft Skull's Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and Ninth Letter, among others, and currently has work in Alluvian. For me, great writing is that which lingers long after I’ve put the book down.

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Kayleigh Moore

JANUARY 30, 2024

Fun fact: The email address I use for my reporting work receives somewhere between 50-200+ pitches EVERY SINGLE DAY. Despite those hardworking people’s best attempts at crafting a compelling pitch for me as a journalist, I almost never even bother to open most of the pitches that come my way. But you know what? Tip #2: Be CONCISE.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 5, 2023

I never understood this idea of: even though you have the TIME to do the work, you may not have the ENERGY to do it. All that COGNITIVE LOAD drains me of my creativity. You want work-life balance and to be as productive in your day without losing your passion for writing. That’s a tall order for a freelance writer.

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Enchanting Marketing

MAY 9, 2023

Only then, start the revision process : See what’s pretty good already—that’s what you can keep See what’s redundant—that’s what you throw out See what needs improvement—that’s what you start working on Writing is not just typing words and sentences. No, my fears are a sign that I’m doing something that matters to me.

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Nick Ursborne

JANUARY 4, 2024

Let me give you an example. Here’s an example I worked on with GPT-4. Feels clunky to me. Which comes first, AI or EI? Do you start your writing project with AI, and then tweak the outputs to make the copy more emotionally intelligent? That’s how most people do this. And it’s how I do it myself, some of the time.

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Elna Cain

MARCH 19, 2023

I’m still actively landing writing jobs, and I need my writing portfolio online to act as a tool to help me land amazing jobs. If you’re new to freelancing, having proof of your skill is crucial in landing consistent work. This helped me go from making $100 a post to $1,000 a post! But, not anymore. Yes and no.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 24, 2024

When you’re reading your own words during an editing pass, your brain works against you in two ways: Your fears can take hold. This technique has made my writing process so much faster and more fun that I teach it to every writer I work with. If this sounds like torture—please, hear me out. Voilà, Siri is now reading to you.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 23, 2024

I’m sitting at a table talking to a friend when they tell me this astonishing, deeply compelling story about what happened to them when they were 15 and they had committed a murder, and yes, they did it, and yes, they served time. Because what my friend gave me was a private confession. And still, the story haunts me.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 3, 2024

KRISTEN TSETSI: Your foundation as an artist was voice: radio, voiceover work, etc., Now, before you call the white jackets to put me in a padded room, allow me to say I have always had an overactive imagination.) David and wife, Tammy, enjoy travel, books, films, and hiking in and around their home in San Diego.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 17, 2024

But I would argue that boundaries are equally important to consider as they relate to the relationship we have with ourselves (the relationship from which all others are based)—and also, how they relate to various other facets of our lives, like our work. We think most often about boundaries in the context of relationships with others.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 13, 2024

The project encompasses public libraries, authors, curators, and readers working together to connect library patrons with great self-published work, primarily in fiction. But your works seem quite different than hers! Tell me about your path to publication for the Elemental Artist series. and Canada.

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Freelance Union

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The biggest thing I’ve had to do is take some time to define my own version of success and what that looks like for me. I took some time to figure out who I wanted to work with and the tasks I’m best at completing. It was an endless struggle for me and one that still catches me by surprise from time to time.

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 27, 2024

Even though everybody told me agriculture was a tough niche for a freelance writer. I tried to work for farmers running small farm businesses, sort of like my farm. But just like I couldn’t have afforded to hire a content creator for my own farm business, neither could they afford me. I looked closer.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 21, 2024

How can you design a business that works for you and your books over the long term? That was easier for me, less of a challenge. Thorn: I have probably, including short story collections, probably 30 books , which for me is a big catalog. How can you build a creative, sustainable career as a ‘mid-list' indie author?

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Of course there is no such thing as a perfect sentence, but the temporary confidence instilled by thinking that I have crafted one is what allows me to tackle a project that will consume my waking and sleeping hours for the next year or more. Five or six hits every morning keep me flying through the hours. Pull ashore. Have lunch.

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Freelance Union

APRIL 9, 2024

These protections include the right to a contract, prompt payment within 30 days of completing work, and the right to double damages for non-payment. We took a huge step in February of 2023 when we passed similar legislation in the City of Los Angeles, but it only applies to work performed within county limits.

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