A Little Summer’s Almost Over Weekend Link Love
August 24, 2008 by Deb
Filed under Freelance Writing
by Deborah Ng
I’ve been a little remiss on the link love this summer. I like to dole it out on the weekends but the truth is, I’ve been taking weekends off to enjoy time with my family, relax with a good book or lounge poolside. Yeah I’ve been a little lazy like that. In another week life will return to normal and I’m sure to be spending more time online.
I’m happy to report we have link love this weekend, though. Here’s what I’m reading:
Fun Stuff
- Bizarre but True Stuff about the Earth – This doesn’t have anything to do with writing. Just the sort of cool facts I enjoy reading and sharing.
- Don’t know what this is called but you’ll waste a lot of time here.
- What those picture signs REALLY mean at safenow.org.
- Funny Metaphors Used in High School Essays
Writing Stuff
- True stories told in one sentence at One Sentence.
- Finding Time to Write When You’re Still a Wage Slave at Catalyst Blogger
- What’s a Content King Without a Kingdom? at CopyBlogger
- 5 Reasons Why Blogging Leads to Writing Jobs at Daily Writing Tips
- How to Score a Job with a Web Magazine at Freelance Switch
- Tips for Staying Ahead of Your Freelance Writing Work at Freelance Switch
- DMCA Takedowns and Fair Use at Plagiarism Today
Blogging Stuff
- 5 Ways to Imitate the Most Popular Blogs at Blog Herald
- How Much Do Bloggers Make? at U.S News and World Report
- Blogging Tips added a section to their forum for people looking to hire bloggers.
- Is it Harder to Find a Job than It Used to Be at Blogging Tips
- 30 Things I Didn’t Know Before I Started Blogging at Confident Writing
- The Top 5 Ways to Keep Your Blog Content Fresh at CopyBlogger
- Building Company Blogs – What to Charge at Copywriter Underground
Freelancing Stuff
- Freelancing Lessons Learned from Tech Support at Freelance Folder
- Could You Compete in the Freelance Olympics at Freelance Folder
- Making Remote Working Work Each Day at Freelance Switch
- The Freelance Parents over at Sparkplugging have the most awesome video about their first year as freelance writers. Enoy – and check out the shout out to FWJ. Thanks, guys!
Getting By with a Little Help from My Friends
- I’m so happy to see my friend Easton Ellsworth at Blog Herald. In this post he sends out a list of “Would You Rather?” questions for bloggers.
- We often ask for feedback from the employers who advertise here for writers. It’s always eye opening and not necessarily positive. My friend Darren Rowse recently received feedback from an advertiser on his ProBlogger Job Board and discusses the importance of taking a blogging job application seriously.
- My friend David Peralty wants to know if you’re having trouble finding blogging (or freelance writing) work. There’s a conversation going on at Hive, a private blogging forum run by Performancing we both belong to, discussing this very thing. What do you think? Are you having problems finding blogging work lately?
- My friend Chris Garrett is featuring an informative series on email marketing. Do yourself a favor and take a look.
- My friend Liz Strauss offers enlightening tips on moving past writers block, migraines and trolls. Fortunately I don’t deal with migraines, but I know of writer block and trolls all too well.
- My friend Harry MacLeod talks to us about finding his ideal reader.
- My friend John Hewitt has an awesome series about a career in technical writing at PoeWar. Do stop by and offer your support.
- Avoiding feast or famine at The Writing journey
Now that we’re looking to have a couple of minutes of free time on our hand, I’ll be restarting the regular “We Get Letters” Q&A’s. If you have any questions regarding freelancing, blogging, or how to make the perfect zucchini bread, send them to me at deborahng@gmail.com. Please indicate if the letter is ok to publish here and whether or not I can use your name. I may not have all the answers, but we can brainstorm together and see what we come up with.
Have a great rest of the week and a productive week!
- Deb
Deb, don’t go apologising for taking the weekends off – that’s what weekends are for! But thanks for the link love anyway
Joanna
Some great sites you have here – thanks for the links. I need to schedule some time to set aside for regular link love. There’s just not enough of that going on in my life and there are so many interesting sites out there.
Summer’s over tomorrow for us. High school starts and then middle school starts Wednesday. I’m still feeling really uncomfortable with this school year. Besides having to spend what I feel is far too much money–we even have to buy some of the text books this year per a notice we received on Friday, so there’s more money down the drain–I also have the expense of gas to drive my son to and from high school every day thanks to the cancellation of bus service for high schoolers. While I’m sure I’ll fall into a comfortable routine, I’m not psyched over a half hour drive at 7:30 and then again at 2:30 because it’s going to cost at least a tank a week and take time away from work.
To offset the increased gas use now, I need to find more work, which means more hours, yet my workday’s being shortened for the transport. It’s all nagging at me and I’m looking for a job near my son’s high school since I’m going to have to drive that way anyway. Sadly, the job openings I’ve found pay $7 – $8 an hour and involve fast food, something I did as a teen and hated every minute of.
So I have the back to school blues I guess. As for zucchini bread, I learned a trick this summer. Our gas stove uses propane which costs a rocket around here, so I’ve been doing all my baking in my Crockpot. I’ve discovered that the Crockpot turns out the most moist, decadent breads and cakes!
Thank you for the mention Deb. It has been a fun series to write. Good luck to your two finalists to, this was a tough week to vote because they all had good articles.
My fav. was “Fun Stuff”, “What those picture signs Really mean at … ”
It’s good and healthy to have a few laughs when not writing/posting/gathering content, etc.