What Does Your Freelance Writing Lifestyle Say About Your Freelance Writing Business?

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As you already know, I’m not a fan of the whole pajama lifestyle stereotype that goes along with freelance writing. For sure, ours is a casual way of life, but the image it portrays makes me cringe . I’ve joked about it in the past, but to be honest, the descriptions used to illustrate the freelance lifestyle bug me because they paint us as anything less than professional. By tossing out words such as “casual,” “barefoot,” and “pajama,” it paints a devil may care attitude that might work against us. I understand the whole fuzzy slipper thing is to show [Read more…]

Pajama Freedom and Freelance Writing

by James Chartrand Ah, freelancing, the life of pajama attire. It’s the dream of every hopeful freelancer: to work wearing nothing but that oh-so-comfortable home office attire that so many out there promote. It starts off simply enough. The first day at your own job, you fall out bed, blindly grope for coffee and decide that changing into sweatpants is just too much trouble. Why bother anyways? Who will see you? This is your life now. This is the world of the free, where corporate suits and skirts are banished after exorcism and three rounds of the house while burning [Read more…]

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