Category: Freelance Writing
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IAPWE: Scam?
It starts off with what looks to be a genuine work opportunity. There’s quite a lengthy skills test to complete. After a couple of weeks, you get an email saying that you’re hired – except that you aren’t. It turns out you’re now an approved member of IAPWE – the Professional Association of Writers and…
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Creating Copy: Everybody’s Looking for Something
Starting a portfolio website as a writer is easy enough. Knowing what to post there is another matter! The problem we’re faced with is that everybody’s looking for something, and we don’t know what that “something” is, even though we may be adaptable as commercial writers. Here are some of the options, each written in…
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Freelancer Ethics
It started off as what looked like a perfectly ordinary project, but it didn’t take long to realize that something was badly wrong. I followed the trail. I drew my conclusions. What I was being asked to do was to produce “news articles” to make it look like public opinion was on the side of…
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Passive Voice is Not Wrong
If you’re a writer, you may have been confronted with an instruction that you should never use passive voice. As for software like Grammarly, it goes after passive voice like a ferret after a rodent. What is passive voice? Is it wrong? Let’s take a look! In passive voice, the subject is acted on by…
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How to Manage Your Time as a Freelancer
My boss hates me – and I’m my own boss! Just as I thought that I’d better spruce up my portfolio and go job hunting, I got hit by an avalanche of work from clients, all of whom would like me to treat them as if they were my only client. It’s a problem a…
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Crafting Landing Page Text
As a writer, I really love words. I like to read them, and I like to write them. But I’m very well aware that the average person looking for things online doesn’t want to wade through a lot of text. They’re going to hit the landing page on the run, and if it looks like…
Evergreen Times 