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The editor you write for today may be the writer you edit tomorrow

By Michelle V. Rafter on January 13, 2010 | 12 Responses

How do you act when the editor you write for today may be the writer you editor tomorrow?

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A freelancer’s thanksgiving: 10 things I’m grateful for this year

A freelancer’s thanksgiving: 10 things I’m grateful for this year

By Michelle V. Rafter on November 25, 2009 | 3 Responses

Editors, friends and family – here are the top 10 things I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving.

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Through the looking glass

Through the looking glass

By Michelle V. Rafter on November 11, 2009 | 6 Responses

I’m taking my own advice to innovate during this era of unprecedented industry change, so it’s goodbye freelance writer, hello freelance editor.

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To stay relevant, journalists need to 'flee into the future'

By Michelle V. Rafter on October 3, 2009 | 5 Responses

Newspapers maybe on the way out, but news isn’t.
The shape news takes, not only the way it’s delivered but what actually constitutes news, is changing.
Those were two of the major takeaways from the first day of the the Online News Association 2009 conference going on in San Francisco.
A sold-out crowd of more than 650 reporters [...]

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Failing to learn

By Michelle V. Rafter on September 18, 2009 | 2 Responses

Success isn’t the only thing you can learn from. You can learn from failure too. Sometimes the lessons you learn from failing stick with you more than the ones you learn from winning.

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If you're in freelance, you're in sales

By Michelle V. Rafter on September 13, 2009 | 4 Responses

Freelancing isn’t about writing. It’s about sales. To be good at freelance writing, you have to be good at sales.

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The race to the bottom

The race to the bottom

By Michelle V. Rafter on September 8, 2009 | 33 Responses

Do you focus on the lowest-common denominator freelance gigs that are easier to come by and easier to write but pay less and have a heck of a lot more competition vying for the opportunity? Or do you aim higher, going for the tougher assignments that are harder to land, harder to complete but pay more too?

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Think big

By Michelle V. Rafter on August 31, 2009 | 3 Responses

Major media companies are working to beat the recession by repackaging what they do to get more customers – and freelance writers can too. You don’t even have to think of innovations yourself. Just copy what the big boys are doing.

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How to survive a social media sabbatical

By Michelle V. Rafter on August 10, 2009 | 5 Responses

It wasn’t so long ago I was telling anyone who’d listen why I didn’t use Twitter.
Then I started using Twitter.
And never stopped. For the last eight months I’ve tweeted every day, with the occasional weekend off. I tweet eight, 10, 12 times a day: when I put up a new blog post, when one of [...]

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WordCount Repeats: 10 ways writers can beat the recession

By Michelle V. Rafter on August 9, 2009 | 3 Responses

While I’m away from my keyboard this week, I’m re-running a few posts that didn’t get the attention – or web traffic – they deserved the first time around. I’ll return with fresh insights on the business of writing next week. – Michelle Rafter
You can’t control the economy, or the price of gas or what [...]

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