To get ahead at work, don’t act your age
Penelope Trunk thinks Gen Y workers are smarter than you, and if you want to get ahead, you should act like they do.
Best of WordCount: Juggling work and family
In honor of Mother’s Day, today’s edition of Best of WordCount is about juggling a freelance writing career with family life.
How to know if you’re freelance editor material
Because you’re good with words doesn’t mean you’re good with people, but editors have to be good at both. Here are 8 qualities freelance editors have to have.
My big fat paid blogging gig at SecondAct.com
As my new blogging gig at SecondAct.com goes live, I’m like a new mom, nervous I won’t have enough time and love to go around.
WordCount Q&A: Marla Beck, life coach for writers
WordCount interviews life coach Marla Beck on obstacles writers make for themselves and how to overcome them – with or without outside help.
Online brand design overhaul: the new me
There are plenty of reasons a writer should have an online brand, and a good-looking one at that. Here are the reasons I spent time and money redoing mine.
The luck of the Irish wasn’t just luck
On St. Patrick’s Day when everybody’s feeling a little Irish, think about the luck you make for yourself.
The Oscars and writing: Meryl Streep is a good picker, and you can be too
Like Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock and other actors and creative types, writers are only as good as the projects they pick. Here’s how to be a better picker.
New tools for a new writing world
Here’s a list of journalism training websites that offer free or low-cost classes freelancers can take to pick up skills they need to create content online.
The editor you write for today may be the writer you edit tomorrow
How do you act when the editor you write for today may be the writer you editor tomorrow?
