Beyond the Rhetoric

“Something I do in the studio is revisit a tune that’s been recorded and just jam along with my guitar to see what I can come up with. If I find something that makes me go, “Whoa, I really like that,” I’ll go in and alter the song to include that new layer. I find [...]

While this is coming from the perspective of managing my freelance writing business, the same concepts can easily extend into all sorts of other kinds of businesses. When you have several clients in your portfolio and they all have their own specific preferences, requests, and specifications, how can you keep track of all that information? [...]

Many people seem to assume that if you were to look at success and failure, you’d see them as being at opposite ends of the spectrum. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact of the matter is that success and failure are effectively two sides of the same coin and they are at [...]

On most Wednesdays, I take a quick look at what the blogosphere has had to offer in the preceding week. This speedlink usually offers some pretty varied content and I think it’s a good way to give back to the online community that has already given me so much. This week, I’m trying something a [...]

Part of the reason why someone would want to be a freelance writer in the first place is that he or she would then be able to enjoy more location freedom and time freedom than someone who held a more conventional office job. At the same time, this relative lack of structure just may be [...]