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		<title>Writing This Bad Highlights a Whole Other Writing World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s dispense with weighty commercial writing matters for a moment and have a little comic relief. A few weeks back, an accomplished writer friend of mine sent me a link to an article, along with this note: “Holy crap, this is what passes for writing these days?!” 
Here’s the link.
I read it, my jaw slowly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growth in Temps: Bad Sign for Employees, Good Sign for Freelancers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw an interesting bit in the Associated Press this morning entitled: “Use of temps may no longer signal permanent hiring” (link). 
Here’s an excerpt: 
When employers hire temporary staff after a recession, it’s long been seen as a sign they’ll soon hire permanent workers. Not these days. Companies have hired more temps for four straight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/growth-in-temps-bad-sign-for-employees-good-sign-for-freelancers</link>
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		<title>What Would You Do About a Client Like This One?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a note from a fellow commercial writer recently. She wrote:
I have a client who’ll give me two or three days to write something (when I really need a week), insisting such a tight deadline is necessary, and then take a week to review it, revealing the deadline wasn’t real after all. I know they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/what-would-you-do-about-a-client-like-this-one</link>
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		<title>Got a Place to Flee to from Home Office Distractions?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So there’s this cool space not too far from me here in Atlanta called Strongbox West. Geared to freelancers of all stripes, it’s a place to escape to when you want to flee the claustrophobically-closing-in four walls of the home office and get some work done while in the company (or at least the proximity) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/got-a-place-to-flee-to-from-home-office-distractions</link>
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		<title>Don We Now Our…Mental Armor for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I’m hanging out with family for a few days in that dead zone at the end of the year, feeling like I need to be a little introspective….meaningful… significant… Y’know, that “let’s-reflect-on-2009” backwards glance (I know, many of you would just as soon not) “and-look-forward-to-2010” optimism (better). 
Actually, all I really want to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/don-we-now-our%e2%80%a6mental-armor-for-2010</link>
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		<title>Good Clients (Like This One) Understand a Good Writer’s Value (and Will Pay…)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I couldn’t have scripted it better myself. A little background…. 
Got a call from a prospect in early November. About 18 months earlier (May 2008), the local daily, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, did a “Why I Love My Job” feature on yours truly in the Sunday paper. Following a few live seminars I’d done in March [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/good-clients-like-this-one-understand-a-good-writer%e2%80%99s-value-and-will-pay%e2%80%a6</link>
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		<title>“What’s the Current State of Freelancing?” is a Bogus Question&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, about a week ago, I get an email from a good friend and fellow commercial freelancer who’s presenting on an IABC panel on freelancing a few days later. She’s written to me to get my input on an issue of exceptional interest to the many would-be attendees. Her question is: 
Can you sum up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/%e2%80%9cwhat%e2%80%99s-the-current-state-of-freelancing%e2%80%9d-is-a-bogus-question</link>
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		<title>How Important is Meeting Clients in Person?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we go with Part Two of the previous post. As you recall, I’d gotten an email from a commercial freelancer starting out, asking about business process (i.e., when I write, when I talk to clients, which we covered in the first post) as well as the age-old “meeting/no meeting” issue. Did I meet clients [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/how-important-is-meeting-clients-in-person</link>
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		<title>Your Business “Process” is Up to You, Not Your Clients&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got an email from a budding commercial freelancer recently, asking about my business “process.” Specifically, when I do my writing, when I talk to clients, if I meet them in person, how often I have in-person meetings (he was a good 90 minutes from the nearest big city and didn’t relish in-person meetings), etc. 
I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/your-business-%e2%80%9cprocess%e2%80%9d-is-up-to-you-not-your-clients</link>
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		<title>Good Copywriters Don’t Let Clients Insult Their Customers&#8217; Intelligence…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I use this web-based service to manage book sales, ebook downloads and other jobs on the publishing side of my business (I’m being vague here so as to not name names, though, given the circumstances, I’m not exactly sure why…). 
In any case, I pay this company $1000 a year for this service. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wellfedwriter.com/blog/good-copywriters-don%e2%80%99t-let-clients-insult-their-customers-intelligence%e2%80%a6</link>
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