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Ever Landed Copywriting Gigs in Unusual Ways (Like These Folks Have)?

December 5, 2011

In the November E-PUB (here and adapted below), I wrote a piece about finding commercial writing jobs in unlikely places. Thought I’d make it blog post, in order to collect your stories about landing copywriting work in cool and unplanned ways.

I love it when work comes from unexpected directions. In The Well-Fed Writer, I talk [...]

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“Start Making $300 an Hour as a Copywriter in Just Seven Days!”

April 27, 2010

Wow. That sure sounds like an opportunity tailor-made for me. I’m a pretty good writer (I mean, my Mom’s told me so, and that’s good enough for me!). And I’d sure love to turn that skill into “$300 an hour”! That’s what they promised in this copywriting program I saw on the Internet. And it [...]

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“What’s the Current State of Freelancing?” is a Bogus Question…

November 27, 2009

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 [...]

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Even Seasoned Scribes Fret Over “Just-Turned-In” Copy…

June 4, 2008

I recently got a note from a fellow FLCW and friend of mine up in New York. Here’s what he wrote:
Peter: Do you sometimes anguish over the waiting period, after you’ve submitted work to a client and then anticipate their thumbs-up or thumbs-down response? As I write these words, I’m waiting on [...]

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“Stupidest Question Ever Asked” Spawns 5 Commercial Writing “Facts”

May 27, 2008

A year or so back, I got an email from an Atlanta gentleman that has to be a top contender for The Stupidest Question Ever Asked. I realize that’s not very nice, and I know “there’s no such thing as a stupid question” when starting out, but still…. In essence, here’s what he wrote:
“I [...]

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Sucky Writing Skills (in Business World) = Good Writing Opportunities (for Us!)

May 19, 2008

A column in my local paper this morning was yet one more gloomy drumbeat of many these days about the sorry state of writing skills amongst young people. According to a recent Pew Research Center Study, “64% of teens report that the informal styles often found in electronic communication do bleed into their school work” [...]

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