by AIW President Claude Berube Pubs. They took their name from Public Houses. When I lived in rural England, it seemed that every few miles there was a village of fifty homes, an Anglican church that dated from the 1200s and a pub that seemed just as old. There the regulars and even a few [...]
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To Do or Not to Do… Two Ways to Respond to a Client Request
by Deborah Wunderman, AIW Board Member Your client with whom you have worked for many years has hired another freelance writer—and now requests your help in transitioning a new consultant to do what you once did as well as wants copies of materials and documents previously sent to them. Recently finding myself in this situation, [...]
How Do You Know When it’s Time to Drop a Client?
by Deborah Wunderman, AIW Board Member I have worked as a freelance proposal writer for 10 years in the Washington, D.C., area. During this time, I have encountered many wonderful clients and some not-so-wonderful ones. The economic crisis has demanded much tightening of budgets and doing more with less. It has also brought to the [...]
Publishing Ideas: The Classroom as Commodity
Have you taken a class recently? Will you in the near future? If you’re a writer, then take advantage of what a classroom experience presents. This is true whether you’re taking a humanities course (English, History, Political Science, etc) or a science course. In addition to earning a grade or credit hours, make the course work for you as a writer. Being in a classroom environment offers three important commodities to a writer.
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