Quiet Rebel Writer

Welcome to the week, gentle readers! Sure, it’s rainy, foggy, and otherwise crappy here in Chicago. But I’m feeling optimistic anyway. It’s almost April and officially spring, even if Chicago spring doesn’t kick in until June. I’m in a new office that is just rad. I let myself sleep in this morning because, well, I […]

Hello one and all, and welcome to Friday afternoon! I face this Friday in my new office, nearly all put away from box hell earlier in the week, and I’m looking forward to a well-deserved cocktail hour. But first, I’ve got a little ranting to do.
As you all may remember, each Friday I cap […]

With the ubiquity, cheapness, and ease of the interwebs at our fingers, many freelance writers and creatives like myself use it almost exclusively for marketing our services. We create websites that are search-engine optimized to draw prospective clients in. We add online portfolios to those sites to give prospects a quick and dirty intro to […]

…to tell you about a pretty sweet showdown shaping up over at the Writer’s Resource Center. John is pitting 32 writing blogs against each other in a geektastic March Madness setup, and Quiet Rebel Writer made the list! We face some stiff competition in the seeding, but (in my best Academy Award nominee stock speech […]

It can be tough for me, and other writers, to stay on task and stay on target over the short life of a freelance project, or even over a single day. Tangents beckon, and distractions taunt, and the overarching project goals and needs can get lost along the way.
So how can a writer possibly […]

Hello QRW readers! Happy Tuesday. I’m having a hard time getting much of anything done this week, what with all these unpacked boxes and general disarray around me. So let’s dive into some timely and helpful links together. Enjoy.
March Writing Blog Madness (and QRW made the list!):
It’s March, and in the USA, that means […]

I have never been a coffee drinker. It seems heresy – a writer (or otherwise functioning adult) who doesn’t drink coffee? Aren’t we a society built on the unrealistic energy high of caffeine? How on earth have I survived this far?
In college, I took this discord to heart. I couldn’t be a proper college […]

Welcome back, everyone! Thank you for your patience during my two-day exile. Being without consistent interweb action? Horribly painful. Being hooked up again, with full connectivity to the whole wide world, and all you lovely blog readers? Delightful.
During this brief break, J and I moved from our apartment of six years into a new […]

Now don’t be sad, but I must sign off for a couple days. It’s moving time, which means headaches, backaches, big-ass-box-paper-cuts, movers cursing us for the inconceivable amount of books we have, and general anxious frivolity. It also means I’ll have limited access to the interwebs. The horror!
I will be back on Monday, bright-eyed […]

Hello QRW readers! And a happy Tuesday to you. This is a relatively slow work week here in the QRW headquarters, a well-timed slow week with moving day being Saturday. In addition to packing up all my belongings and purging six years worth of trash, I’m taking time to revisit my marketing plan and my […]