Quiet Rebel Writer

For this week’s theme we’ve talked about the twin terrors of insecurity and intimidation when it comes to living creatively. Thursday is marketing maven time here at the QRW, and these internal drags are a painfully appropriate topic.

Makes a sick kind of sense, dunnit? The best time for insecurity to rear its ugly parasitic […]

Although the majority of the moving is done, our new loft still has work to do. We have piles of art and albums we decorated the last place with sitting around, waiting for us to have free time, taunting us with their forlorn and undisplayed beauty. I was looking through one of these piles the […]

Today’s post is a continuation of our discussion on writing groups. Yesterday we looked at the topic from the publishing perspective. Can objective, useful feedback on books-in-progress be found through writer’s groups? I didn’t have much faith in the notion, and recounted the weirdness you can find through Craigslist. Good times.
What about freelancing organizations? […]

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 […]

Yes, gentle readers, there was a lost day this week. No posting occurred on QRW yesterday, but for good reason. Tales of that momentous occasion involving Chicago, exorbitant fees, and glorious new property, will be saved for another time.
But a lack of posting yesterday means a double whammy today. You get a two-for-one post, […]

I like knowing what to expect. Call me a creature of habit, but I like knowing that almost every Wednesday night I have date night with J, that Friday nights we’re probably going to order sushi, that Saturday afternoons we hit LaBamba for a burrito lunch and then go book shopping. Patterns and routines can […]

A potential customer or client visits your site. Will she be confused, or will she be converted?
For freelance writers, visitors that come to your site have questions. Same goes for contract IT consultants, or small businesses, or anyone seeking to sell themselves or a product. Visitors want to know the steps involved in using […]

When I started freelancing, I read that I needed to cold call to get some clients. So I did, despite the fact that I hate calling strangers with a fiery passion that knows no bounds. I called for a couple weeks, despite the fact that I seriously contemplated stabbing a pen in my eye before […]