Quiet Rebel Writer

Hello and welcome to the week! For those of you who caught Word Porn on Friday, you might have noticed the quick mention of my weekend plans. If any of you were concerned I had stepped out of the house looking like a hooker, going to the weekend’s Miami Vice-themed party as an homage to […]

Hello and welcome to the week, one and all. Hope your weekends were filled with dry land, sunny skies, and some well-deserved indulgence.
On to business. If you take a look around at these internets, you’ll see a few prevailing themes surrounding freelance writing. Beneath all the articles and posts lamenting the sorry state of […]

Welcome to the week, one and all! Hope your weekends were replenishing and debaucherous, as mine most certainly was.
Last week we looked at the idea of going it alone, a necessity and liberating quality for freelancing and creative ventures. So it makes sense to follow that discussion up with a look at the places […]

For all you lovely regular QRW readers, you may have noticed I was absent from the bloggy airwaves last week. Life happens, as we all know, and it doesn’t fit a schedule. A close childhood friend of someone very dear to me died last week, at a young age and after a devastating, heartbreaking battle […]

Hello my friends! I hope your Memorial Day weekends were full of relaxation, barbequed foodstuffs and a smattering of sunshiny warmth.
Part of the joy of this past weekend was spending good quality time with my man, and seeing good friends who I haven’t seen in some time. It was a reconnection of delightful proportions […]

Hello QRW readers! I hope this Monday greets you well.
This week it’s time to take on the ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Many of my colleagues in the blogging world, as well as hundreds of published authors, and any yahoo off the street, have advice when it comes to freelancing and creativity. […]

Hello all! Welcome to the week. As I noted in my diatribe against burnout last week (and invitation to submit your thoughts - a standing invitation of course), I’m instituting a weekly theme here at the QRW. This theme will be the loose guide for all the rest of the week’s posts, which go as […]