Before becoming self-employed, I considered time management one of my greatest strengths. After all, I’d always gotten my homework done early in school, and I never missed a deadline in a professional setting. So, I reasoned, managing my time as a freelancer would be no trouble at all. I was so, so naive. It turnsContinue reading “3 Tricks for Staying Productive (Even When No One’s Looking)”
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A 4-Step Process for Giving Feedback that Gets Results
Giving feedback is one of those professional skills that everyone expects you to be able to do, but no one actually teaches you how to do it. We’ve all received feedback on our work that was confusing or landed poorly because the person giving it couldn’t express themselves well. And most of us have alsoContinue reading “A 4-Step Process for Giving Feedback that Gets Results”
4 Ways to Avoid Writing Like AI
However frenzied the AI hype gets, at the end of the day, people want to read stuff written by humans. Even AI’s biggest cheerleaders have backed away from writing with AI. Instead, they generally champion using AI to brainstorm, outline, or edit, leaving the actual writing to a person. This is mostly a good thingContinue reading “4 Ways to Avoid Writing Like AI”
Fluff(y) Piece: Everything I Know I Learned from My Cat
When you’re stuck in your career, it’s helpful to look to the wisdom of others. To learn from the people who really have things figured out, who know exactly what they want and how to get it. People like my cat, Levi. Levi’s confidence, people skills, and expertise in his field (that field being nappingContinue reading “Fluff(y) Piece: Everything I Know I Learned from My Cat”
How Good Is AI, Really? Part 1: Critiquing an AI’s Critique
I’ll be honest with you: I don’t like generative AI. I’ve done my research on the technology and written about a dozen pieces on it for various clients, and through it all I’ve tried to keep an open mind. But even ignoring the environmental concerns and the fact that it is, in a sense, aContinue reading “How Good Is AI, Really? Part 1: Critiquing an AI’s Critique”
What Content Editors Wish Writers Knew (and Vice Versa)
I’m a freelance writer now, but before that, I was a content marketing editor. I’ve been on both sides of the content writing equation: the one editing freelancers’ work and the freelancer receiving edits. Spending time in both roles has made it clear that there are a lot of opportunities for communication breakdowns to happenContinue reading “What Content Editors Wish Writers Knew (and Vice Versa)”
Why I Won’t Use AI for My Writing
Recently, it has become impossible to scroll through any social media feed without seeing opinions on ChatGPT. ChatGPT is the future, apparently. Except, according to others, it’s not actually going to change much. It’s going to put all writers and marketing professionals out of jobs. No, wait, we’ll all still be employed, it’ll just makeContinue reading “Why I Won’t Use AI for My Writing”
4 Steps to Better Organization in Your Writing
Back in middle school, most of us had to memorize a very specific formula for organizing our essays. It went something like this: We had to practice this five-paragraph essay format over and over, scribbling some of the world’s dullest essays. As a pretentious, literary-minded teenager, I had a lot to say about how thoseContinue reading “4 Steps to Better Organization in Your Writing”
What I Learned from My First Two Years Freelancing
I feel like I started freelancing yesterday. But according to the calendar, two years have already gone by. These past two years have been some of the most professionally fulfilling years of my life. While I won’t lie and say that everything’s been smooth sailing, it has been a journey well worth going on.Continue reading “What I Learned from My First Two Years Freelancing”
What to Put in a Creative Brief
I freelance now, but I used to work on the other side of the equation — I was the content marketer who assigned work to freelance writers and edited their submissions. While in that role, I discovered an important formula: More time spent writing a creative brief = Less time spent editing a submission WhenContinue reading “What to Put in a Creative Brief”
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