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July musings about writing and blogging

As July winds down, I’m looking back over what I have managed to accomplish this month. As my regular readers know, I really do enjoy blogging, writing and finding new ways to generate income. I also like sharing information about what is successful, things that are less successful than I anticipated and what to avoid at all costs. I wrote my first “scam alert” post this month, because it annoys me to no end to find out about people who are out for their own best interests and scamming people just because they can. It’s wrong, and it aggravates...

From ghost writing to Freelancing

A brief introduction to freelancingandmore's Monday blogger, Gail Seymour, long time Internet ghostwriter turned freelance whose chaotic CV includes such oddities as being a published poet, web site design, floristry, and Hostage Negotiating.

Accidental Freelancer

It’s always interesting to find out how people wound up doing freelance work and my story isn’t much different from others except that I have a few varying twists in my tale. I never considered being a freelancer! In fact, I simply couldn’t imagine depending on chance for a paycheck every week, I really liked the stability of the brick and mortar workplace. What changed? Well for me there are multiple changing points in my road to freelancing. The first occurred in 1991 when I was informed that I had retinitis pigmentosa. Web MD Says this about RP: Retinitis pigmentosa...

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Readers of this blog will see several posts regarding oDesk Some will be positive while others may not be so positive. I do need to make a disclaimer here about oDesk.

A) I was (and am) a contractor on oDesk - I accept various jobs at oDesk,

B) At one time during a very active period of time for me, I worked as a contractor FOR oDesk. They were one of the many clients who have hired me at oDesk

C) The advertisement you see here in various posts and in ad blocks are from Commission Junction. I am an affiliate for oDesk.

Note that none of this prevents me from sharing information. I am not violating any rules set down by oDesk and I am not sharing information that could not be found by users and non-users of oDesk.

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