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The last chapter drags on…

Why is the last chapter of a book so hard to write?  Most of the rest of the manuscript came together in just about two weeks total, but finishing this thing is like pulling teeth from a chicken.  I just can’t get those last few hundred words to roll off the keyboard.
Maybe it’s the fear [...]

ELance – It’s a competitive market out there.

In case you didn’t know, Elance is a marketplace where freelancers and people or companies that need work done can meet and agree on the terms of a job. I’m really just getting my feet wet in the Elance marketplace but I’ve already noticed that the competition is fierce, especially in the writing sector, especially [...]

How do you balance work and daily life?

Also Known As: My wife’s JOB: A comedy of errors.
Some of you might recognize the reference to the immortal Robert Heinlein’s work in the title.  For those who don’t, if you are into Sci-Fi or Fantasy, you’ll love the book, which you can find by following the link attached to the image of the cover [...]

Backing up your stuff, with style.

I’ve mentioned the need for frequent backups here before. If you don’t have your work backed up somewhere safely off of your computer, you stand the very real risk of losing all of it in some strange, one-in-a-million computer crash or hard disk failure. Even those of us using systems that aren’t Windows [...]