“Once upon a time…” A great storytelling framework for your writing is the Hero’s Journey. Let’s go over its steps, and where you’ll recognize it in the stories around you.

Proofreading isn’t just a glance through before hitting publish. It’s a lot more intricate and nuanced than that, and today I share how I go about proofreading (since I’ve been actually getting paid to do it recently!). Ultimately? All those writing mechanics should disappear to create a seamless reading experience.

I’m back with a new Daily Freelancer, coming off of a busy week last week where I learned lots of things! Today, it’s all about thinking about the customer and how to connect to their identity when marketing your company — with a little help from Simon Sinek’s TED Talk.

Today, I changed one of my rates. Here’s what happened.

Today I talk about the difference between writing for publications and writing for businesses, the pros and cons of each, and how the two are mutually exclusive. Build your portfolio of personal essays? Or pay rent? Hmm…