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Janna Marlies Santoro Full-time freelancers & indie workers: do you work mostly face-to-face with clients, or virtually? Do you have a preference or better success with one or the other?

78 weeks ago from Freelancing

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Daya Bihm: My work is virtual
68 weeks ago

Helena Bouchez: I work mostly virtually, but visit my clients in person (even if its on my own dime) at least twice a year.
68 weeks ago

Jake Poinier As a freelancer, you're always hopeful that a query letter is going to land an assignment. At the same time, it's easy to be paranoid that your fantastic story idea is going to be 1) appropriated and written in house or 2) assigned to another freelancer. One of my readers had a recent bad experience, detailed here: http://bit.ly/b5BR5e I'm curious to know your experiences -- on either side of the desk. Are freelancers right to be paranoid?

79 weeks ago from Copywriters, Freelancing and Professional Writers and Editors 1 more

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Therese Pope: Hi fellow copywriters, I'm new to Brazen Careerist and this group. Jake, I found you via another site and like your Dr. Freelance site.

I've ...MoreHi fellow copywriters, I'm new to Brazen Careerist and this group. Jake, I found you via another site and like your Dr. Freelance site.

I've heard similar stories over the years, and I'm sure some of the article pitches that were rejected by newspapers and magazines ended up in their editorial calendar.

I guess as a copywriter this doesn't really phase me since I write for others in their "voice" and have taken on ghostwriting projects. It just doesn't happen with article queries/pitches. It happens in marketing, PR, sales - you name it. Ideas are stolen all the time. Look at Mark Zuckerberg. He was sued for allegedly stealing the original Facebook idea from those twins.
76 weeks ago

Aaron Evans: Recently, prominent aviators and builders got together in honor of the anniversary of the Wright Brother's flying invention. The idea was to ...MoreRecently, prominent aviators and builders got together in honor of the anniversary of the Wright Brother's flying invention. The idea was to recreate the invention, with the same materials and technologies, and make it fly. They failed.

These were the top minds in aviation and flight building, and they could not reproduce the result of the Wright brothers.

As a society we are constantly fine tuning other's ideas in a way that is more convenient, better, more marketable, etc. sometimes not even knowing or being able to reproduce the original idea. I don't know if this is good or bad, but it is happening.

Ideas can be stolen or reimplemented, but PASSION and EMOTION are yours and yours only. Doing the right thing is what sets people apart from the others today.

Zuckerburgs are everywhere, and occasionaly (as often as winning the lottery) they get lucky with another's idea, but it's not just the idea, it is how it is implemented.

Don't worry about whether others steal your ideas, just be passionate about your idea and implement better than anyone else. It is not worth the stress that it brings, is it?

All the best,
Aaron
76 weeks ago

Heather Conroy Good luck to everyone who is attempting NaNoWriMo this year. let us all know how you are going. I'm hoping for 2010. Any tips would be appreciated.

134 weeks ago from Professional Writers and Editors

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Heather Conroy: Good luck Janna and Jill! Thanks for the tips Ty-maybe should wait for another year to read and then rehash for the next NaNoWriMo. Here's some ...MoreGood luck Janna and Jill! Thanks for the tips Ty-maybe should wait for another year to read and then rehash for the next NaNoWriMo. Here's some great tips from someone who did it last year as well http://stranglingmymuse.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/what-i-learned-from-nan...
133 weeks ago

Janna Marlies Santoro: Thanks, for the well-wishes, Heather. I did sign up, although it's already day 3 and I have yet to even begin. Ugh...
133 weeks ago

Janna Marlies Santoro Also, if anyone has an idea that would make a good icon for this group, please, do tell!

134 weeks ago from Freelancing

Janna Marlies Santoro Hey everyone, good to see some activity in this group. Let's get some good forum topics going. Thanks for joining!

134 weeks ago from Freelancing

Donovan Chandler During slow times, it can be difficult to find/keep focus. Do you have any strategies for evaluating your time use effectiveness?

135 weeks ago from Freelancing

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Janna Marlies Santoro: Yes, please start a forum topic -- I would love to get a conversation going around this...
134 weeks ago

Donovan Chandler: Done - This discussion has been moved to a forum topic. I'm looking forward to your input.
134 weeks ago

Janna Marlies Santoro created the group Freelancing

139 weeks ago