Once again, this week has seen a lot of great articles about both freelancing and writing.  I’ve managed to pick out just a few to share with you.  Have a great weekend, and don’t forget to leave your computer occasionally.  Remember how I told you recently about Char’s WordPress for Dummies contest over at Casual [...]

One of the most important goals of Freelance Parent is to encourage others who are seriously pursuing their own freelancing careers by shining a spotlight on what it’s really like to start from the ground up.  It’s a little unnerving to reveal certain things about ourselves and our company, but we agreed early on to [...]

I have a good friend from high school who recently moved back to town for the first time in nearly a decade. We’ve always gotten along quite well, so I was pretty excited to see her. Add to that the fact that her son is a mere two months younger than my daughter, and it [...]

Writers are easy to find.   In the world of work-at-home-dom, freelance writing seems to be one of the first things people turn to when faced with bringing a paycheck in through the computer screen. For instance, just imagine poor Jack, sitting at home after a stressful day at work. His back hurts from his [...]

As some of you may know, I also maintain a blog called Something Good over at Livejournal.  It’s been running for a little over a year, and it sort of my pet project (in that I love it even if I don’t have enough time for it and the overall sense of satisfaction I get [...]

Hey, all.  Remember how a couple of weeks ago we told you that Freelance Parent had been nominated for the “Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2007/2008″ contest at Writing White Papers?  Well, we discovered this morning that our little-ole weblog is one of the finalists.  How cool is that?  In addition, we’re listed alongside some really awesome [...]

First of all, happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers . . . even those not in the U.S.  Tamara and I have so much to be thankful for this year.  While getting laid off from our previous job was not at all fun, we can trace it directly to the beginnings of our freelance [...]

No profession is safe during the holidays. Whether you work in customer service, education, business, or freelancing, the smell of turkeys in the air and visions of way-too-early Santas at the mall are invariably accompanied by stress, too much work (or too little work), and general holiday depression.   I apologize in advance if you [...]

I wouldn’t say that I’m obsessive about checking our blogs stats through MyBlogLog, but I do like to peek in there a couple of times a day and see where people are coming from and where they’re heading.  I’ve also been keeping a very non-scientific eye on what posts people seem to find the most [...]

It’s that time again . . . Let’s take a look at some more great posts that people have shared this week.  While you’re at it, don’t forget to leave us your comments about what you’d like to see here at Freelance Parent.  Since we’re currently running our Moo MiniCard promotion (buy two, get one [...]