I hope you’ll forgive the lack of original content around here lately. I’ve been looking for a way to get my freelance groove back but, for the moment, it eludes me. This is partly because I’m enjoying my office job so much. I’m really into the work they’re giving me, and I’m allowing it to spill into my at-home life (naughty, naughty). I’ve also been feeling groggy, and blocked when it comes to the big copywriting project I’m working on. When I’m writing something good, I can feel it. My pulse races. I’m totally psyched. And it’s fairly easy for me to whip up a first draft. But lately, it’s been like pulling teeth, and this makes me nervous. I feel as if I can’t force it but, at the same time, it needs to get done. Soon. Any advice for me?
But that’s not what you’re here for! This past week’s link love:
- Happily Ever After’s Yes, I’m Stalking Seth Godin
- The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s How I Landed My First Freelance Writing Jobs Without Clips
- Marian Schembari’s Mediabistro’s Definition of a Dream Job, and Why I’ve Never Been Happier
- All Freelance Writing’s Stop Making Excuses, Start Making Changes
- Tremendous News’s The 7 Ways to Get More Followers Nobody Will Ever Tell You
- Copyblogger’s One Foolproof Trick to Blast Writer’s Block
- Angela England’s Focus Your Efforts — 10 Habits
- Lifehacker’s Know What Your Email Address Says About You
- WordCount’s The Editor You Write for Today May Be the Writer You Edit Tomorrow
- Life Without Pants’s I’ll Never Go Back to School
- Tremendous News’s 5 Signs That You’re Likes On Twitter
- Journalistics’s 91 Journalism Blogs and Websites You Will Love
- Betsy Lerner’s If You Wanted the Sky I Would Write Across the Sky
- After the Tassel’s Tweet Success: Landing a Job 140 Characters at a Time
- Craft to Heal’s Your Creative Bucket List
- The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s Client Vs. Employer: There’s a Difference
- All Things Digital’s Demand Media is Mad as Hell and, Well, Pens a Manifesto (and Here it Is!)
- The Freelance Writing Jobs Network’s Freelance Writing: The Lazy Need Not Apply
- Oatmeal’s How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
Hi Steph –
Nice to discover your blog through FLX! Sounds like you may need to make your freelance work a priority and devote a specific time to doing it each day or a few times a week. The biggest thing is not to feel guilty about how much or how little time you devote to it — just make a commitment and stick to it!