Personal Fulfillment & Solopreneur Productivity Coach | RomCom Novelist
Browsing Category
When you are a business owner and you work from home, it can be challenging to separate your work life from your personal life. When you are your brand, and your hobbies and your work start to overlap, differentiating between your work life and your personal life can seem impossible. Luckily, there actually are ways …
So you have written a manuscript, copy for your website, children’s book, promotional or professional material, newsletter, or just about any other document you can think of – and someone tells you that you should get it edited. But why? Why does editing matter, and what does an editor do? Why does editing matter? Editing …
I have now been a full-time freelance editor and writer for almost three whole months! The time certainly does fly. I have learned a lot in the past few months about being a small business owner, working from home, my own work style, and the freelancing lifestyle in general. So I figured it was about …
I recently returned from the Editors’ Association of Canada conference in Toronto. It was wonderful! I had such a great time: learned a lot during the sessions, got to see plenty of Toronto, and met some lovely people. As with any conference, networking was an important part of this one. I’ve been to a number …
Forget about starting a blog or writing guest posts for blogs—what if you want to have multiple blogs of your own? Before SaganMorrow.com, I had four separate blogs that I wrote for regularly: Living Healthy in the Real World, Living Rhetorically in the Real World, Living Fashionably in the Real World, and Health Writer Eats. I …
“He’ll never catch up!” the Sicilian cried. “Inconceivable!” “You keep using that word!” the Spaniard snapped. “I don’t think it means what you think it does.” That line from Inigo Montoya in William Goldman’s The Princess Bride has become quite famous over the years. And no wonder: most of us, at some point or another, …
What the heck is Twitter, anyway? Do I *really* need it? How can I use it in a way that will be helpful for me? Is it going to take hours upon hours of my time? These are some of the most common questions I hear from non-Twitter-users and from people new to Twitter. Let’s …
I recently had the opportunity to try out products from BuildASign.com – specifically, business cards. It was good timing since I’ve been running low on business cards lately. You can always use more! In the past, I have purchased mine from UPS. They did the lovely design work as well. Since I had a PDF …
I might not work in an office anymore – but I certainly learned a lot while I did! And now that I’m working from home, and Mr Science also spends much of his time working from home, these tips are useful to apply in the home office space, too. Whether you’re working in a workplace …
Until recently, the books lined up neatly on my massive standup working desk – just behind and to the side of my laptop, and just below eye level (for me) – were all related to nutrition. They included textbooks that I had purchased when I was getting my diploma in holistic nutrition, raw food books, …
I have now survived a whole week working freelance from home! Overall, it’s been a blast. There’s been some ups and downs, but I am confident that this is the job for me at this stage in my life. I love it. Working full-time from home as a freelancer has already, even in just one …
Sometimes we don’t pick up a novel because it seems too intimidating. The novel is written by a great author that our society celebrates, yet which few people (when you ask them outright) have actually read. Sometimes those novels actually are tough to get though and, to be honest, rather tedious (I’m looking at you, …
Now that I’m working from home, I want to be very mindful of what I do during my day and how I spend my time. I’ve created a draft of a schedule / routine for me to follow, which I’m sure I will be adapting and playing around with over the coming weeks and months …
When a colleague recently emailed me to ask about a list I was putting together for her, I explained that I hadn’t had a chance to get it done yet, but I would find some time to do it in the next couple of days. As I hit the “send” button, I realized that my …
Over the past couple of years, I have had the great opportunity to review close to (or perhaps more than) 100 resumes and cover letters. When you receive 40 resumes and you have to narrow it down to interview just four of the people who submitted resumes, things get very interesting indeed. Here are five …