Look, Kids…Big Ben!

Greetings, my fellow ink-stained wretches! Long weekend here. I’ve flown my mother into Charleston for her birthday. So it’s four days of touristy crap for the lady who not only cracked the whip tirelessly until I finished college, but who also bought me my first computer. It’s the least I can do…trust me, I checked!  [...]

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Hoping Against Hope: The Want Ads

Can you (and by you I mean me) find writing jobs in the want ads? If you don’t live in New York, Chicago, or anywhere there are more people than livestock, I’m not so sure. Every town is different, of course, and there are different kinds of writing.
Take Charleston, for example. Type “writer” into the [...]

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What Am I Bid?

Somehow, I have managed to maintain a mix of copywriting clients of various sizes and workloads. There’s an ebb and flow; one client’s writing needs are down, while another’s are up. And over the years, I have managed to pay the bills. Not exactly rolling naked in obscene piles of money…just paying the bills. The [...]

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Blogging for Fun (?) and Profit (?)

I’m late to the party, admittedly. But I just spent 5 weeks in blogger purgatory and, damn it, that experience had to have been for a reason!  I’m referring to spending hours each day writing blog posts or comments, as well as “informative” articles about topics related to a client’s product.
The point is to write [...]

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First Time for Everything

When it comes to subject matter, there’s a first time for everything. Kitchen remodeling, competitive cycling, burial caskets…there’s a first gig, first assignment, first Google search for every topic. I’ve said it repeatedly; it’s one of my favorite parts of the business.
I just wish that some clients shared that enthusiasm. There was a marketing [...]

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Hot Links!

I have updated the site to include some samples of web sites I have provided content for. It’s a page of hot and tasty* links that resides in the Copywriting for the Web page. I’d like to highlight one of my favorites, if I may. It’s a self -promotional piece for the agency [...]

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Tunneling to Freedom

After a weekend of decompression, and repeatedly washing the air of menace out of my hair, I am happy (or something) to say I am a freelance writer once more. My therapist predicts at least one session per day worked, so I’m going to be on the couch at least until next Christmas. She says [...]

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A Head-Crushing Good Time

Kevin: My God, what a hateful baby.
Dave: It’s like the whole of human suffering wrapped in swaddling clothes!

Back in the early 1990s, I used to joke that my life was great except for two areas: personal and professional. Trust me, I have no particular longing for those times. But I have tremendous nostalgia [...]

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A Change in the Program

It figures. As soon as I launch this blog as a feeble marketing attempt, I manage to market myself into a full time copywriting gig here in Charleston. It’s a full time 1099 gig, though, so I can still cling to a shred of my freelance cred.
I’ve made this transition before, from freelance to full [...]

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Web of Procrastination

Web-addicted? Addiction is such a strong word. Let’s say I’m “web-dependent.” Sometimes, it’s unavoidable. Much of my clientele is elsewhere, so I am often waiting for some file to come over the wire. But, other times, when I am merely hitting F5 over and over to refresh the Yahoo entertainment headlines, I realize it’s [...]

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