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Once you’ve hung your shingle as a freelance nurse-writer (woot!), you need to constantly nurture your business so it flourishes. Without goal-setting, that’s just not gonna happen.
How do you juggle client work with prospecting with invoicing with negotiating with updating your website with cooking...
What is “net 30”? “Net-45”? “On acceptance”? What does “on publication” mean? How about “kill fee”?
These are all types of payment terms offered in the publishing and content industries. In order to manage your business’ cash flow, every nurse-writer needs to understand what different types of payme...
I never expected to sit down at my desk on a Monday morning and find my inbox flooded with messages from strangers, asking me if I had seen what Dr. Sandra Lee (aka: celebrity dermatologist “Dr. Pimple Popper”) had said “about me” on Twitter.
What?
One person helpfully sent me a screenshot of the po...
If you’re considering transitioning to a writing career from nursing, you might wonder what types of…things you might actually be asked to write. In the industry, we call the things we write “content assets” or “content deliverables” or “articles,” depending on if you’re working on the content marke...
Very often when nurses first approach me about how to become a writer, they’re interested in writing to advance their personal “cause” or “issue.” For example, I’ve recently talked to a nurse who believed passionately in the value of case management and wanted to spread the word more widely, and I’v...
Sometime in the spring of 2011 or 2012 (I honestly don’t remember now), I arrived home after a shift at the plastic surgery practice I’d been with for a year or so. It wasn’t a particularly tiring nursing job, but it could be frustrating at times. And that spring Friday was one such day.
Part of my ...
One question that has come up consistently in the Health Journalism Basics for Nurses workshop is: How do I cite my sources in an article?
It’s a very fair question, and I wish I’d addressed this better in the lessons. Since I didn’t, I’ll do it now in this blog post.
Reporting vs Academic Papers
Al...
Let’s talk about cultivating an abundance mindset.
One year ago, on a weekday afternoon, I sat in the offices of Wharff-Lackey Accounting and Technology to discuss my latest proposed business venture, RN2writer. I always get my accountant, Robert’s, advice and input on important business decisions, ...
Seriously. This is the ’42’ of freelancing.
Today I’m sharing the one secret that will lead you to success as a freelance writer. Yep, this one thing is the key to building a sustainable business – and I’m not exaggerating. If you can master this, you’ll be as busy as you want to be.
The secret?
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I hope you’re having a super January. I’ve been prospecting my fanny off. Yes, even as a seasoned freelance writer I must constantly prospect for new work.
To find clients, I’ve espoused Jennifer Goforth Gregory’s “Audience First” approach in the past, and that is an excellent method that I use freq...
