5 Questions With Rachel Madorsky

July 26, 2010

Rachel Madorsky

Take a closer look at the lives of fellow writers in our new series “5 Questions With…”
Today Rachel Madorsky shares some insights with us:
1. Can you tell readers a bit about your background and how you became a writer?
The first half of my working life I taught engineering courses to senior-level students in the college. [...]

Pronounce Things Correctly With Forvo

July 9, 2010

by Catherine L. Tully
As a writer, sometimes there are words that I come across that I don’t know exactly how to pronounce. Enter Forvo.
Forvo has a database of over 587,000 words in 241 languages that you can search to find a particular pronounciation. It’s a handy little site–and signing up is free.
(iPhone owners–there’s even an ap so [...]

Creative Space

July 2, 2010

by Catherine L. Tully
I find that I really need to take a break once in a while now that I’m older. When I was young, I could work endlessly and not seem to suffer. Now, I can work for long stretches of time–but it drains me.
When you read this, I will just be getting back [...]

Why Hoot Suite Rocks

May 3, 2010

by Catherine L. Tully
If you are into social media (which you should be in my opinion), you need Hoot Suite. Seriously.
Hoot Suite helps you manage all of your social media accounts from one place, and it has a host of useful features, including:
- The ability to schedule tweets
- Easy updates on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook–all [...]

Free Bookkeeping For Writers With Outright

March 31, 2010

This post is sponsored by Outright — Your Livelihood, Right Now.  Getting your taxes right with free bookkeeping.
This post is meant to give you a little peek inside of a business that we here at Freelance-Zone think is a great match for our readers. I, for one, hate keeping books–but I know that it [...]