Comments on: Top 10 Ways to Know You’re a Freelance Writer

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:15:34 +0000

By the way, Jamie, thanks for the button. It makes me feel all aw shucks like when I see it looking at me on the page.

Writer Dad´s last spectacular blog post..Let’s Get Our Kids Drunk! or Happy Halloween!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:32:32 +0000

I have PILES of notebooks and journals. I found a leather bound journal with the clasp and everything online last week. I keep telling myself, “You don’t need it.” But I want it.

That whole you have to write xxx words to pay for that is working so far.

By: B J Keltz

B J Keltz — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:29:39 +0000

I will admit to 5 of the ten, especially any time I step foot in an office supply or stationary store. And I’m not even a free lance writer!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:54:29 +0000

Hi Rebecca,

My year old knows when mom’s busy, I can sneak junk food. I hear crinkling noises coming from the couch. “Z, are you eating junk?”
Silence. 10 seconds later as he frantically chews and swallows. “Nope.”

I find the wrappers in the cushions, and he blames it on his brother.

I admire you for chasing down your dreams. Many single mothers I know compromise themselves for a bigger paycheck. I wish you the best and will pray for your family and your career.

By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith

Rebecca Laffar-Smith — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:52:57 +0000

lol Brilliant Dana! I will admit to 6 out of 10. Eat your breast crumbs? No, never contemplated that. lol I think an important one to add is. 11. Your kids know how to cook their own dinner, age 4. My kids have learned how to fend for themselves. The woe of having a single mother who is a writer. Some days I'm might be sitting there but am not there at all. Other days they get sick of me bugging them. lol Rebecca Laffar-Smith´s last spectacular blog post..Free Write Against the Blank Page

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:03:48 +0000

Hi Dana, we’re glad to have you stop by.

Maybe bras should come with a removable crumb shield? We could send Dave a roll of duct tape for his belly button.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:54:02 +0000

Hello! Love that I discovered your blog this morning. ROFL @ all of this. I SO live at this desk and I regularly say, "Do you know how many words I had to type to buy that?!?" I can't believe I'm admitting this but if the coroner suspected I was poisoned to death they'd not have to do an autopsy of my body but just the inside of my bra, too. Dana´s last spectacular blog post..A Freelancer Writer’s Income Report

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:25:56 +0000

Kool Aid,

I have a tshirt a friend sent me that reads “Careful or you’ll end up in my next novel” I love it!!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:20:16 +0000

Hey Sean, Great freelancer joke. Some writers would have to write 3,000 words to buy that t-shirt. You could get away with 50.

That Writer Dad button does look good over there, doesn’t it? I think it goes with the drapes.

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:45:38 +0000

By the way, Jamie, thanks for the button. It makes me feel all aw shucks like when I see it looking at me on the page. Writer Dad´s last spectacular blog post..Let’s Get Our Kids Drunk! or Happy Halloween!