The Renegade Writer Blog

I’ve come to realize that the Renegade Writer’s blogroll is seriously out of date. I want the blogroll to be a great source for writers looking for other professional blogs, and I also would like to return the blogroll love to those writing blogs that link to the Renegade Writer. If you have a writing [...]

My first free teleclass for writers, on Querying with Confidence, was this past Tuesday evening. I think it was a great success! We had 80 writers on the call, and I got some wonderful questions during the call and afterwards in e-mail. I started out with five minutes of greeting callers as they popped on [...]

I recently read a great post by writer Thursday Bram called Why Writers Need CRM and Why I Use Gist. Gist is a free online contact management tool that’s in beta now. It can import your contacts from your e-mail applications, LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, and more.
What’s really neat about Gist is that it brings together [...]

My new office doesn’t have phone service (because I’m too cheap to buy it), so I’ve been looking for ways to record interviews with my iPhone. The solutions I’ve read about sound not-quite-reliable to me — also, I have the cheapest iPhone plan, meaning I don’t have many minutes.
My writing buddy and fellow FLXer Elaine [...]

If you’re a productivity geek like me, you’ll love this article by Chris Hardwick on Wired.com. Hardwick test-drives three productivity books for two weeks each: Getting Things Done, Never Check E-mail in the Morning, and The 4-Hour Workweek. He concludes that The 4-Hour Workweek works best for freelancers. The article is interesting, useful — and [...]

On her WordCount blog, Michelle Rafter writes about the Top 10 Digital Media Trends of 2008, from the recession to Twitter. Each of Rafter’s trends comes with a helpful takeaway for writers. [lf]

Allyson Lewis is a motivational speaker, a business coach, and the author of The Seven Minute Difference: Small Steps to Big Changes, which tells readers how to change their lives using micro-actions.
The Renegade Writer: Since we’re all freelance writers, I think a lot of us are going to be interested in how you came up [...]

Thanks to a tweet yesterday from LeilaM, I discovered a fantastic writing tool called Write or Die. It’s a web-based program where you set a word-count and time goal, along with a reminder mode to kick you into action (mode choices are “gentle,” “normal,” “kamikaze,” and “electric shock”) and start writing. When you let up, [...]

With the economy being what it is, you may have had the idea to start pitching more in hopes of bringing in more cash. Or maybe you were inspired by my idea of doing a pitch blitz in How to Gain Control Over Your Freelancing Life. Whatever the reason, you want to expand your client [...]

This post is by guest blogger Michelle V. Rafter, owner of the fabulous WordCount blog. Thanks, Michelle!
Last September I was getting ready to start writing again after spending most of the previous seven years at home with my kids. I was totally out of touch with the freelance world and way behind on the subjects [...]