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At break, I chatted with Mark outside. We’ve gotten almost to the flirting stage. I told him about the People assignment and talked about my publicity campaigns, and he remembered once seeing me on the TV news. I could tell I was getting more attractive to him.

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The golden rule of fashion design also applies to freelance writing: Style matters.

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Doing something you “love” doesn’t mean you’ll love it all the time.

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Ask the right questions. To your mentor, your coach, or on the Internet.

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There’s just something so fulfilling about being your own boss, creating your own schedule and marching to the beat of your own drum.

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1. Be unapologetic.

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Somebody once said that “writing is cutting a vein and letting it bleed.” But usually it’s not that easy.

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Content writing is one of the more soul sucking undertakings a writer can, well, undertake.

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I have thought: a wedding. Maybe you’re the groom? Maybe you have two weddings. How many weddings can a person have in the span of eighteen days?

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Your life becomes a constant progress of trying to sleep at night and work during the day — at least until you realize the utter impossibility of that endeavor, until you surrender to the fact that you’ll wake with full intention at 11 a.m. and instead spend four hours gazing at social media for some purpose you’ll justify to yourself somehow.