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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:15:08 +0000

[...] short while ago, David Billings of Sparky Firepants wrote and excellent and truthful post entitled ‘Five Freelance Secrets You Don’t Read About In Books’, which prompted me to write this post on a writer’s life. However, I recently came across the [...]

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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:46:14 +0000

[...] Five Freelance Secrets You Don’t Read About in Books. [...]

By: dayna

dayna — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:44:20 +0000

that’s so funny. i never thought about this but it’s so true!!! i sit here, knowing I have to pee, and keep working, or reading or answering that last email, or that last blog post, or new story, and meanwhile I still have to pee….. I think it’s all that tea I drink in the mornings, you get into these routines when you work from home, and all those snacks, they call your name all day, and you can ‘t wait for lunch and then dinner, and you can’t be on ichat cuz then people bother you and you can’t get yoru work done. the one nice thing is that at some point my body knows it’s had enough and my eyes glaze over round 6/7ish and I have to shut the computer off cuz I can’t take it no more, and the tv comes on or maybe the book comes out…..

By: JoVE

JoVE — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:09:42 +0000

Came over on Havi’s recommendation and I’m so glad to learn that I am not the only one with crossed legs reading one more e-mail…

By: Arron Lock

Arron Lock — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:05:19 +0000

Hilarious! Also very true.

By: Deliriousgirl

Deliriousgirl — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:58:09 +0000

Terrific! I’m headin out for a good chair NOW!

By: sparkyfirepants

sparkyfirepants — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:46:43 +0000

Thanks, everyone. :)

I really feel like I struck a chord. Everyone’s talking about their ass now.

“The reality is, there is no ass. There’s only the tops of the legs.” – Rob Reiner, “The Story of Us”

It’s clear to me now that the majority of the tops of the legs here need better support.

By: Susan Marie

Susan Marie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:40:46 +0000

Re the 4 seasons again, and freelancing. Clothing through the seasons: I have worn the same red wool sweater every work day for so many days that I’m worried about breaking the chain. Also, chairs/switching rooms through the seasons: the room with the serious work chair is cold on winter mornings. Choices must be made!

By: Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:06:22 +0000

Oh my god.
I am so glad that someone else’s ass hurts.
I thought I’d lost my mind and that my poor bum was the only one suffering.

Will start looking for that chair…

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:08 +0000

A big expensive “make my butt feel fancy” chair was the best business investment I ever made – but it took 5 years of torture from a cool as heck found-on-the-street rickety wooden number to drive me to it!

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh….