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The Writing Coach Podcast with Rebecca L. Weber

May 31, 2022

Curiosity is a useful state of mind for freelance writers. Curiosity helps us identify great story ideas with unrecognized angles. Curiosity fuels our interest in improving our craft. Curiosity makes understanding the pitching process and other business of freelancing type processes fascinating. It opens up...


May 24, 2022

My first career in traditional education informed my work as a freelance journalist, and my work as a writer informs the coaching and teaching I do now online. This week I share a few of the mindset perspectives that have served me well through career shifts, and how building on prior career skills or subject...


May 19, 2022

A lot of freelancers find it easier to maintain the status quo by keeping on clients that aren’t a good fit because they are so familiar. 

After you’ve worked with a client for a few assignments/months, you have far more insight into what they’re really like. If you knew then what you knew now, would you take them...


May 17, 2022

Today I’m sharing what it was like getting pregnant and having a baby during the pandemic.

One of the things I got clear about early on was deciding what I thought I wanted my time off to look like (including how long, how “off” I wanted to be, and what the transition winding down and gearing up would be like),...


May 10, 2022

Have you interviewed somebody who wanted to review your copy before publication? This is a surprisingly high-tension issue for many journalists, even thought it seems like it could be nipped in the bud with a simple, “Sorry, that’s against the publication’s policy.”

Today we cover:

  • A simple method to reduce the...