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As a freelancer writer you work to your own schedule and I was fortunate enough to be able to take most of the summer off this year. My reason for this was of course to spend the time with my children and I have to admit that it was great. Many freelance writers quit their day jobs in order to be stay at home parents and this is great but sometimes what happens is that our freelance work can take over and we forget why we wanted to stay at home in the first place. This summer has been a real eye opener for me and it made realise that I had lost sight of my initial goals.

For the past week I have been re-evaluating my blog and website and their reason for existance. When I created the Ghostwriting Uncovered website back in 2007 it was to help others. I wanted this website to be a source of information for people wishing to take up freelance writing as a career. The Hidden Writer is an extension of this website and looking through the last year of posts I realised that I had lost sight of what was originally planned for this blog too.  I seem to have been following the crowd which is something that I am rather disappointed in.

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Freelancing And My Sat Nav

by Amanda on October 8, 2008

I just recently secured a new client that I am really thrilled about. Even better is the fact that he also lives here in Ireland making contact so much easier or so I thought. Turns out we are going to meet up for a coffee to discuss the project at hand. The problem is that he lives in a place I have never heard of. I know you probably think Ireland is small but its really not when you live here. Anyway I have the problem solved, I’ll be using my Sat Nav that great little GPS system that ensures I won’t get lost. Best of all, my SatNav even tells me how long it will take to get to my location and I can choose to avoid the motorways too if I want.

It really got me thinking, what would I have done without my trusted little companion. I could just imagine myself parked up at the side of the road trying to read a map to see where I was going, probably get lost, miss my appointment, and end up losing my client.

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