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Writing for Money Blog Carnival Edition #2

Welcome to the second edition of the Writing for Money Blog Carnival.

By the way, for the (very) few who’d been following this blog carnival and for those who wants to have their blog posts included in future editions, the Writing for Money blog carnival’s going to be reformatted. Soon, it will become the Online Freelancing Blog Carnival, to accommodate the broad range of submissions I’ve been getting. I couldn’t include some posts because they just don’t fit the carnival’s niche.

Future online freelancing blog carnival editions will include the following categories:

Online Freelancing Advice
Work-Life Balance
Continuing Education for the Freelancer
Finding Jobs
Productivity Help
Marketing Yourself
Managing Professional Relationships
Blogging and Writing Tips
Money and the Freelancer
Creativity Boosts and Inspiration

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How to Start Freelancing Online There’s a popular saying that most freelancers are wary of, and it goes something like this: “Freelancers are paid per hour, per project…or perhaps.”

Although I don’t know who to thank for that sage advice, it’s a reality in the world of freelancing.

This is especially true for the online freelancer because of the physical divide. By necessity, every online freelancing relationship will be based on trust. Most of your clients will be offshore companies and individuals so unless (1) you work through a trusted outsourcing platform, or (2) the client is a frequent one, there’s no way to run after a deadbeat, er, client.

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This last “sleep cycle”—mine, that is—I tried to experiment a little.

What if I remained awake the night through—society’s norm, that is—and expose myself to morning sunlight so my body knows it is actually morning and time to be awake?

At about 0700H, I went out to the back porch and sat, waiting for the morning sun to hit me full in the face. I was trying to “re-set” my body clock, so to speak, by stimulating it with sunlight. I was hoping I could stay up for the whole day, never mind that I’ll eventually “lose” it because I’d be very sleepy, just so I could go to sleep earlier than 0400H on the next “sleep cycle.”

Fat lot of good it did me.

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So what have I learned about DSPS, or delayed sleep-phase syndrome, so far?

Wikipedia says it’s a circadian rhythm sleep disorder.

Circadian rhythm is your body’s biological clock—that drummer which only you can hear—and it affects stuff in your body like temperature, alertness, appetite, the release of hormones, and of course, your sleeping and waking time. This unseen clock inside of every one of us, when it’s working properly, would wake us up when it’s time to wake up so that we don’t sleep the whole 24 hours of the day through, and tells us to go to sleep when it’s normally time to doze off at night so that our body can heal itself.

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Yippee! What I’m going through has a name.

Going to sleep at 4:00 in the morning, sometimes 5:00, and waking up just a few minutes before noon—or thereabouts—is not plain laziness!

It’s called delayed sleep phase disorder and the New York Times’ Dr. Harris and Dr. Thorpy has this to say:

“Patients with delayed sleep phase disorder, or D.S.P.D., usually have difficulty falling asleep, but once they fall asleep they have no difficulty obtaining a full night’s sleep and typically sleep until late morning or early afternoon.”

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I’ve been freelancing online since February of last year and I can say it’s absolutely one of the BEST decisions I have ever made in my entire money-making life. Besides the fact that I work on MY time schedule (more or less!), I got to earn on the side while I still had a regular day job. When it was time for me to go freelancing full time, I’ve already established a good portfolio and a higher hourly rate.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. If you’re an absolute newbie to the online freelancing life, you probably want an answer to this one burning question first:

How do I start making money as a freelancer online?

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Welcome to the first ever edition of the Writing for Money blog carnival. Every other Friday, watch this blog for advice from other writers as they deliver neat tips and nifty tricks on the different aspects of conquering the online freelancing world. If you have blog posts or articles of your own that you want to include in the next edition, scroll down to the end of this post for instructions.

Happy reading!

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Before You Being Writing for Money Online

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Making a living writing for money online is one of the happiest decisions I’ve made in my entire life, and it could be one of yours, too. No more bitchy bosses who resembles constipated drill sergeants on the warpath. No more starchy business suits and power lunches with quota-driven executives. You can write anywhere, anytime in any position wearing any clothes. Only your husband or your cat (or dog) would raise an eyebrow (or two) at the odd choices and noises you make while working.

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Ei, fellow Pinoy online freelancer / blogger / internet marketer / writer / net junkie / and fill-in-the-blanks-job-title (read: whatever you call yourself online)!

This here is the future site of Freelance Grind, where you’ll read the ramblings and thoughts of a Pinoy online freelancer on writing, blogging, working at home, internet marketing, copywriting, and whatever whatchamacallits that are important to living, working and breathing the connected life.