Freelance Union

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What creative ideas, projects, or initiatives are you hatching right now? Oh, because if you’re a freelancer or creative business owner, I know you’ve got a thing or two (or twelve!) Goal: Write a fun, actionable, business book to help creative freelancers build a fulfilling, efficient, and profitable creative business.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Claude can generate various forms of text content, such as summaries, creative works, and code. Chatbots have emerged as one of the most common forms of generative AI. Claude AI is a chatbot built with ethics and safety in mind. Heres an overview of what Claude AI is, how to use it, and which limitations you should be mindful of.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 18, 2025

As creative industries shift, we have to shift with them I was ready to embark upon the fifth iteration of my website. Her recommendations clashed with my creative instincts. I was active enough at the time that I could enjoy my online obscurity. Not a recipe for online success, but that kind of success wasnt currency until the 2010s.

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Nick Ursborne

MAY 12, 2024

As a budding young copywriter in the early 1980s, I worked with an art director as my partner, and our work was overseen by the agency’s creative director. Creative directors were at the top of the pile in Creative Departments. They shaped the overall creative output of the agency. But… where’s the creative director?

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 14, 2025

Also called Chasing Portraits , the film wasnt a replica of the book. Instead, the film echoed the story I told in my book. That said, I should be clear: I didnt actually dodge the slump, I just postponed itI hit the proverbial wall when it came to finding project number three. Eventually, I had a manuscript. But then something remarkable happened.

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Agency Content Writer

DECEMBER 2, 2024

They combine creativity with technical skills to ensure the content meets audience needs and organizational goals. Skills Required for Content Authors Content authors must possess a combination of technical and creative skills to succeed. What exactly is the role of a content author? What is a Content Author?

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Grammarly

MARCH 26, 2025

In this guide, youll discover 17 brainstorming techniques designed to help you generate, organize, and refine your ideas: Classic techniques like freewriting and mind mapping to get your creativity flowing. They help you tap into creativity, overcome writers block, and generate ideas freelywithout worrying about perfection.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Henneke’s class on Stories in Miniature was just the creative boost that I needed. I’m feeling much more creative and can spot the dull areas. Pushy salesmen pushed them to buy a fully loaded, feature-rich memory foam mattress. For $3,300 it should have been the pinnacle of comfort, but it wasn’t. It was like car shopping. Like this.”

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Grammarly

MARCH 23, 2025

Brainstorming is a powerful way to spark creativity and generate ideas in the writing process. Whether youre working on a novel , an academic essay , or a blog , brainstorming helps you see your project from a new angle and break through creative roadblocks. Overcomes writers block: It provides a clear process to jump-start creativity.

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Backlinko

JULY 10, 2024

Each page focuses on a different search intent, such as game development, planning, creative management, and more. Search engines have difficulty determining the most relevant and authoritative page for the target keyword. Ultimately, all of these pages can get stuck in lower positions in search results.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Creativity can feel a lot like those unreliable game cartridges. Every successful writer develops creative habits to help them get their version of Zelda back on the screen. Every successful writer develops creative habits to help them get their version of Zelda back on the screen. Sometimes it worked; sometimes it didn’t.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But I do believe in creative planning for authors, the kind of plan that recognises the power of the subconscious. Without a system to integrate the learnings from the inevitable failures and vagaries of the creative life, sub-par performance and associated discouragement become almost inevitable. It doesn’t have to be like this.

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Nick Ursborne

DECEMBER 18, 2024

” It’s time to get creative and strategic with your prompts. Advanced AI Applications for Copywriters Beyond generating basic copy and content, AI can be used for a variety of advanced tasks that can significantly streamline your workflow and enhance your creativity. In this post I worked with Gemini 1.5

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Jane Friedman

JULY 18, 2024

It’s the old right next to the new again—both wonderfully creative in their own right. These are signs of a city that doesn’t just honor the creators of its past; it also celebrates and encourages the creativity of the people there now. But none of that is the reason why Florence is my top choice for a writing retreat. on April 25.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2025

Red-cheeked and brimming with enthusiasm, you had written your first draft. You knew it was good. To celebrate, you pour yourself a glass of wine, before going to bed. Editing is for tomorrow. But when you read your draft again … You feel disappointed. Your writing sounds bland. You can’t publish it like this. What happened?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 1, 2025

2024 was a year of consolidation as I got my creative house in order and began to shift my creative and business processes. 2024 was a year of consolidation as I got my creative house in order and began to shift my creative and business processes. If youd like to share your goals, please add them in the comments below.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 23, 2024

Human creativity isn’t a “problem” that generative AI can solve. The best it can offer is sophisticated mediocrity. Yet hyperbolic statements from gen AI companies may convince your organization’s leadership otherwise. Don’t fall for it.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 22, 2024

How can you balance self-care with achieving your creative goals. In April 2020, back in pandemic times, I talked to poet and creative coach Mark McGuinness about how to stay creative in difficult times. How can you create when there's an overwhelming list of things to do and too many competing priorities? It affects us.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 31, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from Tarot for Creativity: A Guide for Igniting Your Creative Practice by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi. In the early stages of building her business, she came to me to explore the ways that tarot could support and inspire her as a creative business owner. So, the Fool became Nina’s creative archetype.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 13, 2025

How can you balance creativity with business in order to have a profitable, long-term author career? In the intro, the money episode [ Ink In Your Veins ]; WISE for multi-currency banking ; creative planning tips for 2025 [ Self~Publishing Advice ]; Surprising Trends Authors Cant Ignore in 2025 [ Novel Marketing Podcast ].

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Photo by Edz Norton on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted from Tarot for Storytellers: A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives by Kris Waldherr. Stories help us make sense of our life, seek creative solutions, find connections, and to experience empathy for others. Published by Muse Publications LLC. I’m a storyteller.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ina Garten, if youre reading ) If youre interested in trying the Pomodorini technique to reignite your creative life and improve your writerly wellbeing this year, here are a few tips you might find helpful: 1. Worse, Ive become all too aware of the ill-effects that not writing have on my mood and well-being. The Pomodoro technique is great.

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 25, 2025

And their very last sentence encourages readers to implement their advice by telling them it’s not as hard as they might think: And most of the time we don’t even have to use much creativity to harness these powers—we just need to be ready to spot the good ones that life generates every day. Sound familiar?

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The Hoth

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thats why they use creative tactics like distributing press releases to generate buzz amongst online journalists. Prior to the internet, traditional PR involved reaching out to the press via print media like magazines and newspapers. What is Digital PR? The only thing that differs is the marketing channels that you use. Content creation.

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Ashleyn Writes

JANUARY 10, 2025

Today, Im sharing five AI prompts that Ill carry into this yearand Im convinced theyll supercharge your creativity and efficiency too. VOC data (or what our Copywriting for Creatives students call it, “CVH” for Client/Customer Voice Hacking) is how you decode the messaging that resonates with your audience. I included both.

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Grammarly

APRIL 18, 2024

You can generate text for various business, personal, academic, or creative applications. Learn what Gemini is, how to use it, and which potential shortcomings to avoid. Table of contents What is Gemini? How Gemini works Gemini release date Is Gemini free? Google Gemini, previously known as Google Bard, is an AI-powered chatbot.

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 11, 2025

Updating and repurposing requires a different creative mindset from creating something new. Daniel Pink suggests in his book Drive that intrinsic motivation boosts creativity (and extrinsic motivation might even hamper creativity). Do you ever get close to content burnout? A year ago, I became active on LinkedIn. What worked?

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Freelance Union

DECEMBER 13, 2024

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from working with creative freelancers and small business owners for a couple of decades – most of you don’t love marketing – am I right? There’s a reason why my most popular webinar is called Marketing For Creatives Who Hate Marketing !). What do you say?

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Grammarly

APRIL 10, 2024

Users can feed it various types of data, and in return, GPT-4 can produce outputs that include detailed written passages, in-depth explanations, computer code, and creative compositions, all in a manner that closely mimics human thought and language patterns. Table of contents What is GPT-4? Who created GPT-4? How GPT-4 works Is GPT-4 free?

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AI tools, like Grammarly, are helping enterprises optimize every stage of the content marketing process, from brainstorming ideas that will resonate with audiences to refining content for various audiences and channels, resulting in improved creativity, efficiency, and measurable results.

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Freelance Union

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What creative ideas, projects, or initiatives are you hatching right now? Oh, because if you’re a freelancer or creative business owner, I know you’ve got a thing or two (or twelve!) Goal: Write a fun, actionable, business book to help creative freelancers build a fulfilling, efficient, and profitable creative business.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 15, 2025

Photo by Masood Aslami Todays post is by writer and creativity coach Anne Carley ( @amcarley.bsky.social ) who believes#becomingunstuck is an ongoing process. As creative people we want to be aloneand sometimes need to be. Were not alone. But underneath it all, were not alone. Its easy for me to forget this truth, and to my detriment.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Photo by Anna Shvets Todays post, the fifth in a series, is by writer and creativity coach Anne Carley ( @amcarley.bsky.social ), author of FLOAT Becoming Unstuck for Writers , now in its second edition. Accept some inevitable chaos Another is to accept the erratic nature of the creative process, which is rarely linear or swift.

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Grammarly

JANUARY 27, 2025

Known for their ability to understand and generate humanlike language, GPTs have become a cornerstone of modern AI applications, offering solutions in creativity, productivity, and data analysis. Unlike models focused solely on classification or prediction, GPTs generate original outputs such as text, code, or creative content.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 25, 2025

Creativity in structure A significant part of a novels creativity lies in the manipulation of its structure, as we will see in the following examples. However, if you look back through the classics, almost every novel features these plot points, though not always in the same arrangement.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2025

How to stay creative Creativity can seem fickle. Secondly, review what else is required to keep your creative soul happy. What feeds your creative soul? Get out of your comfort zone There are 3 creative zones: The inner zone is your comfort zone, where you create on auto-pilot and risk going stale. A newsletter.

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Enchanting Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The beauty of discomfort I like the creative part of me. Creative work is inherently scary. But even more so because creativity requires showing up and being vulnerable. This year, I’ve struggled to pinpoint just one lesson because it feels like it’s been a year of relearning and reinforcing several life lessons.

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