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· For the past five years I’ve been living my dream, working as a writer-for-hire. · For the previous fifteen-or-so I was living my nightmare, working in customer services management and corporate HR. · I write for myself (on here, mostly) and for my clients (on their websites and in…

Hello

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Hi, I’m Nina
Hi, I’m Nina
Hello

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Published in Freelance Writing, etc.

·Mar 15

“I am unable to agree to your required fee structure”: another meeting with That Bloke

I get to the café fifteen minutes early. Always best when you’re meeting a potential client; there’s nothing worse than rushing in late, muttering a breathless apology as you wrench arms out of unwilling coat sleeves. Choosing a quiet corner table, I order a black coffee and glance through my…

Freelance Life

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“I am unable to agree to your required fee structure”: another meeting with That Bloke
“I am unable to agree to your required fee structure”: another meeting with That Bloke
Freelance Life

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Mar 10

Writing for my soul (rather than clicks and cash)

Around the middle of last year, something started bugging me about my writing. What, I didn’t know. I was regularly churning out pieces here, there, and everywhere, so it wasn’t about quantity. The problem, I soon realised, was that I had started to write either to try and solve a…

Writing For Fun

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Writing for my soul (rather than clicks and cash)
Writing for my soul (rather than clicks and cash)
Writing For Fun

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Published in Freelance Writing, etc.

·Mar 1

Turning Down ‘Big Money’ Freelance Work

As an anti-social introvert, life as an employed person was challenging for me, my bosses, and my poor colleagues alike. To paraphrase the Backstreet Boys, I want things my way. So when I became a freelance writer in 2016, I found my personal work heaven. I can make as many…

Freelancing

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Turning Down ‘Big Money’ Freelance Work
Turning Down ‘Big Money’ Freelance Work
Freelancing

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Feb 20

How (Not) to Be a Stepmother

You say “wicked”, I say “stepmother”. Everybody knows her. She’s the evil cow who abandoned Hansel and Gretel in the forest. She poisoned Snow White with a blood-red apple. She used Cinderella as unpaid slave-labour, whilst lavishing love and riches upon her own daughters. The “wicked stepmother” isn’t the sole…

Stepparent

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How (Not) to Be a Stepmother
How (Not) to Be a Stepmother
Stepparent

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Published in Everyday Childfree

·Feb 10

Is the ‘childfree mid-lifer’ reality TV’s last taboo?

“The younger generation is not used to (a 50-year-old woman) deciding anything, and has never doubted that the pinnacle of her happiness has been achieved waiting on it hand and foot.” Germaine Greer A former boss once told me he’d had “second thoughts about your level of intelligence” on hearing…

Childfree

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Is the ‘childfree mid-lifer’ reality TV’s last taboo?
Is the ‘childfree mid-lifer’ reality TV’s last taboo?
Childfree

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Published in Notes on Identity

·Jan 27

Help! I’m a Perimenopausal Bride-to-Be

Warning: this could be nothing but a long, angry, teary, rant. That’s the mood I’m in right now, but by the time I get to the end… who knows? That’s what perimenopause is like. You can’t possibly predict how you’re going to feel, even in the time it takes to…

Perimenopause

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Help! I’m a Perimenopausal Bride-to-Be
Help! I’m a Perimenopausal Bride-to-Be
Perimenopause

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Published in Notes on Identity

·Jan 20

Finding my estrangement “why”

Hang on… isn’t this title a bit weird? If you’re going to cut your own mother out of your life, you might think there’d be a clear and compelling reason. But in my case, there wasn’t… or at least, no reason I could articulate in an understandable way. Even I…

Estrangement

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Finding my estrangement “why”
Finding my estrangement “why”
Estrangement

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Published in Freelance Writing, etc.

·Jan 13

When Old Friends Unsubscribe From Your Email Newsletter

There’s almost nothing good about email newsletters. I write each of mine with a loud inner sigh, because I know my carefully-chosen words will be skim-read at best, automatically deleted at worst. Either way, they’ll be wasted. I know this because I rarely read email newsletters myself, even if they’re…

MailChimp

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When Old Friends Unsubscribe From Your Email Newsletter
When Old Friends Unsubscribe From Your Email Newsletter
MailChimp

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Jan 3

First Facebook, Now Twitter: Leaving Social Media Behind

If I said leaving Twitter was hard, I’d be lying. I’d prepared myself by having already left Facebook, back in October 2022. I expected that to hurt, because I’d had a Facebook account since 2009, and together we’d faced down all kinds of life-crap. But I only felt relieved, which…

Leaving Twitter

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First Facebook, Now Twitter: Leaving Social Media Behind
First Facebook, Now Twitter: Leaving Social Media Behind
Leaving Twitter

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