‘Twas the night before Christmas, yet frantic at work Freelancers like me, just going berserk Wond’ring: would we finish the project on time? “This is hopeless. Impossible,” I started to whine. Frantically typing. There’s no time to slow. So fast… Read more…

I don’t think I’ve bought a flag before. Just never thought I needed one to make my life more complete. When it arrives in a couple of weeks (🤞) it’ll be gracing the wall in my office. You could say… Read more…

Just been out for a long walk. And — phew! — was it hot 🥵 Arrived home to find Vicki just about to mow our jungle-like front lawn. “Let me manicure that for you m’lady,” gallantly saith I. “Thank you,… Read more…

My chances of being a professional photographer were destroyed today. “They were destroyed already because you take crappy photos,” said a certain inner voice, entering from stage right. All-right. All-right. That’ll do. Gawsh! … I’ve got enough doubts and insecurities… Read more…

Full of bravado… I entered an ad-writing competition in January. “Of course I will win!” Rather proud of my entry I was. Today I was looking for something related to the topic… and stumbled across the file. Do I open… Read more…

Words matter. Punctuation matters too. One of my wife’s favorite books is: “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”. Subtitle: “The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation”. You see why the comma in the title matters, right? Pandas are normally fairly docile creatures. That… Read more…

I haven’t bugged ChatGPT much lately. But a quick jab in the ribs has him jumping to attention. Today’s prompt: “What is the number one way ChatGPT can ruin a copywriter’s career?” (I won’t share everthing he writes — too… Read more…

It’s Sunday… and things are moving a little slower around here. Plus it’s mailbag time. So here’s an answer I gave in a Facebook copywriting group I’m a member of. A couple of days ago someone there asked about Fiverr.… Read more…

Two days ago I wrote my email strictly to a 30-minute timer. I used AI transcription to get the email content out of my head and onto the page. Then yesterday I started with just a blank page. And blatted… Read more…

After yesterday’s email about writing using AI transcription. And taking 30 minutes to do it… I looked at the result and said to myself “that took 30 minutes?” It just looks too short an email to take that long. But… Read more…