How to Ignore a Recipe: French Fruit Tart
Okay, a quick disclaimer: I made this tart for my wife’s birthday yesterday, so I didn’t ignore the recipe nearly as much as I normally would. Some things are sacred, like French pastries and my wife (not in that order) and shouldn’t be mucked with too much. Plus baking scares the bejesus out of me—enough [...]
Freelance-ology: Proceeding with Trepidation
When I declared yesterday that I’m launching a quasi-scientific experiment on the content aggregator Helium.com, I expected reactions to look something like this: Eek! Don’t do it! I don’t know anything about it but it must be bad! or Yippee! Do it! I’m paid by Helium.com to encourage you! Instead, I got responses more like [...]
Freelance-ology: My Helium Experiment Begins
I’ve been dropping snark bombs on Helium.com. It’s time to give them a second chance—and let the scientific method decide if content aggregators are friends or foes to freelance writers. A couple weeks ago Tim Beyers, a far-more-successful-yet-nonetheless-fellow freelance writer, took a flying drop kick at the virtual hornet’s nest that is content aggregation while [...]
