[twigs]

Business writing, eh? If I knew how to break into that market as a free-lancer, I would love to do that. I was a marketing/PR professional for years. Back in school now to get certified to teach.

[John Robertson]

not to appear ungrateful, but i hope you find the time to address the main part of my response to you--which is, am i on the right track re your approach to avoiding writer's block? please advise and clarify, if you can.

re business writing...it's cold out there. UNLESS you have a personal contact at a company. i've snagged freelance work out of the ether, but it hasn't come close to what i've gotten through personal contact. for starters, calling yourself a "corporate communications" specialist is a great start. if it's been a while, work at smaller companies, to get some recent credits, then go up from there. i get $100 an hour from my current best big client, and they're happy to pay it and never watch the hours racking up. for a small company, a few million dollars in sales, i'd create marketing, pr, articles, speeches for half or even less than half of that, hoping that it would graduate in time to bigger companies, better rates. the hard part of corp. writing is getting the gigs, not doing it. bye.