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Ok, ok, I know it is not the best title I have ever created, but it is late, I am tired, and I need to strike the road a cruel blow of indifference and hit the hay.  Before I do, I just want to tell you about some fresh, new developments, that have happened, over the last few days.

A woman has been in touch via facebook, wanting to find out more information about writing for me.  Going by her messages, she is quite eloquent, and has a good command of English grammar.  This is particularly impressive as English is not her first language.  I have offered her the Precise English work which I spoke about a few nights before.  We shall see what happens.

Tonight I have completed two articles for Dreamtemplate, in pretty fast time.  They are good articles on blogging, listing common errors which bloggers make.  I found it interesting, that with the exception of two of them, I do not make those mistakes.  But enough of my modesty, in the process of researching these articles, I found a good website, called problogger.net.  This site is for freelance writers that wish to make money problogging, and I watched a video of a guy giving people tips on how to become a problogger.

It was good stuff, with some useful tips.  It did not however, list what is in my opinion the most essential element of landing blogging work, and that is to treat it as a numbers game.  The more you apply for, the more you land.  For me this is the golden rule, not just for blogging, but for freelance web content work in general.  I have applied for hundreds of  jobs, all of which I thought I had a good chance of landing, and not heard anything from, then the few you label as outsiders, get in touch and give you the work.  Logic seems to be absent, at least the way I understand logic.

I actually believe that there is something in your writing which appeals to a reader, regardless of the genre of writing, and this is what lands you the work.  It is your style above everything else that will appeal to someone, and though the quality has to be there, obviously, it is not quality alone that is going to get you that job.