Tag Archives: characteristics

Let Your Personality Shine Through

We talk a great deal here in the Home Business blog about various ways to go about “doing business.” Many of us get it into our heads that the “business person” in us is somehow a completely different entity than the “real” person that we are in every other aspect of our lives. In reality, we need to be ourselves even when we are working at our home businesses and it is important to let our true personality shine through as we network and build our business’ reputation. In my old life, working in nonprofit management and fundraising, I used … Continue reading →

What’s in a Name?

Every parent knows the importance of finding the right name for a child. As a fiction writer I also know how important it is to find the right name for my characters. I’ve written a little about it here. The wrong name can completely destroy the illusion a writer is trying to create. Sometimes the reader brings their own ideas to a book. That can work for a writer or against them, as happened with a recent novel I started to read. The main character, who was not exactly like likeable, had the same name as my daughter. Try as … Continue reading →

What Are the Characteristics of the Ideal Freelancer?

A couple weeks ago, someone asked me what I thought the qualities and characteristics of the “ideal” freelancer were—I couldn’t answer right away since my own experience as a freelance writer and work-from-homer is so tainted by my life as a single parent. But, I’ve had a couple weeks to mull it over and I thought we might have a little discussion here as well…What ARE the characteristics of the ideal freelancer? Flexibility and professionalism come to mind. A person has to be able to stay motivated and work from a home office full of distractions and changes, but still … Continue reading →

Let’s Talk About Naming Your Baby

Have you picked out a name for your baby yet? Chances are that you have, if you are nearing your due date, but perhaps you just found out you are pregnant. It may seem a long way off until baby is here, or maybe it doesn’t and you are already frantically searching baby books. Either way, naming a person can be daunting as well as exciting. Some people have names already picked before conception, and for those people it is easy. I used to be one of those people. My first child was named before even being conceived. The child … Continue reading →