Comments on: Taking Care of Your Writing Clips

By: Forget Clean Your Fridge Day, Clean Up Your Article Files Day Rocks : Article Writing Tips

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:24:45 +0000

[...] Taking Care of Your Writing Clips [...]

By: Terreece Clarke

Terreece Clarke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:31:12 +0000

I think you should use the clips if they are great clips and they are relevant to your writing field/niche/focus. It doesn’t matter if the clip is old or the site is defunct, what matters is the writing. As long as you have a nice looking copy that will look good online then no worries.

By: Heather Smith

Heather Smith — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:57:07 +0000

I’m putting my Web site together for my freelance business, and some of my medical/health writing clips are nine years old. I’ve worked in so many industries since then. What do you think of posting older clips? It’s still relevant content, but the clips are unfortunately in black and white from DrugEmporium.com, a Web site that shut down in 2001. They’re great clips and I was their only content writer. However, I’ve also included clips to more current projects for Ensure and Similac on the same page…

By: Jeanne Grunert

Jeanne Grunert — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:18:22 +0000

I keep an Excel spreadsheet with the URLs, date of publication and company. I love the idea of saving items as PDF. There is a good free shareware PDF making program called PDF 995. You simply go to print, and instead of printing to a real printer, click on PDF 995 and it makes a file. It’s really great (no, I don’t make a kickback from them…it’s really free…)

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:23:45 +0000

As a tech savvy writer, i find that saving the clips as a PDF is by far the easiest things to do and it can be done after every job is complete.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:29:43 +0000

Thanks Terreece. I have been struggling with this very question lately. The PDF tip is my takeaway.

I have old clips, from my corporate years that are not online. While I have copies, would everyone suggest the scan and save method for those? or?

By: Writer’s Residence Blog » Blog Archive » Taking Care of Your Writing Clips

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:16:22 +0000

[...] Clarke has a few suggestions on today’s Freelance Writing Gigs. His key point is: make sure you have electronic versions of all of your articles stored in a [...]

By: Monica

Monica — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:54:47 +0000

Great post... I have all of my print clips stored in plastic sheets in a binder. I also have scanned PDFs and JPEGs on my computer. Things were a bit of a jumble until I started putting them on my website, much like Rupa is doing. This is one of the main reasons I created Writer's Residence - to help me and other writers manage their clips.

By: Rupa

Rupa — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:36:52 +0000

Thanks, Terreece. Your post jolted me out of my procrastination…I am guilty of doing what you mention – hunting for my clips while applying and adding them in the last minute! I have been working on a website + clip-system for some time now and realize I need to get it done…and fast. It’s waaay beyond my self-imposed deadline already. Will take your tip and get started asap..err..right away. Thanks!