Freelance Dilemma: Brainstorming New Ideas

For the past six or seven weeks, I’ve been participating in Freelance Success‘s Query Challenge.

The last time I participated, I broke into new markets and gained a whole lot of momentum in my freelance writing career. This time around, I’m floundering. A lot of that is due to the fact that I’m juggling so many different things right now: I work in NYC three days a week, have various copywriting gigs on my plate, and am in the midst of launching my career coaching practice/taking on practicum clients. For these reasons (and because I’m finding that–more and more often–work is coming to me), sending out queries is just a much smaller part of my freelance life at this point.

But the other reason I’m floundering–both in this query challenge and on my blog lately–is because I haven’t been generating new ideas.

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