by Clea | Jan 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
First up let me say that the beauty (and the terror) of great copy is that there aren’t all that many set rules. And the rules which do exist (like never starting a sentence with ‘and’) are made to be broken. Having been plugging away at a computer as a freelance...
by Clea | Dec 12, 2019 | business lessons
Creating content for magazines as a freelance feature writer is one of my favourite jobs. I love researching different topics and hearing about people’s passions and life’s work. A recent piece I wrote covered an unusual but surprisingly interesting topic:...
by Clea | Nov 6, 2019 | fun stuff|Uncategorized
A delightful coincidence brought a postcard back to its owner nearly 60 years after he sent it. This is totally a true story! It happened to my Dad 🙂 Back in 1961, as his plane prepared to descend into Russia, 20 year old David Jones hastily jotted a postcard to his...
by Clea | Sep 4, 2019 | Copy blogs
Never worked with a freelance copywriter before? Here’s an outline of the process to help you feel more confident about what’s coming next. To briefly introduce myself, I’m Clea Jones and I have been freelancing since 2015. Prior to that I worked in...
by Clea | Aug 2, 2019 | business lessons
How do you double your earnings? I set myself this goal after my husband Garrett fell ill at the end of 2018 and our household income came under sudden pressure. At the time, the money I was earning as a freelance copywriter was fine but we didn’t have a lot of...