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Melinda Crow
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Camping Colorado: A Comprehensive Guide to Hundreds of Campgrounds
Camping Colorado: A Comprehensive Guide to Hundreds of Campgrounds

A Comprehensive Guide to Hundreds of Campgrounds (State Camping Series)

2020

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Melinda Crow
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Scroll down for more of my latest stories — Index of popular stories by topic My Do-It-Yourself Medium Base Pay Plan BONUS: Mel's Writing Templates Writing, Creativity, & Productivity Social Media, Side Gigs, & Marketing Travel, Culture, Life, & Relationships Politics, Healthcare, & Equality My Writer's Toolkit Series for The Writer's Cooperative

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·Jun 24

My Writing is Worth $100 Per Hour and It’s AI Proof

Yours can be too with this plan. — I don’t write for less than $100 per hour — and I have all the work I want. My goal is to get my minimum hourly rate even higher. I also AI-proof my work. Don’t read that wrong. I’m not talking about using AI to proofread my work (which I…

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My Writing is Worth $100 Per Hour and It’s AI Proof
My Writing is Worth $100 Per Hour and It’s AI Proof
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Breakout Writing

·Oct 5, 2022

How Will AI Tools Affect the Freelance Writing Market?

A veteran writer responds — I used an extensive AI writing program yesterday for the first time. I qualified that sentence with “extensive” because we’ve all been using AI to help us write since the invention of spellcheck. And like spellcheck, I’m pretty sure AI tools can be a help or a hinderance to quality…

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How Will AI Tools Affect the Freelance Writing Market?
How Will AI Tools Affect the Freelance Writing Market?
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Breakout Writing

·Oct 4, 2022

Top 5 Reasons You Need a Micro Website

And where to get one free — Last week I told you about my new free website on GoDaddy. I used their free (except for the domain purchase) program called Websites + Marketing. My site has email collection, the ability to use PayPal Buy Now Buttons without upgrading to a paid plan that has a complete storefront…

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Top 5 Reasons You Need a Micro Website
Top 5 Reasons You Need a Micro Website
Writing

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Breakout Writing

·Sep 26, 2022

I Spent 2 Hours and Ten Minutes Building a Free Godaddy Website

It has a blog, photo galleries, subscriber email signup and more. — If you follow my work here on Medium, you’ll know I love to try new things that have the potential to help writers and report back on how it went. My latest adventure was building a free website on Godaddy. First things first, there are no affiliate links in this…

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I Spent 2 Hours and Ten Minutes Building a Free Godaddy Website
I Spent 2 Hours and Ten Minutes Building a Free Godaddy Website
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Breakout Writing

·Jul 30, 2022

Forget Everything I Said About Covered Press

They pivoted, but I’ve got a step-by-step pitching routine that works — I am chuckling as I write this. Almost immediately after I put together a bit of a tirade answering questions generated by my story Right Now, Writers Can Make Money — Lot’s of It, particularly the questions concerning my non-existent financial connection to a site called Covered Press, that site…

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Forget Everything I Said About Covered Press
Forget Everything I Said About Covered Press
Writing

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Breakout Writing

·Jul 25, 2022

I’m Hauling in the Cash Writing, Are You?

Answers to your questions about how to capitalize on the current demand for writers — At the end of last month I put together a quick story about the state of the job market for writers: Right Now, Writers Can Make Money — Lots of It. It was based on a couple of things. The first is what I am personally experiencing and hearing from…

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I’m Hauling in the Cash Writing, Are You?
I’m Hauling in the Cash Writing, Are You?
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Breakout Writing

·Jun 28, 2022

Right Now, Writers Can Make Money — Lots of It

If you aren’t loading up garbage bags of cash right now, you’re doing it wrong — Note: Edited with updates on Covered Press. I rarely do this, but this story has a life of its own — it just keeps finding new readers and I really don’t want to mislead with outdated information. Let’s start from the top with a quick timeline: 2019 — Writing life was great for some, not so hot for others. …

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Right Now, Writers Can Make Money —  Lot’s of It
Right Now, Writers Can Make Money —  Lot’s of It
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Bad Daughter

·Mar 13, 2022

Dementia is the Slowest Form of Torture Known to Man

And I can no longer tell who is suffering the most, me or my dad. — It’s been almost two and a half years since I started this publication. Of course, the torture started before that and has been unrelenting. I’ve reached a point of mostly numbness. I don’t have the strength to argue any more. I barely have the strength to go see my dad…

Dementia

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Dementia is the Slowest Form of Torture Known to Man
Dementia is the Slowest Form of Torture Known to Man
Dementia

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Oct 12, 2021

Some Oldies But Goodies from PS I Love You and The Ascent

P.S. This is how you breath new life into your older stories — I thoroughly enjoyed writing on PS I Love You and The Ascent. I also miss reading these to fabulous publications. I hope you enjoy my meager contributions. The Slide Into Dementia is Not What You Think It Is Here’s what it looks like from a daughter’s point of viewpsiloveyou.xyz Letter to My 70-Year-Old Self Writing a letter to your future self is way more useful than giving advice to your teenage self, don’t you think?psiloveyou.xyz

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Some Oldies But Goodies from PS I Love You and The Ascent
Some Oldies But Goodies from PS I Love You and The Ascent
Writing

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Melinda Crow

Melinda Crow

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30-year freelancer. Found on: Newsweek, The Points Guy, Cruise Critic, MSN Travel, Writing Cooperative. Falcon Guide author. https://melindacrow.substack.com/

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