Roy Sarkar

Thanks #FreelanceFriends team!

I'm in the aisle seat so my view is mostly someone's shoulder and a little clouds.

Fall colours happening where I left; will find out about the destination shortly!

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I wonder what they'd have to say about mixed case 🙂

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Hi, Amy!

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We have our moments but definitely not global news every day

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One of my clients shifted to this model and I was okay with it.

I learned more about AI and still got paid, they learned the value of human creativity and ability to think beyond the prompt (like bringing in brand consistency, real examples, changing up sentence structure).

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All caps for sure – makes it clear that it's an acronym.

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Late to #FreelanceFriends (on a flight from one side of Canada to another)...

I'm Roy, copywriter for B2B tech brands.

Currently over Manitoba where the sun is shining through to the aisle seat ☀️

Hey, #FreelanceFriends! Can you believe it's almost October? Since it's the first Thursday of a new month, we will host our Open Mic Hour on October 2 at 11 am CST on Bluesky. Bring your small biz questions!

4 hours before short story submission: maybe I'll tweak these sentences to foreshadow the ending

2 hours before: add a bit of worldbuilding to avoid confusion

1 hour: what is this character even doing?!

10 minutes: WHAT AM I EVEN DOING

Carling Ave. Pothole Hurdles

Thinking about joining this #FirstDraftFall challenge, as I have a magical heist novel that hasn't written itself yet 🤔

Good luck — it's definitely worth it.

Tomorrow I'm hosting a modified version of the #FreelanceFriends chat here on Bluesky at 11am CST. One question. One hour. I felt this would be more fun than canceling the chat due to a client meeting. AH, freelance life! Always agile!

I hope the copywriter made a lot of dough with this one

Quaint chalkboard sign stating, "Knead a sweet treat? Come on in!" The handle @thebritanniabakeshop is on top and little illustrated pastries are underneath.

If you could make a living writing punny chalkboard signs, I'd be knead-deep in it

I am stealing this very excellent idea.

Nice harvest!

Me: *tells clients that I'll be on PTO (paid time off) next month*

Also me, a freelancer: doesn't get paid for time off

View from a hightop table onto a brightly lit coffee shop, with potted plants, plastic tables and chairs, and a painting of an owl. The top of a laptop screen takes up the corner.

Finalizing a first draft at my favourite coffee shop this morning

Tomorrow I'm hosting the #FreelanceFriends chat here on Bluesky at 11am CST. We will chat about managing our MANY incoming online pings, dings and other notifications! Join us! Simply follow the hashtag. ~ Angela 😃

Despite having like a hundred bookmarks purchased, gifted, and picked up randomly, I still use grocery receipts and bus tickets 🤷🏽

Coffee shop interior, all woods and hanging lamps and snoeshoes on the wall. A window view opens to muskoka chairs and a blue-sided building outside.

Plant growing all out of a glass jar with a masking tape label stating, "You grow, girl!"

Brass-plated and riveted countertop with a sticker saying "you are beautiful." A Britannia Coffeehouse gift card sits beside it.

Favourite coffee shop this morning

A hardcover book titled "The Fiend Folio" with an illustrated figure of a yellowish, ape-faced monster wielding a sword on the cover (it's a githyanki). A banner proclaiming "Advanced D&D adventure games" slashes across the top left, and the publisher is TSR.

That has definitely happened before, but it's been a while.

Now I'm distracted by this ancient artifact:

Watched it every Saturday morning on CBC, which led to watching Star Trek III, stolen over the air from First Choice/Superchannel, in black & white.

Loved it ever since.

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Die-cast models of the USS Enterprise and a Klingon Bird of Prey sitting atop black stands shaped as the Starfleet delta symbol. A tartan-patterned coffee mug sits behind them.

Happy #StarTrekDay from my two writing companions! 🖖🏽

I like changing it up, too. Press releases are the worst — quotes are the same now as they were 20 years ago.

Oh interesting. This is a charm hydrangea, which said part sun/shade at the store, but who knows.

I'll likely leave it over winter and see what happens next year. If it's still dying, I will move it to full sun and a less crowded area.

It made it through multiple reviewers and rounds of reviews! Quite surprised, actually.

I believe your phone settings would override anything set on the desktop version. Both the Bluesky phone app and your notification settings under system settings.

Like, I've had cases where notifications were ON in the app, and OFF in the system settings — the system wins every time.

Good luck!