Sharon Hurley Hall

Late last year, I posted a list of my articles on Life123. The site has since reorganised its navigation, so I’m posting the list again with the right links. Here they are:

Freelance Writing

• Five Freelance Writing Lessons
• How to Set Writing Goals
• Organizing a Home Office for Writing
• Dealing With Wrist Tendonitis
• Essential Writing Tools for Freelancers
• How Freelancers Can Build Web-Writing Skills for Free
• Three Quick Ways to Create a Freelance Writing Portfolio
• A Writers’ Guide to Provisions of Copyright Law
• Get More Freelance Writing Opportunities: Know the Market, Know Thyself
• A Guide to Ghostwriting
• DIY Freelance Writing Self Promotion

Home and Garden

• Quick Guide to Stain Removal
• Save Money with Natural Cleaning Products from the Pantry
• How to Organize Schedules for Cleaning
• How to Buy a Used Car From a Private Party
• How to Buy a Car From a Dealership
• Six Ways To Find Cheap Airline Tickets

Pregnancy and Parenting

• Understanding Pregnancy Ultrasounds
• How to Prevent Stretch Marks
• Coping with Postpartum Depression
• A Guide to Fertility Treatment Options
• Creating A  Birth Plan
• A Guide To Your Fertility Cycle
• Facts About Open Adoption
• Finding A Nanny
• Understanding Closed Adoption

Health and Safety

• A Parents’ Guide to Teenage Obesity
• How to Stay Healthy Over 50
• What Are ADD and ADHD?
• Eating Well Over 50
• Human Aging Process
• Back to School Safety Tips for Parents
• Vacation and Travel Safety for Kids
• Water Safety for Kids
• Issues with Teens and Social Networking
• Air Travel Tips For Flying With Children

I enjoy writing reviews of the products and services I use. Here’s a list of the reviews published (mostly) on consumer reviews sites.

Time To Get Clicky

Dooyoo profile

• Lush Slammer – a holiday in a bottle
• Still in cable chaos
• Beauty, brains and bumps: the Palmone Lifedrive
• Vistaprint does the business
• Think thin
• Layers within layers
• ‘Merchant’ shows Will power
• Once upon a time I fell asleep
• Time travelling with Leonard
• Quiet but solid technology
• Walking with the Gruffalo
• Why we love caterpillars
• Hiding out at the Hotel Rwanda
• Things can only get better
• All that glitters is not gold
• Good things come in small packages
• Still a good second hand buy – Samsung ML1210
• Samsung CLP-500 – just what a printer should be
• Philips DVDR80 – a useful replacement for your VCR
• Good performance from Dimage X50
• Dimage X50 – a compact winner

Ciao profile

• A pig’s ear of a film

Epinions profile

ReviewCentre profile

Articles on Dooyoo

• DIY house move: does it have to be a hassle?
• Kids and restaurants: avoiding mealtime mayhem
• The loves of my life
• Ten sites for sore eyes
• Dooyoo member interview

What I Learned From Writing Reviews

This is not so much a new writing gig, as a successor to an old one. I used to write for Garden and Hearth, which eventually became part of Life123.  Hence, a new site and new articles, covering not only writing, but parenting and health issues. Here’s a list of what I’ve posted on that site so far:

Freelance Writing

• Five Freelance Writing Lessons
• How to Set Writing Goals
• Create a Home Office for Writing
• How to Write with One Hand
• Essential Writing Tools for Freelancers
• Freelancers: Build Web-Writing Skills
• Three Quick Ways to Create Freelance Writing Clips
• A Writers’ Guide to Copyright Law
• Freelance Writing Markets
• A Guide to Ghostwriting
• Promoting Your Freelance Writing

Home and Garden

• Quick Guide to Stain Removal
• Save Money with Natural Cleaning Products from the Pantry
• How To Organize Schedules For Cleaning
• How To Buy A Used Car From A Private Party

Pregnancy and Parenting

• Understanding Pregnancy Ultrasounds
• Preventing Stretch Marks
• Coping with Postpartum Depression
• A Guide To Fertility Treatments
• Creating A  Birth Plan
• A Guide To Your Fertility Cycle
• Facts About Open Adoption
• Finding A Nanny
• Understanding Closed Adoption

Health and Safety

• A Parents’ Guide to Teenage Obesity
• Staying Healthy Over 50
• What Are ADD and ADHD
• Eating Well Over 50
• How We Age
• Back to School Safety Tips for Parents
• Vacation and Travel Safety for Kids
• Water Safety for Kids
• Issues With Teens And Social Networking
• Air Travel Tips For Flying With Children

I’ll be updating the links as the articles go live.