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    Turning Setbacks into Opportunity: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
    Turning Setbacks into Opportunity: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
    Turning Setbacks into Opportunity: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
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    Turning Setbacks into Opportunity: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    Setbacks happen to everyone. Surviving them is hard. Surviving failure is even harder. But every successful person has had at least three failures before finding that success. So how do you turn failure to success? The answers lie in this short book by international bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateAug 9, 2010
    ISBN9781452321981
    Turning Setbacks into Opportunity: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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      Turning Setbacks into Opportunity - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Setbacks happen to everyone. Surviving them is hard. Surviving failure is even harder. But every successful person has had at least three failures before finding that success. So how do you turn failure to success? Read on…

      Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

      A Freelancer’s Survival Guide Short Book

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Copyright Information

      Copyright © 2012 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      First published in 2009 and 2010 in slightly different versions on kristinekathrynrusch.com.

      Published by WMG Publishing

      Layout and design © copyright 2012 WMG Publishing

      Cover design by Allyson Longueira/WMG Publishing

      Cover art © copyright Iqoncept/Dreamstime

      Smashwords Edition

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved.

      This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      List of all the

      Freelancer’s Survival Guide

      Short Books

      When to Quit Your Day Job

      Getting Started

      Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

      Goals and Dreams

      How to Negotiate Anything

      The Secrets of Success

      How to Make Money

      Networking in Person and Online

      Time Management

      Turning Setbacks into Opportunity

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Setbacks

      Failure

      The Benefits of Hindsight

      About the Author

      Copyright Information

      Introduction

      We all fail. Sometimes we fail spectacularly. The key isn’t preventing failure. The key is picking ourselves up, dusting ourselves off, and moving forward.

      Easier said than done, of course. Most of us want to do everything we can to prevent failure.

      This short book is three chapters of a huge how-to book called The Freelancer’s Survival Guide, which was initially published on my blog, kristinekathrynrusch.com. The entire Guide is available as both an e- and a paperback book. But this piece will work better if you remember it was initially published as weekly blog posts and written in real time in 2009 and 2010.

      Turning Setbacks into Opportunity is part of the Freelancer’s Guide Short Book series. I carved some of the entries in the Guide into short books because not everyone wants all of the advice in the larger Guide. Sometimes people buy how-to books for one small section. If you’re one of those people, then this short book is for you. I hope it answers all of your questions about surviving setbacks, recovering from failure, and using hindsight to solve future problems.

      If you want to see how others responded or if you want to see the original posts, go to my blog, kristinekathrynrusch.com, and click on the Freelancer’s Survival Guide tab at the top. That will take you to the table of contents. The posts are clearly marked.

      I hope this short book will help you avoid trouble. If you’re already in trouble, I hope it’ll help you resolve your problems.

      —Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Lincoln City, Oregon

      July 29, 2010

      Setbacks

      Let’s start by being completely honest: Setbacks hurt. And I don’t simply mean that they hurt your business. They hurt personally. They’re embarrassing, difficult, infuriating, and terrifying. They make us feel as if this hasn’t happened to anyone else before ever, and yet they happen to all of us.

      They happen in successful businesses as well as unsuccessful ones. They happen in start-ups and they happen in long-term businesses.

      The real key with setbacks isn’t preventing them; it’s surviving them when they happen. Over the years, I’ve become a connoisseur of setbacks. I’m not interested in other people’s misfortunes (except as a grist for my own fiction), but I am interested in how other people survive those misfortunes.

      In other words, I am an inveterate studier of setback recovery. And believe it or not, that’s a hard thing to study, since most people hide their misfortunes, and do so very well. They pretend that nothing has gone wrong, and most of us remain fooled, partly because we can’t see deeply into other people’s lives unless they let us, and partly because we really don’t pay attention to anything outside of our circle, unless we’re forced to.

      I spend a lot of my time imagining what would happen if. In fact, that’s my job. I must imagine what would happen if, because that phrase is at the heart of all fiction. So it’s only inevitable that sometimes I turn what would happen if from what would happen if Godzilla suddenly appeared on the Oregon Coast to "what would happen if I suddenly lost every dime

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