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I’ve been lucky to be included in a lot of really great blog carnivals this week. Take a look:

My Writing Posts:

• My post on Reasons to Date a Writer was part of the Everything Worth Reading Carnival. Cool posts from that carnival include those on public speaking, love poems, blogging and stress.
• My Thoughts on Revealing your Writing Rates were included in the Make Money Blogging Carnival along with a whole slew of others posts on important blogging topics such as google adsense, word press, site indexing, niche marketing, keywords, Twitter and other social media. This same post was included in the carnival of struggling bumbling newbies.
• My opinion on A Writer’s Weekends was part of the business freelance writing carnival along with posts on article writing, book writing and marketing, doing reviews, building a portfolio and even some thoughts on defamation.
• My links to Hundreds of Resources for Writers were included on the Free the Internet carnival. Other interesting posts there were on blogging, eHow, search engine optimization, meta tags, web hosting and web traffic.

My Posts on Freelance Taxes:

• My Freelance Tax Writeoff Tips were included on a huge carnival of government and money under the tax situation alongside other tax topics such as tax software reviews, tax preparation, tax filing and tax refunds.
• My Freelancer’s Guide to Important Tax Deductions was in the Working at Home Blog Carnival. It was featured in the business section of the blog carnival along with some great posts on IT careers during the recession, budgeting software, passive income, marketing optimism and entrepreneurs. This carnival also had posts on many other topics including home organization, investment, filing taxes, choosing good opportunities, setting goals, business book writing and marketing, article writing, email interviews, health care, Roth IRAs, productivity , frontier living, making money online (and getting paid), computer inventions, teleseminars and even VoIP (a topic I used to write about).

Other Posts:

• My Ideas for Sticking to a Personal Budget were featured in the budgeting section of a personal finance carnival along with posts on the economy, scholarships and tracking living expenses. This money blog carnival also had posts on economics, financial planning, home financing, income, debt and spending.