Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
In: Editing| Freelance Writing
31 Jul 2009As an editor, do you ever think of yourself as a tiny soldier, thrust down amid a battlefield of words, charged with taming typos and curing comma splices? Or perhaps you imagine yourself an antibiotic, swimming around a body of work, searching for the diseased bits to engage in glorious medicinal battle?
Really, you don’t? Don’t [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
30 Jul 2009Today is SpecialtyBuzz day, and our specialty freelance writer guest this week is grant writer Zipporah Daniels-Browne. As you will see below, Zipporah has been writing grants for a number of years, and has a few tips for you potential freelance grant writers out there.
What is your specialty and how did you get started in [...]
This week I’m ever so productively working from home without distractions. So how fortuitous it was that a tip I submitted was featured as part of the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’s “155 Ways to Work at Home Without Distraction.” (Check out #116.) Many of our freelance writing colleagues, such as Natalia Maldonado and Meryl K. Evans, [...]
Today is Thursday and that can only mean one thing – SpecialtyBuzz! SpecialtyBuzz is a weekly segment where I ask specialist freelance writers to reveal all the juicy details about their particular specialties. Today’s featured guest is Maryan Pelland, a a multitalented writer who focuses on technology topics for baby boomers and women’s issues. (How [...]
In: Worthy Wednesday
22 Jul 2009The premise of Worthy Wednesday is simple: I’ll explain why I find a site Google Reader-Worthy, and hopefully introduce readers to a useful resource in the process.*
In keeping with this week’s “Writing Quirks” theme, this week’s Worthy Wednesday pick is: Query Shark.
Don’t be fooled by the Query Shark blog’s stark exterior. This is the place [...]
I have decided that it’s going to be weird quirk week here at The Life and Times of a Freelance Writer. Why? Why not?
Today I’m going to talk about love words. Not as in “Baby, you so fine,” but as the words that we fall in love with and suddenly find ourselves using over and over [...]
In: Freelance Writing| Freelance Writing Questions| Writing Craft
20 Jul 2009Do you have any weird writing process quirks of foibles? I recently identified one of mine. It’s something I’ve been doing since high school, but hadn’t actually given much thought until recently. I generally write a whole article, brochure, paper, or whatnot but then need some time and distance before bringing myself to write the [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
16 Jul 2009It’s time for SpecialtyBuzz again. If you are new to SpecialtyBuzz, every Thursday here at Life and Times I post an interview with a specialist freelance writer. This series is intended for new freelancers who may be searching for a specialty or even for old hands who are merely curious about how the other half [...]
In: Miscellaneous
14 Jul 2009Paul Hemphill is dead. Whether he was writing newspaper features or later, novels and nonfiction books, he showed us that a minor leaguer aiming for the Bigs is more than a small town boy making good, and that the soul of country music – real country music, not this pseudo-pop crap they pass off [...]
In: Guest Bloggers
10 Jul 2009I’ve recently had a couple of queries regarding guest blogging at The Life and Times of a Freelance Writer, so I thought I would take the time to share my guest post policy.
Yes, I accept guest posts.
But there’s a catch. (Isn’t there always a catch?) The post needs to be at least remotely related to [...]
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