Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
In: Morbid Monday
31 Aug 2009If I died, nobody would know what to do about my clients. I keep my records locked on my laptop, I wipe my daily schedule away every day on an erasable white board, and I’ve never maintained one master list of all the clients I work with or the projects I work on. I’m like [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
27 Aug 2009It’s Thursday and that means that its SpeciatyBuzz day. If you haven’t wandered over to these parts before, that means that I will be posting an interview with a freelance writer who considers him or herself a specialist on a particular topic or style of writing within the broader field of freelance writer. Today’s SpecialtyBuzz [...]
In: Writing Craft
24 Aug 2009Freelance writers, what have you done today that you will still remember five years down the road?
In: Miscellaneous
17 Aug 2009For the past year and a half I’ve been in graduate school. Not coincidentally, I have also been a freelance writer for the past year and a half. And – follow my SAT analogy here – that means that this past summer was the only time I have been a freelance writer without simultaneously being [...]
I was all set to write an “International ‘It’s Hard Out Here for a Writer’ Week” post yesterday. The post was going to be all about slow payment and how we constantly have to fight just to see our paychecks and blah blah. But then I received some bad news that someone I know who [...]
Thursday is SpecialtyBuzz day here at the Life and Times of a Freelance Writer, and that means I will be interviewing a specialist freelance writer in hopes of educating new freelance writers about a possibly unknown niche. And this week’s niche is probably one that many people haven’t even considered – paintball writing. I’ll let [...]
This week I’m taking a break from my usual sunshine and encouragement to recount some writer woes and horror stories. Since today is Worthy Wednesday, the day I usually share the highlights of a blog that I feel should be in your RSS feed reader, I had to think of a way to combine the [...]
The second installment of “International ‘It’s Hard Out Here for a Writer Week’” comes to us from the magazine world.
Another of our freelance writing colleagues accepted a position on staff with a brand new magazine. The pay was excellent, the publisher was established, and everything seemed to be going well. Her only complaint [...]
We writers don’t have time for a lot of self pity because we’re too busy writing. (Well, except for maybe Percy Blysse Shelley. Doesn’t that guy look like “Woe is me” popped out of his mouth after every other sentence?) But recently several of my colleagues have run aground on writing hard times [...]
Recently I have been spotlighting new freelance writers with guest posts in this very spot. Today say hello to Molly G., a freelance writer who stumbled into the freelance writing business very much like I did and is now searching for a little direction. Read on for freelance writing speculation with a Boston accent:
How I [...]
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