Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
In: Links
30 Oct 2009While I’ve had my head buried in a 20 page paper trying to prove that flash fiction is short story at its most distilled, many of my friends and colleagues have been up to much more interesting things. (More interesting than literary criticism?! I know, I couldn’t I believe it either.)
NaNoWriMo Word Counters
First, a little [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
29 Oct 2009Thursday is SpecialtyBuzz day on The Life and Times of a Freelance Writer, and that means that I’m once again posting an interview with a freelance writing specialist. Whether you are a new freelance writer who hasn’t yet decided on a specialty or an old timer looking for a new niche, the weekly SpecialtyBuzz segment [...]
When Mr. Escalona and I were relative newlyweds, we embarked on a road trip. At a rest stop one afternoon, I emerged from the bathroom to find the gregarious, friendly and helpful Mr. Escalona engaged in conversation with a middle-aged female stranger.
“I need a ride a couple miles down the road, but your husband [...]
In: Writing Craft
26 Oct 2009…Then maybe you’re just a snob.
Check out this article on Salon.com about class warfare in language and think about your intentions next time you slap someone upside the head for a dangling participle.
As my favorite freelance writer Yolander Prinzel says, if you are a full-time freelance writer, then you are a business owner first, writer second. It’s very important to stay in that business owner mindset when doing everything from marketing your business to collecting the fees you are owed, but it is especially important to keep [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
22 Oct 2009It’s Thursday again, and that means that its SpecialtyBuzz time. If you’re new to this blog, every Thursday I interview a freelance writer who specializes in a certain subject matter (i.e. health, sports) or a certain style of writing (i.e. copywriting, press release writing). If you are a new freelance writer seeking a specialty, or [...]
In: Freelance Writing| Freelance Writing Questions| Writing Life
21 Oct 2009I have a question for all of you freelance writers/fiction writers out there. Do you use your published fiction as a sample in your writer’s portfolio or not? I’m especially interested in responses from freelance writers who mainly deal with business clients but write fiction on the side.
You see, I’m asking this question for a [...]
I am currently plowing my way through Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 report and thought that many of you fellow bloggers might find this information helpful.
Technorati has been publishing this report since 2004, and this year’s report focuses on a subject that is near and dear to many of our hearts – professional blogging. For [...]
Today is Monday, meaning that I get to take a break from freelance writing, hop in my car, and meet with a group of likeminded creative writers and talk about esoteric topics in a little place known as grad school.
Okay, so sometimes that experience is more like this: I have tear myself away from my [...]
…Did you? Excellent. Because now it’s time for you to start getting actual work done. If you are one of those people who keeps their email open all day, I guarantee that, if a mad scientist hooked little clocks up to your brain, he or she would find that you are wasting literally hours per [...]
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