Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
I was looking through my giant RSS list of Craigslist writing jobs and found this little rant sandwiched in among the Toronto Writing Jobs. Whoever you are, my anonymous brother or sister, I salute you.
So sick of cheap writing rates! (anywhere)
from Toronto Writing Jobs
To all of the job posters looking for writers and offering “get your [...]
If my posts this week haven’t yet convinced you that you should attend writing conferences, check this out. During H. M. Cauley’s “Writing Naked” seminar, I nailed down an idea for a story to submit to – of all places – AARP Magazine, and since then I’ve been brainstorming ideas like crazy. In other [...]
…If you promote it right, that is.
But first, welcome to day two of “Why Should Freelance Writers Attend Writing Conferences?” Like I said yesterday, I’m a devoted advocate of industry related networking opportunities, and writing conferences offer not only networking opportunities, but learning opportunities, too. That’s a whole lot of opportunity right there.
When attending the [...]
Last Saturday I attended the Red Clay Writers Conference in Kennesaw, Georgia. For those of you who have never attended a writers conference, it’s generally a mixture of booths and seminars of some type. The Red Clay was a general writing conference, meaning that workshops ran the gamut from how to write poetry to how [...]
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 [...]
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: 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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