Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
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 [...]
I have some exciting news. I was invited to speak at the University of Georgia’s Magazine Club next month! I’m going to talk about the ins and outs of freelance writing, getting started in a freelance writing career, and my own favorite way to earn scratch – corporate blogging for pay.
Now, I covered [...]
As soon as I type the period at the end of this sentence, my vacation will be officially over.
Crap.
You see, I was one of those workhorses who didn’t think vacations were important. And besides, even if they were important, who had time to take one? I kept up that attitude for six long, fruitful, stressful, [...]
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 [...]
I’m welcoming a new addition into my office today. It’s about 4×4, white, and I’m planning to use it mercilessly. It only set me back about $12.00 and I highly recommended that every freelance writer purchase one. It’s my new whiteboard!
Some ideas are just too big for a yellow pad or Microsoft OneNote, so I’m [...]
I’m a subscriber to the Women Day by Day blog authored by our very own SpecialtyBuzz guest, Maryan Pelland, and this week she posted an interesting interview with a woman who has started a criminal background check service for online daters called Sweetheart Checks. Being a one-track-minded workaholic, I immediately applied such a service to [...]
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 [...]
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