Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
I don’t read a lot of business books. When someone asks me if I’ve read How to Win Friends & Influence People, my eyes glaze over. I’d much rather be reading the the new Isabel Allende (which is fabulous, by the way), a good history book about epidemic disease or man’s inhumanity to man, or [...]
I generally try to stay focused during working hours. Really, I do. But there are two email newsletters that stop me in my tracks and guarantee at least five minutes of my attention every time they arrive in my inbox. The first is Kayak’s travel deals newsletter. Subject lines like “$160+ Worldwide Flight Deals” always [...]
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3 May 2010Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas Edison
Somebody has been talking me up. Lately, I’ve had shiny-eyed prospective new freelance writers popping up out of the woodwork to ask me how to get started. So hi there, new writers! This post is for you.
What are my two top pieces of advice [...]
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 [...]
Your source for full-time and freelance writing, social media and community management jobs in the Atlanta area and beyond. Subscribe via email or RSS for unadvertised jobs as well as jobs from hidden (and not so hidden) places around the internet. Now with words of wisdom here and there from freelance writing and social media old salt Jennifer Escalona.