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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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