By Michelle V. Rafter on May 13, 2009
A friend who sells medical supplies takes a pragmatic approach to rejection. When a company says no to what she’s selling, she brushes it off and moves onto the next prospect. “In my personal life I can’t handle that kind of rejection, but at work it doesn’t bother me,” she says. “It’s just business.” Writers [...]
Posted in Careers, Editors, Freelancing, Magazines, Workplace Issues, Writing | Tagged Dan Baum, freelance writing, how to handle rejection, Motley Fool, rejection, Susan Johnston, The New Yorker, TheUrbanMuse, Tim Beyers, Twitter, working at The New Yorker, working with editors, writing and rejection |
By Michelle V. Rafter on February 13, 2008
When writers aren’t writing, they’re reading about how to be a better writer, or be a better marketer of their writing, or about who else they could be writing for. That’s what I found when I asked freelance, newspaper and magazine writers and editors to name some of their favorite blogs for writers. It’s an [...]
Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Writing | Tagged AboutFreelanceWriting, Anne Wayan, Blogs, Bob Bly's Blog, Copyblogger, Copyediting, Copywriter Underground, Copywriting, Dan Santow, Deborah Ng, Dianna Huff's B2B MarCom Writer Blog, Erik Sherman's WriterBiz, Freelance Switch, FreelanceWritingGigs.com, Freelancing, InkThinker, Irreverent Freelancer, John McIntyre, Jugglezine, Kathy Kehrli, Kristen King, Linda Formichelli, Magazines, Michael Stelzner's Writing White Papers, Newspapers, Publicity Hound, Publishing, Publishing 2.0, Romenesko, Susan Johnston Home, The Bad Pitch Blog, The Golden Pen, The Renegade Writer, TheUrbanMuse, Toddie Downs, Web Content Writer Tips, WordHappy, WordWise, Writing, You Don't Say |
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