For the second year in a row, Dec. 1 rolled around and I’m slammed with work. I’m not complaining. With the economy and the publishing business in a shambles, it’s a nice problem to have. And it’ll help me pay for Christmas. But still, as a working parent, it’s a challenge to juggle the work […]
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Why you procrastinate at work, and how to get over it
Confession: I put off writing this blog post for the better part of today. I had good reasons. After being on the road over the Thanksgiving holiday, I have work to catch up on. I have six, possibly seven, stories due before Christmas and interviews to schedule for all of them. The laundry’s piled up. […]
Celebrate Cyber Monday and pep up your writing business with some electronic gadgets for Christmas
It’s Cyber Monday, time to start thinking about holiday spending (or maybe not). When you’re getting presents for everyone else on your shopping list this holiday, don’t forget to get yourself something too. Preferably it’ll be something to help you be smarter and more productive in your writing business but that is also cute and […]
WordCount recap – weekly news from the digital media biz
News you can use from the online news business: Seal Beach Daily – Take two former reporters, add Web design and blogging skills and you’ve got the Seal Beach Daily, a virtual daily newspapers covering the neighborhoods in and around Seal Beach, a beach town that straddles the border of Orange and Los Angeles counties. […]
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving. If you’re reading this on Thanksgiving, you’re spending too much time online. Walk through the leaves. Watch a football game. Eat a drumstick. Enjoy the day.
The WordCount guide to queries
Long weekends like the four-day Thanksgiving holiday that starts tomorrow when nobody’s in the office are great times to work on projects you can’t get around to when you have story deadlines and editors breathing down your neck, projects like crafting queries to new or not so new-to-you publications. To help get the query juices […]