If you use rechargeable batteries you know they don’t last forever. They work, they run low and then you recharge them. Writers are like that too. We can’t work non-stop without the juices running low. But if you’re like me and you spend your work life tied to a computer, email and the Internet, it’s […]
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I'm in a New York state of mind
I’m in New York today meeting with editors. In honor of the trip, here’s five media-related things I like about New York: 1. The New Yorker – My favorite magazine. From week to week, you never know what stories you’ll find – wild boars, smallpox, Seymour Hirsch’s latest Iraq war expose, a George Clooney profile. […]
Freelance jobs site hosts "Idol" style audition for paid blogger gig
Freelance Writer Jobs is a popular Website for freelancers. Every day Deborah Ng and her staff cull information on new writing gigs from a variety of sources – Craig’s List, Mediabistro.com, other job boards – and post them online, along with a mix of comments and commentary on the freelance writing life. This week, FWJ […]
Go online to get business cards in a hurry
I haven’t carried business cards for years. I normally work from home and when I meet people I ask to exchange email addresses, or to add them to my LinkedIn connections. Business cards just didn’t seem important. But I realized I might need them when I went to a Mediabistro.com media networking party a couple […]
How to handle rewrites without wanting to kill yourself, or your editor
Rewrites aren’t high on my list of favorite work-related activities. The fact is, I hate them. Especially when an editor sits on something for a couple weeks then ships it back with questions. It makes me want to fire off an email saying “That was so five stories ago!” But rewrites are a fact of […]
If you like blogging every day, try NaBloPoMo
I wish I’d heard of Eden Marriott Kennedy a month ago. Kennedy is the creator of National Blog Post Month or NaBloPoMo for short, a Website for people who’ve taken up the challenge of blogging every day. That should sounds familiar to regular readers of this blog, which I took through my own blogathon during […]