If you’ve been writing professionally for a while, you’ve probably noticed that pay rates at most magazines have remained the same. A dollar a word is still the magic number — as it was in the eighties and even earlier. Add in inflation and the fact that assignments are getting shorter but still requiring the …
Sep 30, 2006 Advice, Ass, Observations, productivity, Self improvement, Writing
I’ve added a subscription page where you can get The Renegade Writer Blog as an RSS feed or subscribe via e-mail. I’m still figuring out the finer points of WordPress. My goal is to get a subscription icon on every page. Till then, you can find this page and more about us under the “Pages …
Sep 29, 2006 Cool tools, News you can use
Tomorrow’s the last day to get yourself in the running for one of three fabulous Renegade Writer Makeovers. If you’ve been putting it off, put it off no longer because once 11:59 p.m. strikes on Saturday, the mailbox at makeover [at] therenegadewriter [dot] com closes for good.
We have some exciting makeover experts lined up. I’d …
Sep 29, 2006 Opportunities, Self improvement
As I was wandering the aisles of Staples early Thursday a.m., I started thinking about how many office tools I own (a lot) and how many of them have revolutionized my work (very few). In no particular order, the essential writing tools I can’t do without:
The hands-free headset. If I could only keep one tool …
Sep 29, 2006 Cool tools
Karen Lynch freelanced for newspapers in the 1990s, and she recently landed her first magazine assignment using a letter of intro instead of a query. (She also learned the importance of asking for the assignment.)
Why did you decide to send an introductory letter to this particular magazine instead of a formal query?
I was tired of …
Sep 28, 2006 Writer Q&A, Writing
