If you have trouble getting started on important projects because you have so many other things to do, follow the advice of a brilliant writer I know and abide by the “Rule of Four”: At the beginning of the day or in the evening before you go to bed, make a list of the …
Aug 27, 2007 Advice, Organization
Kristen writes: I have 23 articles due between now (August 21) and August 31. My total pay for those articles will be around $2,300. I quit my staff writing job after 10 years in January and, out of fear of never eating again, lined up many local paper and magazine assignments. They’re fun and easy …
Aug 23, 2007 Advice, Ass, You Ask, We Answer
Trisha Grissom at the Coffee and Critique Writers Group blog linked to my post 8 Tips to Generating Salable Article Ideas and added a great tip of her own: Use smells to generate memories and associations. To get more details on how to sniff your way to salable ideas, read her blog post. [lf]
Aug 23, 2007 Advice
Just wanted to pop my head out of the water and say sorry for not posting as much. Life has been kind of crazy these past few weeks, starting with a major screwup while we were updating this blog that left my own writing site homeless and crippled. (I’m still trying to figure out how …
Aug 21, 2007 Personal yammerings
If you’ve been getting published, you probably have a stack of magazines with your articles in them. My husband Eric and I learned the hard way, when we moved, that boxes of magazines are extremely heavy. So we set aside a couple of days to go through the mags and, using an Xacto knife and …
Aug 21, 2007 Advice, Organization
