One thing I like to do when I have a long drive is make up trivia games for myself. I’m not a big radio fan, and as much as I like my iPod, it’s too distracting when I’m behind the wheel. Today I had to drive 1 1/2 hours each way for an interview,...
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It’s 2:30 pm…do you know where your wiki is? This is a public service announcement by the Renegade Writers, creators of the Renegade Writer Markets Wiki. This feature of the RW site includes pitching info on magazines such as Health, BabyZone.com, The Engravers Journal, Swimming Times, and Road King. Please check it out, sign...
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Rachel asks: I’m moving up in the freelance world, and need to improve my interviewing equipment. I’d like something that will record my phone interviews so I can concentrate on the questions I’m asking and not note-taking. What do you recommend for phone interviews? When I was starting out, I used a regular tape...
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Michelle asks: A friend and I were debating how many articles a writer could write in a month. obviously, this will vary from person to person and depend on type of assignment, but I’m curious to hear from you two — and hopefully readers who comment — how many articles they usually do a...
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HCI, the publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, is looking for contributions for the following new books: The Ultimate Dog Lover The Ultimate Cat Lover The Ultimate Horse Lover Democrat’s Soul Republican’s Soul Check out the websites for info on deadlines, compensation, etc.
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I’m blogging at eGullet this week about my other passion besides writing: cooking! If you have any interest in food (or snow) come check it out!
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I found on my hard drive a folder called “Queries in Progress.” Thinking there might be a few salvageable ideas in there, I read through all the forgotten queries. At the end of one from 2002, lacking a real conclusion, I had written: I have near-godlike powers, and should be given this assignment without...
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Sarah asks: I’m wondering how reprints are viewed by editors today. For example, I had something published on a storyblog (not my own). I would now like to submit the same essay to hard copy magazines. I can’t find anything mentioned about reprints in the writers’ guidelines for these publications. Should I mention that...
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For my e-book Editors Unleashed: Magazine Editors Growl About Their Writer Peeves, one of my editors told me about a pet peeve that many of us commit every few seconds: She hates it when writers insert two spaces after periods. The “two spaces” rule is a holdover from the days before proportionally-spaced fonts, but...
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A day or so ago, Linda posted a notice about our second meeting of Way North Writers, a group for New England writers to network and share leads, inspiration and advice. I’m happy to say that we have a wonderful coach coming to lead us through a workshop on clarifying our dreams and achieving...
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