My husband and I recently co-wrote an article for a trade magazine. When I happened to look at the text weeks after we turned in the article, I noticed that one of the subheds read, “Insert snappy subhed here.” And we had turned it in that way! When the article came out, however, the editor …
Feb 28, 2008 Personal yammerings
I started taking a meditation class at the local yoga studio, and my teacher said it’s her job in life to “fail well.” That really resonated with me, and I think it pertains to writing as well as to the rest of life. As writers, we need to really put ourselves out there and do …
Feb 25, 2008 Advice, Ass, Observations
I am honored to have been interviewed for the fab FreelanceSwitch blog! I talk about how I got started, my advice for beginning writers, and my new organization Creative Professionals for Animal Welfare (creativePAW). [lf]
Feb 23, 2008 News you can use
Renegade reader Alicia Cosgrove (Wordwych on The RW blog) has a great tip for transcribing interviews. I’ll let her tell you herself:
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I write for a small local newspaper, doing human interest stories and local news. This, of course, requires me to interview many people, both by phone and in person with laptop balanced on anything …
Feb 20, 2008 Advice, Cool tools
(Reprinted from Writer’s Digest)
by Linda Formichelli
My article, for a trade magazine, was called “Sucking Up to Housecleaning Managers: Trends in Vacuums.” Twelve hundred words. On vacuums. With such riveting statements as, “The housekeeper uses an upright with a beater brush and edging tools to vacuum narrower corridors and to do edging. In office areas with …
Feb 17, 2008 Advice, Observations, Writing
