I’ve been teaching Magazine Writing Basics for a while now, and when I taught my last session, I added two phone consultations to the e-course – one during the first week, and one at the end of the 8-week class. I wanted to speak with my students because I really feel that teaching magazine writing …
Jan 21, 2009 Advice, Classes, Observations, Self improvement, Writing
I’ve taken up twittering. A few days ago, one of the writers I follow tweeted, “Well, it’s done and sent.” I could practically hear her sigh of relief. It resonated with me. When I’m juggling multiple assignments, my only goal is often just to finish – to cross another article off of my to-do list.
While …
I just started teaching the spring session of my class yesterday, and I decided I wanted students to be able to communicate with each other and also to share their work, if they choose to. I thought I’d try out Ning, a service that I’d been hearing about. It lets you create social networks (sort …
Apr 29, 2008 Query letters, Writing
You could say I’m a slow learner. I’ve been writing and editing professionally for more than 20 years, and only this year did I realize that I’ve been approaching my freelance career backwards. The conventional wisdom suggests that success comes to the freelancer who studies the markets and pitches stories that she thinks editors are …
Apr 25, 2008 Advice, Classes, Magazines, Self improvement, Writing
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 goals …
Jan 5, 2008 Classes, Networking, News you can use, Opportunities, Self improvement
