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
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 up (it’s …
Jan 30, 2008 Cool tools
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 recorder and …
Jan 28, 2008 Advice, Cool tools, You Ask, We Answer
Are you the type of person who always has a long list of to-dos? Do you manage to check off items fairly easily, but never feel like you accomplish much despite being “busy”? Or maybe you’re a writer who has a lot of projects on the burners, but you rarely complete them to your satisfaction?
If …
Oct 30, 2007 Cool tools, News you can use, Self improvement
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that works on the “six degrees of separation” principle: Find someone you want to meet, and chances are you know someone who knows that person. You invite friends and colleagues to “link” to you, and then all their contacts are your contacts, too. LinkedIn is free unless you want …
Oct 21, 2007 Cool tools, Networking
