I’m in the process of moving from New Hampshire to North Carolina, and things will be crazy around here until we get settled in. I’ll be running some oldie-but-goodie posts on the blog until I’m back to work. Enjoy!
1. You have the right to say no.
An editor asks you to write for exposure? “No.” A …… Click here to keep reading…
Jun 16, 2011 Observations, Rants, Rules
Since I blog, I read a lot of blogs about…well, blogging. And coming at it from a magazine writer and journalist perspective, I can see that much of the advice offered is BS. Blogging “experts” are spewing pronouncements, but (1) they don’t understand that different tactics work for different bloggers, and (2) most of them …… Click here to keep reading…
It’s your attitude.
At the risk of sounding like a Norman Vincent Peale wannabe: If you have a negative attitude towards your job, you probably won’t do very well at it.
I know the writing business is hard, and it’s getting harder all the time. But you can’t discount the fact that there are thousands of …… Click here to keep reading…
May 12, 2011 Advice, Motivation, Rants, Self improvement
This is a reprint of a post from 2009.
I was recently on a writer’s forum where a writer posted that he was writing articles for a penny a word and wondering if that was wise. The other posters shared that they also write for a penny a word, and boast that they can bang out …… Click here to keep reading…
May 5, 2011 Advice, Money, Motivation, Rants
photo credit: mollypop
A couple weeks ago, one of my students — a talented writer with a couple national clips to her name — told me she’d taken a class where the writing instructor said beginning freelancers should write 15 articles for regional parenting magazines before pitching national parenting magazines.
I was flabbergasted when this dog …… Click here to keep reading…
Apr 18, 2011 Advice, Editors, Ideas, Magazines, Query letters, Rants, Rules, Writing
