Elaine Grant, who teaches the Magazine Writing Basics class through the Renegade Writer, just sent me this testimonial for her class:
Elaine’s class helped me focus my ideas and target my writing to get it ready for publication. Her online “lectures” are full of information and fun to read. I still find myself referring back to …
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Jan 27, 2009
Classes

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 …
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Jan 21, 2009
Advice, Classes, Observations, Self improvement, Writing
Jenny Cromie over at the Golden Pencil featured our own RW travel writing instructor Alison Stein Wellner last week in her Successful Freelancer Spotlight. Yay Alison!
I’ve pasted this quote from Alison in my motivation file: “My advice is, as much as possible, to forget all about this economic environment. I agree that it is scary …
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Jan 10, 2009
Advice, Classes, Writer Q&A

I was enjoying my morning cup of java when my eye caught a headline on CNN.com: “Adult films doing well in bad economy.” It was funny because a few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a fellow writer about subject areas where a freelancer could do well in a flaccid economy, and sex …
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Jan 9, 2009
Blogging, Classes, Opportunities, Writers, Writing
The second session of my story idea workshop begins this Monday, November 3, so if you need a kick in the pants to generate some good story ideas, you might want to consider signing up. If you can’t do the November session, then I’ve scheduled two more, one starting December 1 and the other on …
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Oct 30, 2008
Classes, Writing