Here’s a horror story for freelancers out there. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. I was at a media professionals mixer the other day, chatting with a number of TV journalists and writers. Then I saw a woman making her way through the crowd, staring at nametags. She grabbed this guy behind me … Continue Reading
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Reviewed: “Damp Squid”
A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield My review rating: 4 of 5 starsA fascinating study of words *as people actually use them.* Most books on language do not have the power of the Corpus behind them, which is what makes Damp Squid so special. This book is written for a … Continue Reading
Where I’ve been: 5 Tools To Boost Web 2.0 Productivity
Image via Wikipedia My Tuesday posts have been lacking, I know, but that’s because I’ve started blogging at mediabistro.com’s MediaJobsDaily. So instead of a list of markets and freelance opportunities this week, I’d like to highlight a few tech tools I’ve found indispensable for my new role as breaking-news-blogger and social media maven. Twitlet – … Continue Reading
I’m trying Zemanta!
Image via CrunchBase One of the things I’ve found time-consuming about blogging is finding appropriate images to go along with posts (which is why so many of these posts are image-less…which is faster, but boring!) I’ve just discovered a free Firefox plugin that claims to take the work out of this semi-arduous task. Zemanta does … Continue Reading
Adventures in #journchat…aka turning Twitter into a very loud chatroom
Well–last night I stumbled onto the last third of a chat taking place via Twitter. This is a relatively new phenomenon. Tweetgrid, a third-party service that makes Twitterchatting much easier, is only a couple months old. I must say I still don’t fully understand the advantage of chatting through Twitter using hashtags. I posted 8 … Continue Reading
Weekly update: 2 glossy markets ripe for the picking, and more
Well, last week I was too busy pitching to blog, so now I’m back…with a vengeance. Writer’s Guidelines: I search for them so you don’t have to I fired a pitch off to Endless Vacation magazine, which is a travel mag sent to RCI (timeshare) members. But you don’t have to be writing about timeshare … Continue Reading
Writer’s Guidelines for Washington City Paper, and why you really don’t want them
Remember last week when I said I’d fired off a pitch to Virginia Wine Lover? Well, I lied. I had every intention of firing off said pitch right after posting that entry, and then my idea fizzled. Desperate to get something out last week to meet my self-imposed goal of pitching once a week, I … Continue Reading
Journalism death-knell: Page 6, LA Times in trouble (and some places that aren’t)
Happy Tuesday, all. I’ve got leads for DC freelance writers, writers who telecommute, food writers, and more this week. The big news last week was that the LA Times killed its Metro section. I wish this was a joke. WTF, LA Times? This could theoretically cause a trickle-down effect of fewer gigs in the D.C. … Continue Reading
Money for your writing! Yes, really!
Hi all! It’s been a quiet week, hasn’t it? Here’s another selection of paying markets, leads, and more information for freelance writers. (Translation: these folks want to give you money!) Mediabistro pointed me to this LAT blog post about a new publishing division at Alloy. If you’ve always wanted to write for teen and tween … Continue Reading