Writing the good read
I belong to this amazing organization for freelance writers and editors called Freelance Success. It has been instrumental in all of the work I have done for national publications and websites, and at about a hundred bucks a year, my membership over the last decade or so has paid for itself many times over. Every…
I have a friend who, rather than watching television, spends evenings trawling through YouTube for fun videos. I have to admit, I never spent much time on the site. Sometimes my brother — who apparently doesn’t have a lot to do — will send me a link to something funny. Or that he thinks is…
I do my best writing when I should be sleeping. Usually, there is no computer or paper and pencil. As I drift off, I write — ledes to the stories I have due later in the week, very clever blog-posts, 140-character masterpieces of Twitter, and some of the most scathing (and of course effective) letters…
I’ve been thinking a lot about writing lately. I do it for a living — or should I say “living”, but more on that later — so it shouldn’t come as a shock. But it’s the eve of the Third annual Wordcount Blogathon which will require me to write every single day. Here’s where the…