Posts filed under 'Freelancing'
Christa Terry is the writer and editor of the bridal blog Manolo For The Brides. Her book iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net is coming out on June 10.
- Our first long-distance show using Skype!
- Do gender stereotypes hold true — are men afraid of wedding talk?
- What happens when a bridal blogger plans her own wedding.
- Eating mints before eight o’clock can doom a marriage.
- Don’t be too quick to flee that internship for a paying job.
- Auditioning for a job in the newspaper business, and the perils of getting the job you want.
- Journalist by day, New Age freelancer by night.
- Using Craigslist to find freelance work.
- Good or bad, put it all on your resume!
Christa’s book:
iDo: Planning Your Wedding with Nothing But ‘Net
Christa’s blogs:
http://www.manolobrides.com
http://www.manolohome.com
Christa recommends:
The Everything Guide To Writing A Book Proposal
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May 25th, 2008
Author John Scalzi offers some profoundly useful guidance to writers about money, correctly diagnosing most of us having as much financial sense “as chimps on crack.”
It’s a long essay, and I recommend you absorb every word of it. Here are his top points:
1. You’re a writer. Prepared to be broke.
2. Don’t quit your day job.
3. Marry (or otherwise shack up with) someone sensible with money, who has a real job.
4. Your income is half of what you think it is.
5. Pay off your credit cards NOW and then use them like cash later.
6. Don’t have the cash for it? You can’t have it.
7. When you do buy something, buy the best you can afford — and then run it into the ground.
8. Unless you have a truly compelling reason to be there, get the hell out of New York/LA/San Francisco.
9. Know the entire writing market and place value on your own work.
10. Writing is a business. Act like it.
Hilariously, in my marriage I’m the one with the real job. My wife is a full time self-employed artist. I’m a writer, but a salaried one.
February 13th, 2008
Wade continues his poolside conversation with freelance writer Joyce Gorsuch in Las Vegas. Joyce discusses returning to America, breaking into the local magazine market, how she finds work, and her advice to young writers. Also: Wade copies his wife’s Art History class notes from 1989 for a writing assignment. Don’t tell the professor or he’ll be totally busted!
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December 22nd, 2007
Wade goes on vacation in Las Vegas and find himself poolside with Joyce Gorsuch, a freelance writer with heavy NPR connections. In Part One, Joyce talks about the gala event she covered the night before and her work with various international clients. Then Wade’s flight gets delayed, so he records the show’s outro while sitting on the runway.
Show notes at http://writingforpay.org
November 17th, 2007
We chat with Seattle-based freelancer Zia Munshi (and at one point, her pug Harry.)
- 0:20 - Wade is working from a noisy, noisy Starbucks. The resulting sound quality is not awesome.
- :43 - That second piece? Insanely hard to write, as it turned out.
- 1:11 - That barista in the background was hilarious.
- 1:39 - Zia Munshi joins us.
- 2:29 - Zia’s career trajectory.
- 3:38 - Getting that first ad agency gig.
- 4:19 - Young Zia’s six months in India working on a magazine for Americans.
- 5:35 - Projects: Like/Do Not Like
- 8:13 - Continually improving as a writer.
- 9:13 - Anathema words.
- 11:36 - How Zia finds freelance work.
- 12:10 - Advice for aspiring writers: the power of blogging, and putting together a portfolio.
Zia’s blog: www.ziamunshi.com
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September 21st, 2007
Wade talks to freelance writer Zia Munshi about breaking into the advertising business, writing case studies, putting a portfolio together, and blogging to help your career. Also: using “impact” as a verb. (shudder)
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September 21st, 2007
Caught up in Pottermania, WFP geeks out with writer, editor, and game designer Wolfgang Baur.
- 0:25 - At Third Place Books, buying Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
- 2:07 - Wolfgang Baur takes a break from training his hordes of clockwork ghouls to have a word with us.
- 2:39 - From gamer to writer to editor at TSR.
- 5:50 - The subject of fiction comes up, and Wolfgang is apprised of the “not getting laid” rule.
- 6:26 - The day job: technical and benefits writing.
- 8:35 - Breaking into the tech writing field with relatively little tech experience.
- 12:20 - Nuts and bolts: juggling multiple internal clients and budgets.
- 16:08 - Freelancing in the games industry.
- 16:29 - Wolfgang plugs his new books Expedition to the Demonweb Pits and The Forge of War.
- 16:55 - Nuts and bolts: how a role-playing game book gets made.
- 19:24 - We discuss the difference between game design and game writing.
- 22:06 - The sad realities of work for hire.
- 22:42 - Finding freelance work.
- 24:54 - I can’t for the life of me pronounce “Wingardium Leviosa” correctly.
Wolfgang Baur’s Web site: www.wolfgangbaur.com
Publications by Wolfgang Baur:
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August 9th, 2007
WFP comes out of the gate strong with guest Jaq Greenspon, an old friend and a versatile freelance writer.
- 0:30 - Intro: An explanation and mission statement
- 4:00 - Jaq Greenspon graciously consents to an interview.
- 5:14 - Additional reporting by!
- 6:30 - Jaq almost breaks the “not getting laid” rule by talking about his red carpet interviewing gig.
- 7:22 - Not all magicians are men, but they’re pretty much all geeks.
- 8:00 - Adventures in writing for the tabloids. Wade recognizes none of these celebrities.
- 8:32 - OMG IMDB.
- 9:00 - How Jaq got started as a writer.
- 10:33 - How do you get work?
- 15:07 - Using your interests to break into particular industries.
- 17:13 -Asked which projects he likes best, Jaq almost breaks the “not getting laid” rule AGAIN. He saves himself with a Paddy Chayefsky reference.
- 18:09 - Projects Jaq likes least. It turns out that he does not enjoy being belittled by famous actresses.
- 20:27 - Advice to budding professional writers.
- 23:20 - Favorite and least favorite words and phrases. Yngwie Malmsteen’s dramatic return to the spotlight.
Jaq’s Web site: www.jaqgreenspon.com
Jaq’s published books:
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July 29th, 2007
