Jaq Greenspon, whom I interviewed for the first episode of Writing For Pay, is using this podcast as part of his learning materials in the Advanced Composition class he’s teaching at UNLV.
Hello, Jaq’s students! I invite your comments, questions, and suggestions at this blog, or e-mail me at wade@writingforpay.org. Go Rebels!
(That invitation appplies to the rest of you readers and listeners too, by the way.)
Add comment September 22nd, 2007
I’ll be attending the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend in downtown Seattle. (In fact, it starts in just a few hours!)
If you’re there and you catch sight of me, please say hello. I’d love to meet you.
It would be awesome if you could do it while my co-workers are nearby, because I want them to think I’m totally famous.
Add comment August 24th, 2007
Loyal WFP listener Jes asked if I could provide links to publications that come up in conversation when I’m interviewing writers. I think this is a brilliant idea, and I’ve updated the first episode’s show notes with links to my guest Jaq Greenspon’s books:
These are Amazon Affiliate links; so if you use them to buy the books, I receive several pennies’ worth of store credit. Everybody wins! Especially Amazon!
Fig. 1 - More book sales = more sandwiches.
Add comment August 2nd, 2007
Now that there’s a show up, I’ve submitted the feed to iTunes, Yahoo! Podcasts, and Podcast Alley.
iTunes and Yahoo! Are still chewing on my submission, but WFP is up on Podcast Alley:
My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-8f68a3d11b9ee2925ea0f12da442b63d}
As various directories list the podcast, you’ll start to see the sidebar fill up with buttons. So many buttons will we have!
Add comment July 29th, 2007
I wonder how many times the issuance of a tersely-worded correction about a statement related to UNIX has gotten someone laid.
Given the ubiquity, it must be a total chick magnet for someone.
Add comment July 27th, 2007
You’ve happened upon the official blog for the Writing For Pay podcast, you lucky so-and-so!
Right now I’m recording and editing the first three episodes of the podcast. I’m also setting up various behind the scenes mechanisms and making important decisions. The main one that I face is, how often will new shows come out? This series is going to be driven by interviews, and it’s hard to imagine that I’ll be doing an interview a week at this point. So, maybe every couple of weeks.
But having set up this site after much labor, I can’t just let it sit here doing nothing while I work on the podcast. When the opportunity presents itself I’ll post a little something about the world of writing for pay. Something that doesn’t require me to think much. Ideally, someone else will say something insightful and then I’ll wave and point at it. Yeah.
Add comment July 18th, 2007
“The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning–at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity.”
- G.K. Chesterton
Add comment July 17th, 2007
