Like the Rabbit in Alice’s Tale Yes, I’m late to the dance here today. Sorry. Too much going on this past week, including helping my oldest move to another state. You with small children cannot understand now (nor did I a few months ago) what it feels like when you see your kids leave. Yes,…
Author: lwidmer
Friday!!
Happy Friday, everyone. 🙂
I’ll Do it Myself
Cool Writers, Cool Ideas Series It pays to follow links in other blogs. Once in a while you come upon a truly exceptional read and you want to share it. I happened upon the blog of Glenda Watson Hyatt, a writer who has published a book and has written numerous articles – all with the…
Back from Hiatus
We just dragged our road-weary carcasses back to reality late yesterday, so forgive the lack of any real “useful” post today. It was a great trip. I can say that the time traveling goes by so much easier with an audiobook. We listened to Garrison Keillor’s latest – Pontoon. Hysterical and heartwarming – I highly…
Blip in the Radar
Sorry for my absence of late – we took a vacation and I’ve been gloriously out of both cell phone range and Internet access. While touring the east coast of North Carolina, I’ve found that there are still places on earth that don’t necessarily need cell towers, nor do the inhabitants care if they have…
Vision Your Book
Cool Writers, Cool Ideas Series Raise of hands – how many of you have a book idea or even a rough manuscript that you’re just not finishing? Yea, I figured as much. You’re in luck. Anne Wayman has been offering Visioning teleclasses for a number of months now. Her method of tapping into spiritual side…
Job Listings – October 9, 2007
The Jobs You Wish You Could Take, But Not Really As I cruise the job boards each week to bring you a smattering of listings, I often come across those that are insulting, weird, or just completely bizarre. This one transcends all categories and lands somewhere near Saturn or Jupiter: “I’ve smoked enough peyote to…
Clients: What to Expect from Your Writer/Editor
Sometimes the problems we have with clients comes from the expectations – what we deilver versus what they think we’ll deliver. Nowhere is this more true than in the actual scope of work we deliver. Recently I had a conversation with a client in which he thought I was performing A function when it was…
Writer’s Rates
Thanks again to Anne Wayman’s forum for another lively discussion about pay. This time, the discussion centers around how much you should expect to earn as a freelancer. Interesting topic, for there are as many right answers as there are writers, I suspect. The original poster, Yuwanda Black of Inkwell Editorial, was offering her e-book…
Testy
Over on Anne Wayman’s forum, the discussion of whether a writer should take a writing test is making the rounds. Are we really expected to prove beyond our published work that we can write? The answer – sometimes. While I don’t believe a test will tell you any more about the work ethic of the…