What I’m reading: The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson What’s on the iPod: Hell and Back by The Airborne Toxic Event There’s nothing like working outdoors to center you. We spent the weekend accomplishing various things, one being leveling the ground near the house. Six hours of digging and hauling sod and dirt made me…
Freelance writing advice
Writers Worth: My A-ha Moment
What’s on the iPod: Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan TGIF in a big way. I’ve spent a somewhat frustrating week trying to clear up a rather large outstanding invoice. The project is on hold, the money is nowhere to be seen, my emails haven’t been answered, and this writer is getting pissed. I get…
Learning from Freelance Writing Mistakes
What I’m reading: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison What’s on the iPod: Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough by Michael Jackson After a fantastic Writers Worth Month, I’m settling into a busy June. Typically, June is when things slow down. July and August are usually quiet as graveyards. This year, however, I’m working…
Doing Your Homework
“You have touched on some fastidious factors…” Don’t you just love spam comments? I was weeding through 1,900 or so of them the other day and I realized the correlation between spam comments and writers missing the mark with their queries — neither the spammer nor the writer did their homework. Sure, we don’t expect…


