A writer friend and I were recently discussing writing for trades and doing the other-than-average gig, to which I pipe up “I don’t understand how a writer can look at a paying gig and not find a way to get interested in it. Can’t they just find something interesting in the subject matter?” His response:…
Fun While I’m Gone
Got this idea for a little group activity in my absence from Rebecca over at SmithWriting: Your favorite books. Here are some of mine: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (life changing, seriously)The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr (the ballsiest memoir ever – a knockout!)An American Childhood by Annie Dillard (this woman knows…
Friday Link Love
Having a day off work to actually read blogs in their entirety was a luxury! The result: I’ve found some really neat posts that resonated with me. Hope you enjoy them, too. (Don’t hate me too badly – gas prices in the UK are USD$9.20 a gallon, and that’s considered a bargain.) I don’t know…
Time Off? What’s That?
This time tomorrow I’ll have landed in London and hopefully, unlike last time, I’ll have slept on the plane. I’m taking my own pillow and earplugs – if you can’t get comfy with your own pillow, there’s something seriously wrong. It’s time off. Serious time off. A vacation even! I’m usually shaky for about a…
Typos, Grammar Screw-ups, and Other Things that Tick Me Off
I was shopping at the mall with my daughter the other day when we saw it – a t-shirt that had an illustration of a trash can on it and a stick figure tossing something in the general direction of the can. The shirt read: “Put it in it’s place.” There I stood in the…
Repetition is Good for You
Remember back in school when you were learning those spelling words or learning those math equations? If you went to a school like I did, you were expected to spell those words out five, ten times in order to remember. With math, you had to complete a bunch of similar equations in order to understand…
Too Many Twitters, Too Little Time
Thanks to all of you who joined in the first annual Writer’s Worth Day! It was a great start to what I hope is a group effort to raise awareness, offer more support, and bring more value to our industry. Onto other things… I read the Word Wrangler’s rant about the proliferation of social networks…
Raising Awareness One Writer at a Time
This is it – my self-proclaimed first annual day to celebrate what we writers are worth. If you have a blog, please join me in saying yes to competitive wages and no to accepting what isn’t worthy of our talents. Share your experiences, your advice, your support to all writers in hopes that we can…
I Have Titles!
Just a reminder – tomorrow is Writer’s Worth Day. It’s time for all of us to post on our blogs or leave comments around the blogosphere motivating our fellow writers in the beginning stages of their careers to value themselves enough to demand proper payment. Whatever you feel like sharing – education on what to…
Pledge with Me, People
I’ve read scores of blog postings this week both arguing against and defending low-paying, scummy wages (and please read this article to get yourself in the right mood). We’ve tried separately to shake others back into shape, but to no avail. We all know the problem exists. We also know that change comes from within….