Archive for December, 2011
Is Freelance Writing a Career?
I guess it kind of depends on your definition of “career” doesn’t it? For me, when I think of a career I envision something that one does as their primary means of supporting themselves. In my mind, a career is a long term proposition that doesn’t include using the current job as a stepping stone [...]
Ripp(off)ing Yarns
As a follow-up to my last blog and to an earlier one on e-books, I have another tale from The Wall Street Journal, which is throwing a rotten mince pie in the face of all those looking forward to their new Kindle this Christmas. In a recent article, E-Book Readers Face Sticker Shock, the Journal [...]
Freelance Writing Videos
Intuitively, it’s not something you would initially consider as a freelance writer. Why on earth would a person who writes for a living even consider producing videos? I can understand how folks would not consider this a priority or even a consideration for freelance writing but I think there is room for videos in our [...]
How Do You Connect With Other Freelance Writers?
This question developed today after a little FaceBook thingy happened. The incident got me thinking about us freelance writing types and how we connect with other writers. I imagine it’s a bit different for each of us and I’ll bet there are more similarities than meets the eye. In my previous article, I wrote about [...]
Apple Bites Amazon
I read with disappointment but no great surprise (nothing about big business surprises me any more) two stories in The Wall Street Journal last week. On the 7th we had EU Launches E-Book Pricing Probe, then the next day appeared Justice Department Confirms E-Book Pricing Probe. Of course, there may be nothing to this, but I’m [...]
To Connect Or Not To Connect With Other Freelancers?
I was thinking about the relationships I have with other freelance writers. In my next article I plan on writing about how to connect and then I started wondering if there are folks out there who don’t even try to connect with other freelance writers. I mean, writing is a solitary sport for most of [...]
