You are a writer or want to be a writer and you’re fresh out of ideas for your career. Lucky for you that you read this blog. Here are 10 cool ideas you can steal, although I guess it’s technically not stealing if I give them to you.
1. Get a blog. A blog is like [...]
Writers do not earn a lot of money.
Wait, let me rephrase that. Some writers don’t earn any money, a very rare few earn a lot of money, and most of us are somewhere on the low end of "in-between."
I recently met a lady who 20 years ago wrote features for some of the prestigious magazines [...]
This little Chinese girl reading a book may well soon be a big threat to American writers. Creative people in the United States have seen a precipitous erosion of their fees as more and more jobs go overseas. Want proof? Go to those Ebay-type creative sites (Elance.com, Guru.com, RentACoder.com) and you can see jobs for [...]
Writing, particularly online writing, is one of many enterprises not particularly troubled by etiquette. While I don’t wish to supplant Miss Manners here, I think that our global undervaluing of etiquette leads to a great deal of confusion.
The purpose of etiquette has been expressed as never insulting another individual accidentally. That’s terribly profound, in [...]
I don’t actually have anything against Bill Gates, but it seems to me that he and his company have done a lot to ruin writing, design, art work, illustration, photography, and public speaking. Mr. Gates did this by helping to put PCs in every household and then providing tools that he assured them would allow [...]
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