For years, I have been preaching to writers about spinning off material. My mantra: go to your research material for additional articles with new slants – and earn more per hour invested … [Read more...]
Convert Your Fading Specialty Into Opportunity
July 3, 2014 By 6 Comments
You’re tooling along quite nicely, thank you, writing about CB radios for a number of magazines when BOOM! – along comes the mobile phone. Bye-bye CB radio specialty. OK, that’s a hoary … [Read more...]
Interviewing by Telephone
April 23, 2014 By 7 Comments
While interviewing experts and sources via email has become more acceptable and commonplace, it lacks in two important areas: It lacks spontaneity, as the person being interviewed can … [Read more...]
Checklists for Nonfiction
March 3, 2014 By 2 Comments
After you've written your article – after you've edited and revised it – before sending it along to an editor – or posting it on the Web – run it through these … [Read more...]
How can you respond to anonymous job postings?
January 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Experts warn us to be cautious about replying to online job ads that do not include identifying information – especially when they do not include a website URL you can check out. … [Read more...]
Stand out from the other freelancers – Specialize
June 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
It’s an age-old question: Should a freelance writer be a generalist – writing about anything and everything? Or is it better to concentrate in one or two subject areas? Back in the day, it was … [Read more...]
How to survive and prosper as a freelancer
January 22, 2013 By 12 Comments
Freelancing is not for sissies. It never has been. Challenges have long risen up to confront independent writers and editors. Only their names have changed to identify the … [Read more...]
