Archive for August, 2006
Negotiating Your Own Rate: Magazines
Even with your first magazine sale there is still some room for negotiation. There are basically three separate situations here.
Speculation: When you submit an article “on speculation,” this means the editor is willing to look but not necessarily buy. If he or she likes the article they offer you a standard fee. You can accept [...]
JOBS GALORE!
PART-TIME NEWSPAPER EDITOR SOUGHT Success monthly business publication seeks part-time editor to edit content, compile news and probably do some blogging. Please send resume or letter of interest and any writing samples or reference asap. Compensation: DOE - to be discussed. Reply to: job-200254789@craigslist.org
TELECOMMUTE WEDDING BLOGGER WANTED New wedding website is looking for someone in [...]
It’s raining, it’s pouring!
Yay! I’m sitting at my desk this morning drinking coffee and listening to the wonderful sound of rain, rain, rain! It’s been Soooo hot here in Texas, and so very dry, this is a wonderful gift.
I love the fall, and I am delighted that summer is just about over.
On the writing front, I am busy [...]
Average Advance for First Novels
Check out this very indepth survey done by Tobias Buckell
Summertime blues
Though I’m really enjoying my job writing for the soap site, that’s about the only thing I’ve done that’s the least bit writing involved lately. It’s so damned hot it Texas this time of year. And even though I’m not out working in it, a sort of lethargy has set in. Or heck, maybe I’m [...]
Monologue of a Dog
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Sun, Aug. 06, 2006
Nobel winner Wislawa Szymborska triumphs over contemporary standards, which are simply silly.
Monologue of a Dog
By Wislawa Szymborska
Harcourt. 96 pp. $22
Reviewed by John Timpane
I’ve been reading this book for months, deriving pleasure, instruction, expansion of spirit, and much else from Wislawa Szymborska’s poems.
What most struck me was this: [...]
Two great sites I found
Anatomy of a Book Deal blog
The Modern Word
This Life
First and finally we are loners
from that beginning breath
until the last dying ember
we are given the task of loving
yet on our own.
It’s through the grace of God
and the hand of family
the compassion of a friend
the devotion of a pet
it could be as simple
as the peaceful repetition
of supper on the stove
or the wild passion of romance
that [...]
Good writing advice
The Teacher’s Blackboard Ó2006
By
Karen Newcomb
A column for teachers with tools to help their students understand the writing process.
To round out the three-dimensional character they have to have an emotional side.
LESSON FIVE: PART THREE: Developing character traits
Does the character have a best friend?
What attracts them to that best friend?
Does the best friend have traits that [...]
What a Hoot!
JOHN MOE’S POP-SONG CORRESPONDENCES, VOLUME XIII. BY JOHN MOE - - - - Notes on “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor. - - - - Hi, Axl, Just got your manuscript and demo for the song “Sweet Child O’ (sic) Mine.” I think we need to talk. As your [...]