Just Do Your Job
People often ask me how to get a freelancer writing career (any writing career for that matter) off the ground. And one of the simplest yet most effective strategies is to simply do your job. I’m editing a project and one writer is habitually late and always at least doubles the word count he is assigned.…
continue readingHappy St. Patrick’s Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone. Be sure to read some of your favorite Irish literature prior before heading into the night to swill green beer. I’ll propbably curl up with some Patrick McCabe and James Joyce. What are your St. Paddie’s day reading choices?
continue readingCrazy Week
Sorry for the lack of posting this week. It’s been incredibly hectic. Hopefully I’ll be back on a normal posting schedule tomorrow. But in the meantime, does anyone want to take bets on how long before a book deal with Eliot Spitzer is announced? I’m guessing it might take a few months because he needs…
continue readingFrazier on Hannah
Charles Frazier examines Barry Hannah’s Airships for Paste. “Hannah’s language is audacious, bracing and insistent, often at the ragged brink of control,” Frazier writes. “Words flash in ways no one had thought of before. Not ever.”
continue readingDon’t Be Too Proud, Bob
Meanwhile, Bob Thompson of The Washington Post pounds his chest and brags about the heroic virtues of newspaper fact-checking in “True or False: Book Publishers Can Avoid the Agony of Deceit”. “We can, however, offer up a hoary newsroom phrase the publishing industry might find useful,” Thompson writes. “‘Too good to check!’ we say gleefully…
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