Series: Freelance Rates Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Some freelancers prefer to charge by the hour; others offer flat rates for specific projects. There are advantages and disadvantages to both, and some jobs are better suited to one than the other—the scope of some projects can’t be easily defined, making a project fee difficult … Read more
Series: Freelance Rates Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 “Freelance editing rates” is consistently the most popular search term that leads people to my blog. Because of that interest, several months ago, I conducted and publised the results of a freelance rates survey. Freelance rates are the source of continuing debate, and the results of … Read more
A few days ago, I interviewed author Miriam Ruff about her book of short stories, The Shortest Distance. Someone asked in comments if there was an excerpt available of the book, as he would like to get a taste of her work before ordering the book. It pays to ask a question in comments. Miriam … Read more
A beautiful, intriguing picture can be a wonderful writing prompt to get your creative juices flowing. Aggie Villanueva at Visual Arts Junction has announced a new writing contest that invites you to look at Hushed Recall, the photo art above, and write a 500 word story or essay inspired by it. Aggie describes the contest this way: … Read more
Welcome to Miriam Ruff, my guest today. I’ve known Miriam for several years. She was a member of the Editorial Board of Your Information Center when I was Editor-in-Chief. I was familiar with her excellent skills at editing nonfiction, but I hadn’t read any of her creative writing until I read The Shortest Distance, her … Read more
Thank you to the 111 commenters who left 177 comments in March. Your comments extended the conversation and added value and interest, and I enjoyed replying to every one of them. Note: as indicated in the previous post, I had some hecklers leaving comments this month—comments from those individuals are not included in the count … Read more
I have been blessed with many wonderful readers and commenters. I appreciate comments and routinely thank commenters for the great conversations. In fact, this month’s thanks to commenters post was scheduled for today, but I postponed it so I could discuss something that happened this week. You wonderful readers and commenters have spoiled me so much that I … Read more
Thanks to Morgan Mandel for awarding me the Happy 101 Award. To accept the award, I am to list ten things that make me happy, then pass the award to five other bloggers. Our society so often focuses on the negative rather than positive, on what’s wrong rather than what’s right, on unhappiness rather than happiness. … Read more
Not long ago, I mentioned that I would be a judge for the Visual Arts Junction Writing Contest. The results of the contest have been released, and you can visit the contest page to read the winning entries in the Professional and Amateur categories.