Stuff on freelance writers

SF author and freelancer John Scalzi has recently been blogging about money issues for writers. He just posted a link to this great personal story of how one writer got into the business. She is more of a “pure” freelancer than I am, writing for publication under her own name. What’s odd about this is that she mentions The Well-Fed Writer which, according to my memory, didn’t encourage pursuing magazines. That was John Scalzi’s advice, which is why I now own a copy of The Writer’s Market, which I have never used to find work (Though I have found another project for which it is necessary. No. Not a door jam. Something to do with publishing.)

But maybe her story will convince me to try something new, even though my chance of breaking into the biological sciences journal industry is approximately zero.  Her story is inspiring enough to motivate me to look for some other something else that might fit me better.

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Another entry Scalzi links is this one about a writer who is thankful for his day job. Since I do have ambitions dreams of writing fiction and maybe even more nonfiction, I can’t read this post without wishing I had what he has. Spending all day at the keyboard and screen does not make it easy to do the same two to three more hours doing the same at night.

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