I started writing for money at the age of 20, when I got a paid internship at my university. My supervisors were a writer from the University Relations Department and a Pulitzer-prize nominated former music critic from the Chicago Tribune. One or the other, usually both, of these mentors, plus the Public Relations Director, reviewed [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Writers, Editors, and Why Writers in the Age of an Unedited Internet Need Editors More Than Ever
Posted in Freelancing, Writing, tagged editing, Internett, linkedin, writing on September 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I Published, I Was Published; Do We Care, and Why?
Posted in Freelancing, Writing on September 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Oh, dear, as if I don’t already have enough pet peeves, I’ve got to go and find a new one. (Actually, this one has been brewing for a few years now.) It’s the active versus passive use of the verb “to publish,” as in the difference between “I published” and “I was published.” And my [...]
Passable to Professional: Surefire Ways to Improve Your Writing
Posted in Craft, Freelancing, Writing, tagged linkedin, writing technique on September 11, 2011 | 13 Comments »
At one of the publishing companies I worked for many years ago, the copyeditors had a list of common and funny mistakes, which they passed around. I stumbled across that piece of paper lately and had a good laugh: The more things change, the more they stay the same. I’m editing for a couple of [...]
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