All right, I know the answer to this: A deadline is when the person paying you says that it is. I’m not sure how the time stamps work on this blog software if you’re in a different time zone than I, but let me just say that I am starting to write this at 8:20 p.m., [...]
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When is a Deadline a Deadline?
Posted in Freelancing, Writing, tagged deadlines, procrastination on October 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Getting in Print: The Query Letter
Posted in Freelancing, Writing, tagged query letters on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So let’s say, you have thought of a story idea about your field of work that seems like a good fit for a magazine or newspaper. How do you go about placing it? A query letter is the traditional way thorugh the publisher’s door. (Actually, in the old days, submissions came in “over” the publisher’s door [...]
Telling Your Story in Print
Posted in Freelancing, Writing on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Read anything interesting lately? Where? Sure, the Internet — you’re here now. But where else? The Internet has had a huge influence on the way we communicate, but it’s not the only way we take in and share knowledge about what’s going on. If you’ve been on a train or a plane lately, chances are you’ve [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Public Speaking
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Performing, tagged public speaking on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Artists seem to fall into one of two categories: Either we are at home in front of the footlights, flirting with interviewers and seducing audiences, or we are nervous wrecks, cowering in the back of the room hoping no one will call on us. Some of us are both: I am completely comfortable giving a prepared talk to an audience [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Web Design
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Internet Issues, tagged web design on September 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First a disclaimer: We’re not really talking about web design here. We’re talking about something much more simple: Getting your stuff on the web, using resources that are readily available and inexpensive. It’s easy to be intimidated: professional web design can be a complex art form, incorporating visual design elements like type, color selection, text blocks, widgets, pictures, charts, and [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Writing
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Writing on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Writing is dead,” A business major once told me. “Who cares? I’ll just have my secretary do it.” Fast forward a few years: “I was wrong. I wish I knew how to write better. We don’t even HAVE secretaries anymore.” Yes, IMing and text messaging have created a new sub-language. But computers have not led us [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Intro
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, tagged essential skills for artists on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You know the stereotype of the artist: We musicians, painters, or writers are locked away in our garrets, obsessively making music, slapping paint on a canvas, or struggling to come up with the perfect metaphor. Sometimes I WISH that’s all we had to do! As we all learn, all too soon, creating our art is only part of the equation [...]
Myth of the Starving Artist?
Posted in Business Issues, Creative Communities, Freelancing, tagged NEA economic data, starving artist on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the weekend, I was at a reunion for a summer camp I used to go to, and inevitably, there was a lot of updating of information: where people had ended up, who had kids (and grand-kids, even), who still was in touch with whom, and what work people were doing. “I’m a writer and a music teacher and a piano player” [...]
Money Ups and Downs
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, tagged freelancing and cash flow on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Probably one of the hardest parts of the transition from the company life to the self-employed life is that little business of no paycheck. Sure, we’ve all been known to complain about the paychecks we’ve had (the last regular check I had was more than 18 years ago, but I still remember feeling that it could have been [...]
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