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ASJA
 Michael Lucker is a writer, director and producer with 20 years of experience creating film and television. He began his career writing and directing television commercials, while earning his undergraduate degree in broadcasting and film at Boston University’s College of Communication.
Soon after, he landed in Los Angeles working in production for ABC, NBC and CBS before taking a job as assistant to Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment on feature films "Always," "Arachnophobia" and "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade.” Lucker went onto serve in creative affairs on feature films at Hollywood Pictures before embarking on a career as a screenwriter, helping pen screenplays for Paramount, Disney, DreamWorks, Fox and Universal, including “Vampire In Brooklyn,” “Home On The Range,” “Mulan II" and "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron,” which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 as best animated feature.
An opportunity to serve as creative consultant to Turner Entertainment took Lucker to Atlanta in 2007. He went onto launch his own production company, Lucky Dog Filmworks, which now serves as his home for creating film, television and commercial content. In television, he has worked with Animal Planet, Cartoon Network, Travel Channel, History, Discovery, NBC, TBS, TNT, TLC, OWN, DIY, MSNBC and A&E.
A renowned instructor in screenwriting, Lucker presently serves as screenwriting advisor to the Atlanta Film Festival, national advisor to the Serenbe Artist in Residence program, founder of Screenwriter School, mentor to the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Reinhardt University, lecturer in screenwriting at Emory University and professor of film and media studies at University of North Georgia. He is currently adapting a true-life novel about bank robberies and completing a soon-to-be-published book on screenwriting for Michael Wiesse Productions.
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Small Business Trends
If you love writing, you very well could be destined for entrepreneurship. There are so many different businesses that revolve around writing. So if you have the skills and the desire to write for a living, here are some business ideas that could be perfect for you.
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Bustle
Freelance writing! It's the perfect job if you want to be a writer, but you're not too attached to the idea of job security or regular meals. Between the internet and the self-publishing boom, it's more possible than ever to eke out a meager existence as a freelance writer. You, too, can be a gremlin who sits at home writing all day and never leaves the house! But if you're going to be a full-time freelancer, you're going to need a few survival tips for freelance writers.
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The WRITER
If you ever watched the TV show Hoarders, you know how hoarding anything can cripple a person’s freedom. The homes of extreme hoarders have clutter, some rotting and covered with insects, piled to the ceiling. The hoard, with its toxic stench, entombs the people, preventing them from moving forward in their lives.
Likewise, a hoard of ideas can overwhelm you as a writer and keep your best ones buried and forgotten.
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mediabistro
Before I got my feet wet as a technical writer, I thought the field was about drawing up instruction manuals or legal documents. Maybe at a higher level some of these people got to write NASA reports or top-secret government stuff, but the options for technical writing for someone like me were probably limited to explaining how to put together a cabinet or work a coffee machine.
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ASJA
 Longtime ASJA member, Estelle Erasmus, has been appointed conference chair for the 2017 ASJA Conference, May 5-6 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The theme of the conference is Pivot. Publish. Prosper.
Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach and former magazine editor-in-chief at Hachette's Body by Jake, The American Breast Cancer Guide, Women in Touch and more. She was also a top editor at American Woman and a beauty editor at Woman's World magazine, which have a combined reach of over 10 million readers. She is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and has been a member of ASJA since 1997.
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Poynter
At last week's Online News Association conference, futurist Amy Webb listed several journalism jobs of the near-future, including a data and algorithms investigator, an augmented reality producer, a lead data scientist and a platforms manager. The list raised several eyebrows on Twitter, particularly for the jobs that Webb considers “out” — which include roles like “reporter” and “fact-checker.”
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The WRITER
If you've ever gone birding — but without binoculars or a clear idea of what a jay or robin or red-tailed hawk actually looks or sounds like — it’s likely you came home disappointed, persuaded that the trees were empty. But once you know what to look for, it’s hard not to spot birds all around you.
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Huddled
Writing the perfect press release is like baking a cake: you must follow the recipe precisely and it’s a good idea to steer clear of throwing in unnecessary ingredients that aren’t needed. Afterall, you don’t want all your hard work to have a poor outcome.
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Forbes
Is your 9 to 5 gig slowly killing you? Do you think you have the talent to make it on your own? Then it’s probably time to quit your day job and start your freelance business. But many people I know who feel called to pursue their dreams of starting a freelance business don’t actually take the plunge unless forced out by layoffs. There could be many reasons for this, including concern about how they’d fare financially, fear of leaving the security of a day job and a lack of a plan to make a successful exit. If you’re contemplating quitting your day job and launching your freelance business, here’s a roadmap you can use.
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Tech.co
As freelance workers have become more common in workplaces, the roles they take have gradually evolved in recent years. Today’s freelancers can fit into an organization in a variety of ways, allowing them to either operate independently from employees or work side-by-side with their salaried colleagues. Whether you’ve already made freelancers a part of your team or you’re merely thinking about it, there are many options open to you.
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Editor & Publisher
If there ever was a time to double down and get serious about the pace of your newspaper’s digital transformation, now may be it. Recently, Pew released its annual "State of the News Media" report, and if you were hoping to see a bottoming out of declining print revenues, prepare to be disappointed.
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