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ASJA
Eight panels are scheduled for Dream Bold Atlanta, the one-day ASJA writing conference Nov. 5 at Agnes Scott College in Decatur including “Dream of Writing for Stage and Screen” with Michael Lucker, “Dream of Breaking In and Making Big Bucks from Business Writing” moderated by Peter Bowerman and “Dream of Breaking Into Trade, Custom, Digital and Alumni Magazines” moderated by Wendy Helfenbaum.
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ASJA
Do you have a great idea for a session at the next annual conference? Is it interactive? Focused on craft? Are you a single speaker with an important tool, concept, story or insight to share?
The theme of this conference is Pivot. Publish. Prosper. We are looking beyond panels (although we will have some), and we are focusing on diversity.
We welcome all ideas.
Click here to submit.
mediabistro.com
If you’re a freelancer, you may have given up your day job because you found the pay and the hours better than your old 9-to-5. Or maybe you’re working freelance because you haven’t been able to land that dream full-time gig.
Either way, you may not be making as much as you like, and find your income routinely comes in south of $100,000 a year. If you’re looking to break through that barrier, read on: We’ve got the secrets to hitting and surpassing that magic six-figure mark, from freelancers who do it year after year.
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The WRITER
For many users of social media, the usual rules of writing are suspended. A tweet caps out at 140 characters, not exactly allowing for much nuance or depth, and a Facebook conversation might be reduced to a sentence or two, accompanied by a link to a YouTube video of cats playing the piano.
But to the professional, for whom social media and blogging can be powerful communication and promotional tools, “Good writing still counts,” says Mo Krochmal, who teaches the craft of writing for the web.
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Poynter.
If two examples constitute a trend, then a movement is afoot among editors to encourage short writing. It began at The Washington Post, where an editor argued that many stories could be tighter. Before you could say “Strunk and White,” an editor at The Wall Street Journal made the same case.
What came next was predictable, and, from the point of view of us long-winded scribes, delectable. A writer declared, essentially, “Editor, heal thyself,” creating a marked-up version of the memo to cut its clutter.
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Forbes
A large-scale survey of the freelance economy shows that the number of freelance workers is growing quickly, with the number of U.S. freelancers hitting 55 million this year, up from 53 million in 2014 and 53.7 million last year.
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Writer's Digest
In 2012, right before my third novel, "Forgotten" was released, my agent let me know that my U.S. publisher, William Morrow, would not be picking up my fourth novel, Hidden. I was, to put it gently, upset. My first and second novels had published with them that year, had been well-reviewed, Target Emerging Author Picks and mid-list sellers. Also: No one ever talks about being rejected after getting a book deal! When I recovered, my agent and I decided to take the book out to new publishers in 2013 and to include Amazon’s new Lake Union imprint in the mix.
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Yahoo News
Despite the belief that most of us are slogging through 9-to-5 workdays, it turns out the average American workweek is a measly 34 hours. Meanwhile, full-time freelancers are logging 36 hours of work per week.
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