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Randi Minetor, ASJA
 What motivates you to write? Are you driven to write by an inner fire, or do you write because it pays the bills? Or are you living the worst-case scenario, writing to prove your worth and skill to someone who once doubted your capability?
My writing career began with a blazing, emotional need to write, but even as my college professors encouraged me to become a professional writer, one voice — one I believed and trusted above all others — told me otherwise.
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From IPProTheInternet, David Leichtman
David Leichtman of Robins Kaplan explains why the U.S. Supreme Court needs to take up the infamous Google Books case, which is now a decade old. "The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its long awaited decision on Oct. 16 in the decade-old copyright litigation, referred to as Google Books. Finding that Google’s scanning of millions of in-copyright books and providing excerpts for free over the internet as 'snippets' is a fair use, the Second Circuit took the opportunity to expand the 'transformative use' definition used in fair use analysis. Many believe this is a further encroachment on copyright protection that is detrimental to authors and other copyright owners."
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ASJA
The holidays are a great time for giving to those in need, especially your fellow freelance writers. Since 1982, many talented and deserving men and women have appealed to the Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (WEAF), often as their last hope for help. The mission of the WEAF is to help established freelance writers who, because of advanced age, illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis are unable to work. Please consider donating to WEAF during this holiday season.
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Writer's Digest
Author Sejal Badani, an ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship and CBS Writing Fellowship Finalist, writes: "Persuaded by her words, I re-purposed the emotions of my past and created a story. Fact surrounded by fiction. Dialogue intermingled with emotional charge. Characters I had never met but knew so well filled the pages. I walked a fine balance between truth and the tale. It was both cathartic and frightening to spill my secrets in a story in which the characters were hiding theirs. It was a story about what I knew."
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The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild, the nation's largest and oldest society of professional writers, discussed the benefits of competitive e-book pricing in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court of the United States.
The brief, filed jointly by the Authors Guild, Authors United, the American Booksellers Association, and Barnes & Noble, bolsters ongoing advocacy efforts by the Authors Guild and Authors United and asks the Supreme Court to review a decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Apple.
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Nail Your Novel
An author name is a brand, of course, and traditional publishing has a long history of strategic pseudonymery. Names or initials might make a writer sound more exciting, more serious, more like an already famous author (JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin, anyone?). Androgynous names might do you favors if your readership is gender sensitive. A new surname might put you at a more visible part of the bookshelves or next to giants of your genre (George RR Martin again).
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Columbia Journalism Review
Print is beautiful. It can't notify you when a work email arrives, can't be tweeted mid-sentence, and won't die without a charger. Even better, it's finite.
It's also supposed to be dead. For years, the new media vanguard has preached "digital first" and the death knell has sounded again and again for print, as legendary magazines moved online or ceased publication altogether. Now, 20 years into the digital revolution, print is making something of a comeback.
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Book Works
It's never too early to think about your book cover design. Even if you've got writer's block, at least you'll feel like you're getting some work done. And you are! Here are eight ways to jump start your book cover design process, including resources for artwork and photography. When it's time to hire a cover designer, you'll be able to judge from their portfolio if they're right for you, and you'll also be ready for an educated and productive conversation with them.
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MediaShift
Since the advent of the Internet, publishers have been trying to leverage distribution channels — such as social media networks — to drive traffic to their own websites. Now, though, content can be hosted and monetized on these third-party platforms through services including Facebook's Instant Articles or Snapchat's Discover. As such, we can see the emergence of a new wave of "homeless" media companies that don't require a home page; their sole purpose is to syndicate content.
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American Press Institute
Journalists can use Twitter in many different ways. They can reveal personal details or maintain a purely professional profile. They can interact with their followers or focus on tweeting news and information.
Those choices journalists make about how to behave on Twitter can influence what people think about them, according to new research from assistant professor Mi Rosie Jahng of Hope College and assistant professor Jeremy Littau of Lehigh University.
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