The word economy

Every time a newspaper or magazine is redesigned, the call for additional white space and images shrink the spaces available for articles. New media publications demand that writing be as concise and interactive as possible. Writers’ roles have shifted. We have to think more like television and radio producers and learn to better [...]

Your input wanted: Favorite writing sites

As I continue to go through my bookmarks to pull the blogroll of this site together, I would love to find out which sites about writing that you find most useful, fun or illuminating. I will also be doing some site reviews on this blog. Please post links to sites you feel are worth [...]

“Link journalism”: Sharp or shiftless?

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has been working to circulate a new term that he coined: “link journalism.” It’s the process of aggregating stories from on-line publications and blogs that has made outlets like Drudge and the Huffington Post lucrative with minimal overhead, and could be better applied by existing news publications, or used effectively [...]

The beginning…

Over the years, I’ve received multiple emails from wanna-be freelancers asking for help or advice as they tried to launch their writing careers — many more emails than I’ve been able to answer. I’ve always kept a link page available for these visitors, directing them to a few online resources that I thought might be [...]