March 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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Free Range: Advice : The New Yorker →
August 2010
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Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A... →
“The Incongruous Quarterly accepts fiction and poetry. There are deadlines for...”
– the incongruous quarterly - publishing the unpublishable
ADVICE: Freelance editorial
unsustainable:
parasols:
I know I’m bad with updating and then I get into a place where I do it too much, but! I just got offered my first freelance editing job. It is still peculiar (and somewhat exhilarating) to be able to call myself a writer or an editor in a legitimate fashion. The woman asked me what I would charge her to help her whip her novel into shape to submit to publishers (whoa,...
“Freelancing is basically just courtship, but the freelancer-editor relationship...”
– Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup - The Awl
May 2010
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Look at Me! : CJR →
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“Writers’ Guidelines We’re always looking for excellent, original,...”
– The Smart Set - About Us
The dangers of travel writing to the self →
Tips for Freelancers, Artists, and Other Creative... →
SO GREAT! Lifestyle tips, not professional ones.
1. Learn how to cook. You may think I’m joking. This is the most important piece of advice of them all. I would be not be an arts critic right now if I didn’t know how to cook. The fastest way to decimate your income is to go out to eat all the time. Especially in a city like New York. I’m not saying don’t go out to eat; I love restaurants. But...
Addendum to "Kids Who Would Be King"
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April 2010
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AAAS - Internship Opportunities →
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HTMLGIANT / Conversation with the fabulous... →
LH: You work a 9-5, which is something I find completely foreign. (I’m a totally bourgie—or I was at least—academic.) What do you do, and how do you think your writing fits in? KR: Okay, I’m going to answer your question, I promise, but the whole writer-in-the-academy versus writer-not-in-the-academy dichotomy makes me feel all soap-boxy. I’ve been a professor of creative writing and I’ve been a...
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Dude, I totally emailed this lady when I was working for MacArthur a few summers ago!
Keywords: writing about life
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March 2010
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Thoughts on Autobiography from an Abandoned...
nybooks:
Janet Malcolm
Republica Portuguesa, a collage by Janet Malcolm, 6¼ x 17 in., 2003 (Courtesy of Lori Bookstein Fine Art)
I have been aware, as I write this autobiography, of a feeling of boredom with the project. My efforts to make what I write interesting seem pitiful. My hands are tied, I feel. I cannot write about myself as I write about the people I have written about as a...
NewsComp 10a « The Crimson’s News Comp →
Journalist 101
“The Pulp Of 2010″ - The Rumpus.net →
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“Let’s be frank. Freeing authors of fiction from the bonds of real-world drudgery...”
– How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital Future « The New Psalmanazar
McPhee reveals how the pieces go together -... →
sarzhaplus:
A neat little piece about John McPhee’s writing and teaching. He sounds like fantastic teacher.
This is rare for such an accomplished writer.
He draws line diagrams of the structure of his pieces.
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More Advice from Sandy Alexander
You will soon get a job. Most jobs are about tradeoffs: the radiologist gives up touching patients and gets a nicer schedule. But a few jobs are so much better than others that they seem to leave the world of tradeoffs behind. You should keep a list of those, both because you might want one and because it’s interesting.If you make a list and analyze it, you will observe that one category...
sarzha[+]: My rules for great questions →
From the coolest tutor in the house, solid advice.
My rules for great questions are:
Three virtues you can test by examining the question:
Singular: Ask only one question at a time. For example, ask “What was your worst day in prison?” not “What were your worst and best days in prison?”
…
February 2010
2 posts
Tips For Successful Book Reviewing « Rebecca... →
Bookfuturists
A few nights ago, the people behind some of my favorite site (Tomorrow Museum, Hilobrow, and Significant Objects) put together an event to discuss the future of books and storytelling. I wrangled together some friends, and we headed sans directions into the frosty night, toward the Microsoft NERD Center (New England Research and Development, real name).
What follows is a brain purge of ideas...
January 2010
3 posts
“First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star/astronaut. A movie...”
– And this from Lorrie Moore on how to become a writer - Bobulate: Try to be anything else
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Earthquakes and Journalism: Think Tank : The New... →
Journalism is not a particularly esteemed profession, but its capacity to bear witness remains one of its more redeeming attributes. At moments like this in Haiti, a journalist’s function as a witness can be relatively uncomplicated, in comparison to, say, the processes of political or investigative reporting. In the field during a natural disaster of this scale, you do feel at times ghoulish and...
December 2009
5 posts
“There comes a time in every science writer’s career when one must write about...”
– Kinkiness Beyond Kinky | The Loom | Discover Magazine
“The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the...”
– under the bark: Joan Didion, Last Words
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“I don’t mean to sound like an old codger, but I remember when I started...”
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How to thrive in New York with no money and no...
alice-emme:
cowgirlblues:
1. Be under twenty four.
2. Shop at the fence across from Max Fish. Make friends with old woman who finds clothes in garbages and in her attic and hangs them on the fence.
3. Have an equally as poor girl friend who wears found clothing and wears it till it rips and withers off.
4. Offer to crouch down in cabs and lay across peoples’ knees to feign invisbility when...
November 2009
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Tips For Successful Book Reviewing at rebecca... →
Tips on Breaking In →
Rebecca Skoot
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CABINET // Submissions Guidelines →
IMPORTANT: Please note that we receive a large number of submissions. In order to be able to look at everything we get and not keep you hanging for months, our submission policy is as follows: — We will only contact you if we can use your submission. — We will contact you within 6 weeks of submission. If you have not heard from us within 6 weeks, assume that we were not able to use your...
October 2009
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Writing and Rejection.
merlin:
[First. Second. Then…]
steampoweredmedia:
Also, you want a great high? Get a great rejection letter from a place like Esquire. I did and do and I save them all.
Somewhere, deep in our garage, I think I still have my first rejection from The Atlantic (ca. 1990). Blue embossed type on heavy card stock, if memory serves. Classy. Distinguished. Albeit, not signed.
And, I can’t begin to...
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Wunderkammer →
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Malcolm Gladwell's advice for young journalists:... →
farhad:
From a Time Q&A:
Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master’s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that’s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get smarter.
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Triple Canopy →
We accept work and proposals on equal footing. Some issues are defined by a particular theme, others are not; we will list upcoming themes here as they become known to us.
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We’re most interested in writing that, in its form, considers and utilizes the Internet as a medium with its own specific qualifies and attendant modes of readership, whether that means thinking beyond the...
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Gelf Magazine →
Gelf is also always on the lookout for writing talent.
Gelf’s slogan is, “Looking over the overlooked.” We’re looking for stories that play off news—mainstream, quirky, techie and international—in creative ways. Our approach is humorous and sometimes off-kilter; we’re interested in what the other guys overlooked, and why they reported and wrote about it the way they...
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Inkling Magazine →
We will read both pitches and complete submissions. Pitches should tell us what the story is about, its angle, and why you’re the person for the job. In any case, include relevant urls and pdfs. We love links to the abstracts of any scientific papers you quote. Email queries or completed stories to Meera; expect to receive a response within a week or two, usually sooner. If your submission...
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The Morning News →
We are constantly looking for stories. Send in yours! But, please note, we do not read submissions sent as attached files. In fact, they are deleted before we even see them. As far as we know, they were never sent. (We have received too many viruses and 30MB files to afford a different policy.) Copy your text and paste it into an email; do not attach any files. We repeat, because people apparently...