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Writers Getting Paid is a site all about the tips, tricks, secrets, and strengths of writers who've figured out how to make a living doing what they love. I interview my friends and colleagues who get paid to write; and I share all of their insights here with you. [More...]
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Reporting OF THE FUTURE: Take Google Wave. Please.
Posted on March 19, 2010 | View CommentsI visited the Googleplex in Mountain View last night for an interesting presentation by the Wave team. It was part of Hacks & Hackers, a group of journalists and engineer-types who try to find neat ways to work together (rather than at odds with each... -
SFist Editor Brock Keeling Can’t Wait for the Future, is Full of Surprises
Posted on March 18, 2010 | View CommentsSFist editor Brock Keeling doesn’t even need to pause to think about it: “Best time,” he replies instantly to my question about whether now is the best or the worst time in history to try to make a living as a writer. “The future is... -
Journalist’s New Clothes: Dress Yourself Up Like a Paradigm Shift
Posted on March 17, 2010 | View CommentsThere’s a half-interesting, half-exasperating article from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard about the changing business of funding journalism. On the interesting side: the author (founder of photo agency VII) has a lot of optimistic things to say about the impending changes in the journalism industry.... -
An Argument Against Writing Movie Reviews
Posted on March 16, 2010 | View CommentsIn my conversation with Eve last week, I floated the idea of picking up some work here and there writing movie reviews. It’s something I’ve done fairly frequently and fairly well — albeit for free — and Eve shot me down pretty quick. “The market’s... -
Naughty Comic Book Author Justin Hall Gets All Hands-On
Posted on March 15, 2010 | View CommentsA few years back, I wrote about and interviewed Justin Hall for SFist and for a podcast. His book, Hard to Swallow, was so raunchy and obscene that it made some people awfully uncomfortable. (There followed one particularly awkward conversation when a baffled coworker requested... -
Big Time Literary Agent Ted Weinstein Talks About Forming Your Own Nitty Gritty Literary Committee
Posted on March 14, 2010 | View CommentsLast week I had the pleasure of seeing a talk by Ted Weinstein, literary agent TO THE STARS. The stars in this case are mostly nerds: NPR’s math guy, the 826 Valencia people, a webcomic artist who makes jokes about charts. Ted’s talk was about... -
Illustrator Jon Burgerman and the Urgency of Exercise
Posted on March 13, 2010 | View CommentsThere’s a delightful interview over at Subvert Magazine with fabulous illustrator Jon Burgerman. One thing that popped out at me: exercise. Jon writes, “I’m pretty unfit but I do manage to get to the gym a couple of times a week if I’m not traveling.... -
Eve Batey, Founder of SF Appeal, Recommends Pitching with Prototypes
Posted on March 13, 2010 | View CommentsI started off by talking to my friend Eve Batey, who I met back in 2004 when we were both writing — unpaid — for SFist. When she took over editorship of that blog, I found that it was a pleasure to work with her,... -
Writers Getting Paid
Posted on March 12, 2010 | View CommentsOh hey welcome! This is the inaugural post of Writers Getting Paid, a blog about exactly what it sounds like: writers whose financial security affords them luxury of being able to focus on their craft. Getting paid to write is not about getting rich! Oh...