getting work and keeping work (neil gaiman and gifs)
Inspired by Neil Gaiman’s two-of-three rule, I made a two-of-three rule specifically for pitching magazine articles.
MoreFreelance writer and editor. Made in Ohio, based in Berlin.
Freelance Life
content strategy for creative businesses
Thinking about content strategy for creative businesses is seriously my jam right now — my background in magazine editing and my long-running craft business are kind of colliding in a creative supernova, and I’m working on some ideas to roll out to the world. I contributed a post over at CraftyPod on content strategy, and […]
MoreWorking for Free? Someone’s Got to Get Paid
I’ve been thinking a lot about getting paid lately. Not only because I’ve been a self-employed editor and writer for the last six months, but because the internet blew up this week over an incident in which The Atlantic asked a writer to adapt a hella long story for zero dollars. Freelance writers went into […]
Morenew: quit your job zine
Remember how I quit my job last year? This zine is my testimony of how I followed my heart and left my dream job and gets more into the details of how and why I quit. Now for sale on Etsy! An aerial view of my desk while I was working on the zine:
MoreOMG I quit my job
I totally quit my job last week. It wasn’t some kind of take-this-job-and-shove-it table-flipping experience. It was totally civilized and without raised voices or tears. I gave five weeks’ notice, and my last day is going to be Sept. 4. So what’s my deal? I remained employed for the entirety of the great recession—no small […]
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