Organizing Your Overseas Writing Vacation By Roy Stevenson

Have you, as a freelance writer, ever considered taking an extended writing vacation? A holiday where you travel to a sunny, exotic, far off country, set up your writing shop, and continue to pound out your articles, stories, and books, while escaping the short, gray, rainy winter days back home. Sounds like the sort of thing Ernest Hemingway and R.L. Stevenson would have done, doesn’t it?

Free Article Sites are Not Content Mills

I am confused about the whole content mill thing.
As part of my book promotion and research, I came across an article advising authors to send articles to content ezines as a way to promote a book. I took the bait. Seemed reasonable. I submit short pieces, include my bio and book info., and get more exposure.

Who Do You Think You Are? By Kirsty Logan

You are a complex person, and there are nuances to your personality that cannot be summed up in a few brief adjectives. Does ‘mother of two’ encompass the highs and lows with your children, the love you feel for them, or the rollercoaster of conception, pregnancy and birth? Does ‘Christian’ explain the midnight questions you asked yourself and the balancing of faith with the realities of the world? Does ‘British’ suggest your patriotism, your political leanings, your secret love of rainy days? Of course not! People are more than just a list of traits; that’s why personal ads are so tricky to write. But you as a writer are not the same as you as a person.

Whispers And Warnings For June 23rd

UPDATE: Trula Breckenbridge / trula.org / MSPmedia / mspmedia.net, Indie Publishing & Production , Futuristic Motherhood anthology / futuristicmotherhood.com – One writer out of three who complained received a check, but still no copies of the anthology that were promised.
UPDATE: Ava Ross / YPNI Weekly Newspaper / YPNI News / ypninews.com – In an email sent to the writer on May 17, 2010, Ava Ross promises to make payment of $135 to the writer “no later than June 11, 2010”. However, the writer is still waiting…

A Hidden Surprise

We’ve been having two bedrooms repainted and refloored over the past six weeks. We had planned to have the old, ratty, who-knows-how-old-it-is carpet removed and replaced with Pergo(R) (that fake laminate flooring that resembles wood). However, we got a big surprise when they pulled up the carpet in both rooms and found old, rolled-up linoleum that wasn’t glued down. And, under the linoleum, they found a layer of old newspapers in excellent condition.

No Meat Pays By Nadia Ali

My daughter recently said she no longer eats meat, which meant there would be no more Sunday roasts or fast food burgers as part of her menu. It put me in quite a quandary. Not knowing what or how to cook without meat, I turned to the pages of vegetarian magazines, looking through recipes, articles and features. It turned out to be a real eye opener in the form of a new writing niche as I realized that between the covers of these magazines lay lots of opportunity for writing submissions.