Found -- or rediscovered -- while I was looking for a free-lance writers' how-to book for advanced journalistic writing (Communications 337) in the fall: Moira Allen's Writing-World.com website for free-lance writers, people who think they might like to be free-lance writers and/or -- I would strongly suggest -- college students who are thinking about writing and editing careers.
Allen, of Chesapeake, Va., is author of "Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer," one of the books I'm considering for COMM 337. Her website has categories for writers of all skill and experience levels, from a "Beginner's World" to sections on screenwriting, self-publishing books, promotion and business angles including accounting, taxes, conracts, publication rights, plagiarism, copyright infringement and what to do if your intellectual property is stolen.
It's for journalistis, non-fiction writers, essayists (now called "creative non-fiction" writers for reasons that largely escape me), poets, mid-list novelists and fiction writers who specialize in genre categories like romance, mystery, children's lit, science fiction and fantasy. Also hard-headed, market-driven realists who write greeting card verse. A little something for everyone ... especially those of us who have bills to pay!
I'd begin at the beginning, with (flourish of trumpets) ... the "Beginner's World." Obvious enough? Easy-to-read articles on everything from commas to queries (sales letters), interviewing and time management tips, networking, article ideas and tips for finding markets (i.e. people to publish your articles). One day you're going to want to run with the big dogs, and this website will help you get out from under the porch.
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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