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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

October 8th, 2007

Golden Pencil, b5 and the Business Channel

Way back when, this blog became part of b5’s Arts and Design channel, there were a several other blogs there about writing. It was a logical choice at the time.
Of course, things change as they always do and it became obvious that this blog, which is really aimed at the business of freelance writing belonged […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

October 7th, 2007

Freelance Writers and the Fear of Success and/or Money

Over in our forum, Barb asked if I had ever written about freelance writers and the fear of money.
I hadn’t, but as I watched the thread develop, I saw some themes, including fear of success, fear of talking about money, fear of making money, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, not every freelance writer has a […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

April 26th, 2007

Shooting Fallout – Is This What We Want?

Google news has almost 70 stories listed with headlines like “Massacre fallout: Charges for essay” and “High school senior charged after writing ‘disturbing’ essay.”
You can read the details but as I understand the story, a senior high school class in northern Illinois was assigned to write an essay that, among other things, was to […]

By Anne Wayman -- 9 comments