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Patricia Skinner

About:
Freelance Writers Manifesto was a venture dreamed up by myself and Allison Landa. Together we aim to create an environment where every writer knows that accepting low-paid writing jobs is doing themselves–and every other writer–a great disservice!

Freelance Writers Manifesto:
Freelance Writers Manifesto Interview and Freelance Writers Manifesto….my discussion with Patricia Skinner…Freelance writer pay rates considered (again)… and finally, the Freelance Writers’ Manifesto

Discovered via: DWB’s MyBlogLog

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UNphotographable

About:
Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren’t meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I’d taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.

Check out:
One Hose to Another and Iguana Woman

Website: Michael David Murphy

Found at UNphotographable:
No Flash Corner

UNphotographable is by: Michael David Murphy

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Bob Bly Copywriter

Bob Bly quits … suggestions?

About:
Today I retired from writing books.

Any suggestions?

Write e-books?

Check out:
What Makes for Good Writing and Tell Us About Your Nightmare Client

Website: Bob Bly: Copywriter

Discovered via: Bloglines: My Feeds

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Jerry Weinberg

In January of this year I ordered Jerry’s book, Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method and was thrilled at the various “ah hah’s” as I worked my way through to the end. [... Continue reading ... Weinberg on Writing

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Writing, Clear and Simple

About:
Don’t panic! You CAN learn to write better.
You don’t have to revisit high-school or college composition courses, and you don’t have to slog through hard-to-understand and harder-to-memorize rules about past-participial possessive pronouns. Writing, Clear and Simple is here to help.

Check out:
Plain language is search-engine friendly and Use the Inverted Pyramid; or, “Cut to the chase”

Writing, Clear and Simple is by: Roy Jacobsen, freelance writer and editor for 20 years plus. To all you designers out there, Roy’s talents include (but are not limited to) technical writing, copyediting and writing for software development.

Discovered via: Successful blog

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ME Strauss

No matter how busy I am, if I’m near an internet connection I visit two inspiring blogs on a daily basis. Successful Blog, hosted by sweet ME Strauss (Liz), covers branding, writing, customers, ideas, has a weekly Open Mike Night chatathon, and, if you have a decent track record, you’ll come away a S.O.B. [... Continue reading ... Successful Blog

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Making Light: Absolute Write is gone

Yesterdays feature, The Middle of Nowhere (with illustrator and writer Gretel Parker), galvanized me to begin a google-feast for writers sites, blogs and books. This morning (instead of working on a web project), googling brought a writer’s kerfluffle.

In Absolute Write is gone the cast includes miffed agent Barbara Bauer, a hosting company gone sour, and the Absolute Write writers community.

Ticking off writers with blogs is just as mind-numbingly stupid as upsetting designers with blogs. Remember the LogoWorks Saga? There’s power in blogs. And with 7000 members, Absolute Write and the 20 Worst Agents Saga will be interesting to watch.

None of these agents has a significant track record of sales to commercial (advance-paying) publishers, and most have virtually no documented and verified sales at all (many sales claimed by these agents turn out to be vanity publishers). All charge clients before a sale is made, whether directly, by charging fees such as reading or administrative fees, or indirectly, for editing services.

Absolute Write is now in the process of rebuilding their site. You can see the beginnings at www.absoluteclasses.com.

The agents list can be found at www.20worstagents.com.

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