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Blogging Isn't Freelance Nirvana but It Can Pay Off
I've been blogging now and then for AOL's WalletPop and finding it fun and even reasonably lucrative.
As a long-time journalist, when I first started blogging, I found it difficult to inject opinion and personality into these short pieces. While I spent years writing editorials for small newspapers, which is similar work, even those don't allow for much personal input. I'm still not altogether sure that this approach, which seems to be taking over all kinds of journalism, serves readers as well as the inverted pyramid, hands-off, just-the-facts, ma'am style of stories I grew up writing. But it is undoubtedly where the most freelance work can be found, so I've learned to do it and to like it.
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"I really lucked out last issue (Op-Eds). Had just written a hard-to-place essay. The market info for the op-eds was so detailed and helpful that i knew at a glance which newspaper might be a good bet. Sent it that day and sold it. Broke into a new market I've been hoping for, too.
(Chicago Tribune)."- Pat Olsen
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Member Blogs
Speaking of Cars
by Keith Buglewicz
Shaun Carlson Dead at 35
(6 Oct 2009, 12:23 pm)
FLXers Write Books Too
The titles featured here were all published in 2009. If you're looking for a gift or just something absorbing to read, take a spin through this collection.
Sounds Like Crazy
by Shana Mahaffey. A darkly comic and ultimately healing story about Holly Miller, an Emmy Award-winning cartoon voiceover performer who has actual voices in her head, multiple personalities who make her career a huge success, and shield her from a terrible secret in her past.