Getting back in the groove, hopefully
I submitted my first paying article in months, a review of Douglas Rushkoff's Life Inc. It was 70% over length and 2 days past my self-imposed deadline.
My journalism output has dropped sharply over the past year or so, both in gross revenue and in total number of pieces printed. Part of that has to do with forgetting the first rule of freelancing: pester. I'm not competitive, yet freelancing involves fighting for the editor's scarce attention. I've sent several queries to a certain editor, and never followed them up, so I assumed that they were ignored. I'll also admit to taking this a little too personally, as an individual snub, instead of being the nature of the business.
Of course, I have to try to get back into the freelancing game just when the money is drying up and everything is restructuring.
My journalism output has dropped sharply over the past year or so, both in gross revenue and in total number of pieces printed. Part of that has to do with forgetting the first rule of freelancing: pester. I'm not competitive, yet freelancing involves fighting for the editor's scarce attention. I've sent several queries to a certain editor, and never followed them up, so I assumed that they were ignored. I'll also admit to taking this a little too personally, as an individual snub, instead of being the nature of the business.
Of course, I have to try to get back into the freelancing game just when the money is drying up and everything is restructuring.