Posted on 30 July 2008
I had this idea the other day. What if I spent one month, really focusing on my writing? Not just polishing prose that will never get published, but actually thinking like an editor, finding angles and pitching my ideas to a publication. What if I spent the entire month of August, submitting a query letter [...]
Posted on 28 July 2008
While researching on writersmarket.com I ran across the listing for the perennial dog lover’s magazine from the seventies: Dog Fancy. Curious, I clicked through to the submission guidelines, where I found this instruction:
“No stories written from a dog’s point of view.”
Which can only mean that they have not only received stories set inside the mind [...]
Posted on 24 July 2008
If you’re an aspiring writer or better yet, an aspiring travel writer, you might run across several opportunities to make a name for yourself by writing for free.
I know many people have covered this before, but recent events have changed my mind about the entire write-for-exposure market. If you had asked me two months ago, [...]
Posted on 22 July 2008
In my last post, Finding the Words in Brussels, Geoff commented that “I find it sad that it’s quite rare that one of the many languages spoken is Dutch”, and while I won’t touch the political issues around the French and Dutch populations in Belgium (the Flemish community has quite a bite of political autonomy, [...]
Posted on 21 July 2008
When the shuttle bus stopped just 20 minutes away from downtown Brussels, there was a collective moan. We had just flown RyanAir from Madrid with a four hour delay and this pit stop definitely couldn’t be good. The bus driver said something in French at the front of the bus, that most of us didn’t [...]