Archive for the ‘Writing Careers’ Category
November 5th, 2009
By: Julia H. Jackson
Rachel Van Blankenship is a features designer for the Times-Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, as well as a poet and photojournalist. Her work has taken her all across the United States, where she has worked with reporters and designers to present stories in creative ways.
Rachel also just finished the first draft of I Am My Own Daughter, a novel in poems. Rachel agreed to share some tips for young journalists and writers for our latest installment of Writing Careers: Real Tips from Real Writers.
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October 30th, 2009
By: Julia H. Jackson
Leanne Milway Chabalko is a copywriter in San Francisco whose career achievements and professional background echo the trajectory of the online journalism and advertising boom. Now an established copywriter at Oglivy West, she has developed campaigns for clients such as Yahoo!, Cisco, Wells Fargo, and the San Francisco Department of the Environment. She got her start at USA Today.com, where she first learned how to write for the web, a skill that can be applied to marketing, advertising, development, and business. Forget Mad Men – Leanne and her compatriots go beyond the print world to find creativity in advertising. She agreed to share some ideas with us here at Eduify for our next installment in Writing Careers: Real Tips from Real Writers.
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October 21st, 2009
By Julia H. Jackson
Matthew Clark Davison is, among other things, a fiction writer, lecturer at San Francisco State University, an Artist Mentor with the San Francisco Performing Arts Workshop, a private writing coach, and teacher of a non-academic writing workshop called The Douglass Street Lab. He also is the Faculty Advisor for the SFSU graduate literary magazine Fourteen Hills. His novel manuscript ROADMAP won the Clark/Gross Novel-in-Progress Contest and was granted a Stonewall Alumni Association Award for excellence. His current novel manuscript, Letters to the Dead, was awarded a Cultural Equities Grant from The City of San Francisco. His short stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly’s Unbound, 580 Split, and Lodestar Quarterly. These days he teaches eight classes a week, and yet nearly every night he still makes time to write. He agreed to offer some tips for young writers for this second installment of our series on Writing Careers—Real Tips From Real Writers.
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October 19th, 2009
By: Julia Jackson
Meet Larry Smith
Meet Larry Smith: writer-editor extraordinaire. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Slate, and Salon. He was also the senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, executive editor at Yahoo! Internet Life, articles editor at Men’s Journal, founding editor of P.O.V., editor-in-chief of Egg, and an editor of Dave Eggers’ Might magazine. His online magazine, SMITH Mag, provides a host of resources for everyday writers, and also features the Six-Word Memoir project, which has produced enough memorable memoirs to publish a series of Six Word anthologies. He enthusiastically agreed to answer some questions for us for our third installment of Writing Careers: Real Tips from Real Writers.
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October 9th, 2009
By Julia Jackson
When I was a senior in high school, a real live writer came to my English class. She was a successful novelist, a middle-aged woman who later went on to win a series of literary awards. After she spoke about her latest novel, my teacher opened the class up to questions. I raised my hand and asked, “What advice do you have for young people who want to support themselves as writers?”
The author, who has since gone on to become a renowned writer and somewhat of a local hero in my hometown, smiled grimly and said: “Marry rich.” I put my hand down and before I could respond, someone else asked a question. Class resumed and it seemed that no one else was bristling as much as I was. How could this be true? This was the twenty-first century! Surely there were better ways of being a professional writer and a healthy individual in the world. The author both crashed my confidence and instilled a lifelong desire to prove her wrong, all in one fell swoop.
Just how do you become a professional writer? And how do writers combine their technical skills with careers that support themselves? Well, there are a lot of ways to do it. Welcome to Writing Careers: Real Tips from Real Writers. Over the next few weeks, we will be profiling professional writers who work in various media. Read the rest of this entry »
