The stories I wrote in 2021 did number more than three, I promise. But most of them were about cycling or fell into the realm of penning an unbylined radio news bulletin on COVID-19 public health information. So out of all the stories I wrote in 2021, here are the top three. Life in Limbo for The Age (reprinted in ...
If you didn’t know yet I have been writing crime fiction for the past entire year. I have been working on a crime fiction novel in the hopes that I could finish it off and start working on the next one. But it is taking time. And last year I decided to livestream the writing so I could get ...
I mentioned my income goals in my last post but what most people want to know is how much do freelancers make? So here is what I made NOT in the last financial year (since in Australia that would be from July 2021 to June 2022) but what I made in the last calendar year from January 2021 to December ...
We talked about how I am trying to set and plan goals for 2022 in the last blog post. So this one is to tell you what those goals are. Goal 1: Blogging more often Why: I started with the blog and the purpose of this blog is to provide information that I struggled to find when I first started ...
A plan for 2022 is going to start with some goals but it’s important to take stock first of what you have done. We discussed what I managed to achieve last year, last week. Are there goals, habits or systems that you want to continue with? Have some been achieved so it is time for the next phase or next ...
The 2021 year in review – were all the goals met and hit and what of COVID-19? 2021 year in review: Goal 1: Do more journalism work So with all my goal setting I set up actions that I thought would get me closer to achieving this goal. I deliberately didn’t set a target for this goal because it was ...
If you want to be a freelance writer, getting your head around how to write a freelance pitch to an editor is vital. It is something that requires a lot of practice and from time to time you will feel like you have forgotten how to go about doing it. But it isn’t that hard to send out a ...
When I first started working as a freelancer, I never really thought much about setting up the business in a way that demarcated clear boundaries about my personal time off. And I put that down to knowing I would have to work hard, having a great deal of independence and autonomy about how I could choose to spend my time ...
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So as you may know by now, I have been running #writewithme livestreams for the past few weeks. In order to create a writing habit and to help others do the same.This is a summary of what I have learned so far. 1. Three livestreams a week is probably what I can manage without making myself go blind. I am ...
In case you missed it, I am running #writewithme livestreams on Youtube and Twitch every day this week Monday to Thursday (I was too tired on Friday so it didn’t happen), for one hour at 9 am Melbourne time, 6 am Perth, Australia time and 5 pm NYC time. The livestreams are free. You can turn up with something, anything ...
“Ten minutes or so,” the guy at the pizza place says. I nod and walk out. And then walk on. Down Canning Highway, towards Freo. I should have known that when I started out to the pizzeria and found out that the girl at number 196 keeps chickens (who by comparison in size to Trouble the cat MUST be over ...
“Ten minutes or so,” the guy at the pizza place says. I nod and walk out. And then walk on. Down Canning Highway, towards Freo. Canning Highway I should have known that when I started out to the pizzeria and found out that the girl at number 196 keeps chickens (who by comparison in size to Trouble the cat ...
So in Part 1 I explained why I wanted to answer the question of becoming a freelance journalist but also clarify exactly how difficult it can be to work as a freelance journalist. In this part I am going to tell you what, in Australia at least, you need in order to become a freelance journalist and to set up ...
So in Part 1 I explained why I wanted to answer the question of becoming a freelance journalist but also clarify exactly how difficult it can be to work as a freelance journalist. In this part I am going to tell you what, in Australia at least, you need in order to become a freelance journalist and to set up ...
A couple of weeks ago, a former university friend of mine (she was doing her BA, I was doing my MA) got in touch with me and asked me to meet her for coffee. I said “Sure!” And we did and she asked me a question: “How do I get into freelancing?” This was someone who has a job at ...
A couple of weeks ago, a former university friend of mine (she was doing her BA, I was doing my MA) got in touch with me and asked me to meet her for coffee. I said “Sure!” And we did and she asked me a question: “How do I get into freelancing?” This was someone who has a job at ...
Destination: Colombo, Sri Lanka Duration: December 2015 – February 2016 Brief: I have crash landed in Colombo again, this time for two months and I will be taking on a bit of freelancing work as well as some work experience at a news organisation though as yet I am not entirely sure exactly what I will be doing so stay ...
