The Renegade Writer Blog

(Back in 2006, Linda wrote a post about health and the freelancer. These odds & ends are a continuation.)
Watch your butt
This is an indelicate subject, but I’m an indelicate person, so here goes.
The more successful you are as a freelancer, the more you sit on your ass. Sitting for hours a day at a keyboard [...]

I finally got around to watching No Country for Old Men through Netflix last night. I love gritty films like this, where there’s not necessarily a neat, tidy ending. Plus, my expectations were set high because of so many recommendations people had given me.
The acting was superb. I could barely stand to put the movie [...]

Whenever I get together with my one of my local writing buddies (and friend!), our meeting generates a bazillion ideas for this blog. We should meet up more often, D!
We were chatting about an online board we both belong to and wondering what possesses people to share so much with strangers. I’m not talking about [...]

Earlier this year I interviewed a wonderful woman on a sensitive topic for a national health magazine. The article came out a few months ago and all was well. Then, I received an e-mail from the source: the article had been picked up by a national news service’s website, and it’s the first thing that [...]

Yeah, yeah, yeah — the trash from the July 4 parades is still on the ground, we know. Well, if you’re one of those freaks who actually loves buying school supplies in August and yearns for that first day of school every September (hand raised here), he’s something that’ll polish your pencil case — we’ve [...]