The Renegade Writer Blog

Bethany, you signed up for my Write for Magazines e-course that starts tomorrow but your e-mail is bouncing. Last week I tried finding you on Twitter and e-mailing another address that I think is yours. Please e-mail me at lindaformichelli@gmail.com. Thanks.

I’m trying to find out what free teleclass topics and Renegade Writer blog posts would be of most value to you, as well as how I can best get the word out about our offerings such as e-courses and phone mentoring, so I developed a short survey. Please take a few minutes and complete the [...]

I’ve come to realize that the Renegade Writer’s blogroll is seriously out of date. I want the blogroll to be a great source for writers looking for other professional blogs, and I also would like to return the blogroll love to those writing blogs that link to the Renegade Writer. If you have a writing [...]

Mike Stelzner over at the Writing White Papers Blog is running the fourth annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers contest. We were thrilled to be in the top 10 last year, and since then we’ve added even more helpful posts — especially on motivation and productivity — as well as interviews with such successful freelancers [...]

For an article for a writers’ magazine, I’m looking for writers who have gone through the following sticky situations, who would like to share what happened to them and how they solved the problem. I’m also looking for other sticky situations, though I may have enough here for this short article:
* A key source insists [...]

The moment happened three weeks ago. My husband told me our auto insurance company needed the title to a car that had been totaled. My stomach sank. I knew the title was in our safe deposit box over at the bank. When my son was a toddler he’d wreaked havoc in my office, picking labels [...]

Welcome to the “before” pictures of my office (click on pictures for a better view). It’s a bit of a mess, as you can see (and really, you can’t see the messiest parts of it in this picture) and so, in preparation for 2009, I’m sitting at the desk, getting ready to give it a [...]

Renegade Writer instructor Alison Stein Wellner and I have decided to out ourselves in 2009. No, not like that … like this:
We’re slobs! We decided that in 2009, we’re going to clean up our freelancing lives, and that starts with our offices. We’ll start by showing you photos of what we’re dealing with (believe us, [...]

I’ve been struggling with a book proposal for going on two years. Every couple of weeks, my husband asks, “How’s the X book coming?” and I feel the pool of despair inch out a little farther in my gut. This weekend he asked again and I snapped, “It’s not, okay? Lay off!” I rarely snap, [...]

I’m not a big reader of essays, but earlier this year I was pointed to an essay at the Washington Post written by Lori Hall Steele, a freelance writer I know from Freelance Success. By the end of her essay, my heart felt as if it were going to break in two. Go ahead. Read [...]