The Renegade Writer Blog

We’ve let our blogroll get out of date, so I’m curious: who here blogs and what do you blog about? And what is your favorite blog about blogging? Mine is Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.net — it’s a good mix of posts about blog writing and the tech/marketing side of blogging.
Give us your answers in the comments […]

A day or so ago, Linda posted a notice about our second meeting of Way North Writers, a group for New England writers to network and share leads, inspiration and advice. I’m happy to say that we have a wonderful coach coming to lead us through a workshop on clarifying our dreams and achieving goals […]

Say hello to Way North Writers, which is for working writers in MA, NH, VT, ME…really, anywhere within driving distance of Concord, NH. My writer friend Elaine Grant and I are modeling the group after the very popular Chicks Who Write group in Boston — but we have a bonus in that we allow dudes! […]

LinkedIn is a professional networking site that works on the “six degrees of separation” principle: Find someone you want to meet, and chances are you know someone who knows that person. You invite friends and colleagues to “link” to you, and then all their contacts are your contacts, too. LinkedIn is free unless you want […]

This post is inspired by Erik Sherman’s post on his blog about ignoring being ignored. You know, when you sweat all day over the perfect intro letter and clips package for a custom publisher who expressed interest in you, and weeks later the only thing in your inbox is decomposing spam.
A lot of writers will […]

We’re introducing a new feature to The Renegade Writer Blog today, called Sourcery Central.
We’ve all been in that position where an editor asks you to find a real person anecdote for your story. You think it’ll be a cinch to find a woman between the ages of 25-40 who experienced early menopause, but after a […]

Then head over to Lynne Scanlon’s a/k/a The Wicked Witch of Publishing blog and read — nay, study — what she writes about book publishing, networking, and why you should get off your ass more often. Her advice is dead-on. Why do I know this? Well, it worked for me. Case in point: it’s how […]

Diana and I are off to Canyon Ranch tomorrow to give workshops on writing for health magazines. Oh, the awful and terrible life of a freelance writer. We’ll be boo-hooing into our light apple tarts with whole-wheat shells about the suckiness of it all.
Something interesting happened to me this week:
After my husband and I first […]

Here’s something you’ll get a laugh out of: This morning, I started following up on e-mails I sent to editors in 2002.
Instead of doing any of my actual paying work yesterday, I was going through my “Follow Up” e-mail box, which is where I store copies of e-mailed queries and correspondences with editors I want […]

I want to encourage all freelance writers, aspiring and professional, to share with their fellow writers.
This week several people have helped me out. I was looking for the name of an editor at a certain magazine, and fellow writers responded offering up their editor’s name or offering to put me in contact with other people […]