How Do You Network Digitally? Okay, so you want to network digitally. How do you go about that? Mentioned Media Buzzfeed.Reader’s “These Women Are Only On Facebook For The Groups”
Category: Storytelling
You Want to Network Digitally If ‘networking’ sounds slimy to you, build a community. It’s worth it. Media Mentioned Elissa Bassist’s 12th Street interview Editorial Freelancers Association Muse and the Marketplace
Just Following Up This is the eponymous episode where you learn about the “Follow-Up” or the art of not letting your pitch be forgotten.
Rejections Aren’t Forever Don’t look at rejection as the end. Think of it as an opportunity to refine and try again. This episode also includes one of the best insults I’ve ever heard. Mentioned Media Julian Morgans’ ‘I Asked a Psychopath How to Stop Caring About Rejection‘ #MeToo at Work Starts as Early as an […]
How to Find the Right Publication and Editor You have a pitch written, but you’re not done yet. Make sure you’re tailoring your pitch to a specific publication and editor. Links Mentioned in This Episode https://wheretopitch.com/ What Romantic Comedies Get Wrong About Brain Damage DM/Tweet at me on Twitter Pitch Sent to VICE’s Tonic Subject […]
How to Pitch a Reported Piece It’s time to craft an enticing pitch for your story idea. Are you ready? Links from this Episode Slate’s pitching guide Tim Herrera the NY Times’ Smarter Living editor’s pitching guide Bustle’s pitching guide CoSchedule’s Headline Analyzer
For an Electronic Publishing Overview course required for Emerson College’s Master’s in Publishing and Writing degree, students were required to record their own episode of a podcast for a fictional show of their own creation. My process to the final product was…tumultuous. Here’s what happened and why I think I’ll stick to the written word […]
Elephant feeding and bathing floods my Instagram feed every time someone goes to Thailand. And I love elephants. But grad school has me poor and busy; a Thailand trip is just not going to happen. Which is why I was intrigued when my mom described to me elephant feeding at the Monterey Zoo. It just […]
We were somewhere on the edge of the Anza Borrego desert when the diuretics started to take hold. My friend Jean said something like, “We should pull over,” and I replied with something along the lines of, “Sounds good; I’m a pro.” We had a purpose for being so far east: Salvation Mountain. East of […]
I want to start this by saying: I love a good fairytale transformation. And by “transformation” I don’t mean a frog turning into a prince or vice versa — I mean retellings of old tales with a new lens or viewpoint as a way of transforming traditional thoughts about gender, power, and sexuality to make a […]