To celebrate, and given that we are talking about words (did you see that lovely segue there?), I have decided on a somewhat unusual giveaway. I'm giving away myself. To whit, two one-hour mentor sessions, frequency to be decided by the winner.
So, what do you get?
Two sessions of 60 solid minutes each by phone or Skype (I promise I will know how to use it by the time it all kicks off...). We can talk about any aspect of writing/freelance writing/ publishing/blogging/whatever that you like that falls within my scope of experience.
My strengths are freelance writing for magazine, newspaper and internet, writing non-fiction books (including non-fiction book proposals), experience in the ins and outs of publishing, fiction writing (to the extent that I've completed three full manuscripts and have another two-thirds done, but not to the extent that I've actually sold a book as yet), short story writing (I dabbled in this and sold three stories to magazines), knowledge of writing associations and networks that might be helpful to you, access to lots of other writers who will answer any questions I give to them. And I blog. A lot, apparently.
I'm not strong in the area of writing children's books or YA fiction, but I've had a go at pretty much everything else.
I am happy to read the first three chapters of any work you may have in progress and give you feedback, but, due to time restrictions, I can't do a blow-by-blow appraisal of your entire manuscript.
What do you need to do?
Be a friend of the Fibro if you're not already (and feel free to 'like' me on Facebook if we're not connected there). Comment below, answering the following question: How can I help you? Tell me what you're doing, tell me which part of my brain you'd like to pick, what I can do for you.
Who's judging?
The lovely Valerie Khoo from the Sydney Writers' Centre will choose a winner from a shortlist that I select. Just to ensure fairness and friendliness. We're looking for... spark.
Other details
Competition closes Sunday 30 October, 2011 at 9pm (AEST). Winner will be announced on Tuesday 1 November, 2011, at the usual time the Fibro posts go up (around 10.30pm). Australian residents only, sorry. ( Just in case the whole Skype thing doesn't work out...)
Okay, I think that's it. Let me know if anything needs clarifying. Good luck!
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I am not entering, as lovely as it sounds I have no intention of ever writing more than a blog post.
ReplyDeleteBut, congrats on writing so many posts, it is not just the posts, that's a lot of comments to moderate, images to find, and links to stumble!
I'd love your opinion on a book I've written called "Mexican kimono". I know it needs improvement, but it's fun, fast paced and a little zany. At a stretch it's a mix between Holden Caulfield and Kathy Lette type humour. I have spent too much time looking at it, that I can't see straight! I would do a little happy dance down the hallway if you picked me!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 500 posts! And good luck everyone!
Just wanted to congratulate you on 500 posts! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks @Tenille and @Clairey - and @RebeccaR, you get bonus points for being the first brave soul to enter! Your book sounds heaps of fun!
ReplyDeleteI have this book manuscript in my head. I've always kept it under lock and key and unfortunately I lost the key in 1996... You could maybe help me find it???
ReplyDeleteOr not. But congrats on 500 wonderful posts (or 499 - now that yo mention it, that bacon post at number 5 was a bit of a shocker!) x
Oh wow this is an amazing opportunity! I'd love to pick your brain on pitching for mags, writing fiction books, or even non fiction. I am halfway through a manuscript that's been left because I've been busy with the children's book being launched soon. I so wanna pick your brain!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a fantastic achievement...you opened my eyes to the wonderful world of blogging and introduced me to many wonderful other bloggers.
ReplyDeleteI'm not entering either, unless you're offering advice on writing press releases, although I'd love the opportunity for a Skype natter. But I do have to say Congratulations and a massive thank you. For the late night giggles, the inadvertant parenting tips, loads of inspiration and especially for introducing this whole crazy world of blogging to me. Yes, I blame you - and it's made more of a difference to our lives than you will ever know. Thx.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
ReplyDeleteHere's to many hundred more.
:-)
I'm not entering, just congratulating you on 500 posts. That's a lot of words!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the big 500 Allison. I've enjoyed a great many of those posts and have always loved every one I've read, you're a beautiful writer. To be honest, I feel a bit too amateur for you to pick me, though of course I would be stoked if you did.
ReplyDeleteI would be SO interested in your advice and experiences with freelance writing for magazine/newspaper etc... It would be a dream come true if I were to be able direct my writing down this path one day. I have most definitely wondered just where I would even start and who I could speak to about such opportunities though. What a fabulous giveaway :o) xo
I would love love love this! First you'd have to tell me how to put Skype on my computer, then after that perhaps just more confidence in writing. You have already helped me on my blog! And I am so grateful for that, I would love to hear more. I love your writing and I just think I'm missing something in mine. I get A's on every paper I turn in at University, but somehow my writing is not translating to blog readers or articles.
ReplyDeletePick me! Pick me!
That's fantastic! Congrats on a huge milestone.
ReplyDeleteYou could help me with pretty much anything -- really, it's taking your pick on whatever you want to discuss. I'll sip my coffee quietly, I promise.
Many congratulations, that's a lot of words indeed. Now then, I'd love a natter as, like you, my last bairn(s) will go to school next year.
ReplyDeleteA whole world of opportunity opens up (but only between 9am an 3pm.)
How shall I combine mothering and writing/work? You've literally written the book on this! And where does blogging fit in?
Yours in need of assistance, Seana xx
Congratulations on 500 posts. That is MASSIVE. And what a great prize! I've been privy to your fairy blogmothering skills before, and it was well worth it. The winner will be very lucky to have you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Al and here's to many, many more. xx
ReplyDeleteAs for the giveaway, wow! This is the greatest gift you could give. Me? I have so many questions I don't know where to start.
You probably don't want me to win as my questions may or may not include: What is the meaning of a writers' life? and Did I put the apostrophe in the correct place just then?
Anyhow I will start compiling my list of questions, but may possibly even need help with writing them.
Love, pained writer, Jodi.
Al, just wanted to pop in and say congrats on 500 - an accomplishment! xx
ReplyDeleteFirstly the important bit: CONGRATULATIONS!
ReplyDeleteYou think you talk a lot... I am posting number 585 today. Lol.
On to the next bit. I need a mentor. My mojo has run away since I lost Mum, and I cannot seem to stick to and produce anything of merit. I have a book in my head, and on little bits and pieces of paper everywhere.
This is a summation:
This is the story of a boy. It is not a story about a dog inspiring a miracle, or a horse curing issues. It is not a story of crystals, diet, or heavy metal purging. It is the story of a little boy with great heart, and a young man with a future. It is a story of faith and hope, but mainly of hard work and tantrums, tears and terrifying fears. It is the story of L.
(Didn't want to put Boy 1's full name in the comment here, though I think it will be known shortly with his own book).
I want to call myself a writer but have trouble with it as I have no formal quals in writing and have only had a few articles published (for free!) and write a column for a regional mag (for free!) and blog (for free!). Can I only call myself a writer when it starts to pay the bills?
ReplyDeleteI want to pick your brain on freelance writing and pitching story ideas to editors. Am meeting a publisher on Tuesday and in panic mode.
And maybe I CAN call myself a writer because I've just drafted, deleted, drafted, edited, re-edited, deleted, rewrote this comment and have worked myself up into a state of panic stricken anxiety.
;-)
Congratulations on 500 posts. I'd love a second opinion on a novel I'm writing. I'm kind of stuck at the moment.
ReplyDeleteOh man, I'm so inspired by your blog and your whole approach! I am a dozen ideas in my head for blogs, a writing-based business and all sorts of other things, but don't know how to start. Of course, I could just start. But then I think, shouldn't I be trying to earn some real dollars up front to pay the family grocery bill? How do I make it work? Can I? Would absolutely love some advice and encouragement just to start me off.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 500 posts!
ReplyDeleteI would absolutely pick your brain on networking! I've been writing for a few years. I've written a couple of articles (paid), and also had published a couple of poems and short stories. I've been blogging for many years, but I'm absolutely clueless about networking in the writing community. I really want to become involved, I just don't know how - help me, please!
Congratulations on 500 posts.
ReplyDeleteI have dreamed of being a published author since I was in high school. I have written a couple of kids books and am writing a couple of novels as well as a short story anthology. I would love help with any of these projects, though my kids works are the ones that I would love to get off the ground first.
Unfortunately, I can't enter since I don't live in Australia :( but I did want to congratulate you on your 500th post. That is quite an accomplishment. I always enjoy your posts.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the fab fibro writer! And yep, count me in for freelance-writer advice. Firstly, I would love your blogger nouse to shine a little on our BIG house! Secondly, I would love the connections you can potentially offer re freelance publication (in my spare time lol) of a story called THREE that is various stages of undress re the unreasonable and overwhelming desire for a (third child). Thirdly, my research work is centred on the mid career artist/mother-artist so would just love a bit of a chat re potential publication and re-write of some more academic based papers into more popular platforms. 2hours? No problemo she says ;)
ReplyDeleteMy life seems to mirror my writing...alot going on but a creeping dread that its not really going in the right direction some days
ReplyDeleteI'd just like a chance to talk to someone (like you) who has a little bit of time to hear what I have to say and to just give me a prod in a direction that might lead somewhere (and some honesty about the good and the not so good bits)
Congrats
Oh my. Exactly the sort of opportunity I need. How generous of you to give that time constructively! Ok... I think you're already aware of what I'm doing, but for the purpose of the entry:
ReplyDeleteI have completed (YES!) a memoir that chronicles my husband's and my conception journey, culminating in the safe arrival of our second daughter. While the book, of course, deals with the loss and grief of losing our firstborn daughter, by no means is this the crux of the focus. I cover the process of our particular path through the genetic testing maze and IVF procedures, as well as a growing awareness of the spiritual aspect of waiting for our child to come along. One chapter of this manuscript has already been chosen for inclusion in an anthology of new authors' works - Tiny Acorns (Dotterel Press, UK, 2010) - and I am humbled by the continued pressing of my friends, acquaintances and blog readers who compel me to keep finding a way to get this thing published and "out there because it needs to be said."
How you can help me: I need a kick-ass submission, basically. I need water-tight cover letter, I need direction on choosing an agent. The first half has been gone over by a professional editor already and I have recently honed it by removing 10k words in the process of neating it up. I know it needs more work to be ship-shape, but I think I am far closer than I fear I am. So.... help?? Obe Wan.. Altait..Kinobe?
And thank you profusely just for the opportunity to enter such a rockin' comp!
Hey Alison..first things first!! Congratulations!!!!!!:) lovely to hear that u are adept at soo many things!! Kudos to u and ur spirit!!:)
ReplyDeleteand great to be back at the Fibro:) my college has been very hectic..thats why couldnt cum more often..well..Alison..I would surely love you to help me. Have been writing poetry since some 8 years, however past two years shall be the best one, coz my poetry seemed to have touched new heights. I have been planning to get a book published, but am completely clueless how to start, and dunno abt who would take the initiative to edit it. to get a book published to an art that is deeply close to my heart is something I would cherish for life:)thnk u for such a cool idea of a giveaway....:) Best wishes! Aakriti
Wow, Allison, congratulations! I think I tweeted awhile back about how astonishing I find it that you can publish new posts every day while keeping the quality at a high level.
ReplyDeleteWe have funny timing. I just posted that I'm celebrating a one-year blog anniversary, but my giveaway is a bit less original; it's a book of one's choice on creativity. I think I'm only at about 170 or so posts. I have a ways to go to catch up!
Patrick
Well done, great prize and 500 posts
ReplyDeleteTrying to start a freelance career in your 30s is like trying to climb a cliff face. I’d love your guidance Allison in identifying target publications and drafting pitches appropriate to their markets. If you could show me how to find good footholds, I’d soon learn how to climb that cliff on my own. Or fall to a messy end, whatever comes first.
ReplyDeleteI’ve had one story accepted for publication and two more are under consideration.
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ReplyDeleteHi Allison,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 500 posts! Such a great achievement. : )
I've been plugging away at writing in various forms for a while and have even taken 2011 off my regular 9-5 job to freelance full-time. Before I took the plunge, I started my blog (Becks and the City), took a couple of writing courses and read every book imaginable on how to write query letters and on freelancing as a business. All this has definitely helped.
I've now written for a couple of reasonably well-known magazines (Women's Health and Fitness and Cosmo Bride), have a somewhat-established blog, have started writing a mini e-zine and have an almost-completed non-fiction book proposal buried in a desk drawer.
I now need guidance on how to establish myself as a ridgey-didge writer who earns honest-to-goodness money from it. Specifically, I'd love your help on:
* expanding my feature writing to other magazines and newspapers
* how I can start earning money from my blog (or should I even try to?)
* fathoming the whole new-fangled e-book thing
* finally finishing my non-fiction book proposal (on, strangely enough, entering competitions!)
Great prize, Allison. Would love to win. Good luck everyone. : )
xx
Beck Douglas
Congratulations on 500 posts! I would like to pick your brain on many, many thing, Allison and I know that you said Writing for Children was not one of your strengths but after consideration I felt this was the area I would currently most like guidance in. Thanks for an exciting opportunity. At any rate, this giveaway has helped me to decide which writing area is most important to me. Here goes:
ReplyDeleteI have a Degree in Creative Writing and am currently writing a children's story, aimed at the three - five age group. I have the backbone of the story and the characters but the story needs fattening up. I'm ready to nurture a skinny newborn to chunky toddler so I 'd love your help in identifying strengths and weaknesses in the story. Of course, I'd also like to get your advice on how to fix the weaknesses. I'd want to know how you think the story hangs together.
Congratulations Allison and thanks so much for offering such a wonderful prize!
ReplyDeleteI came across your blog through a post you put on SWC and since then have absolutely devoured all your posts about freelance writing. You certainly know what you're talking about and I would love to win this competition and pick your brain about freelance writing for magazines.
I've had a lifelong passion for magazines but never thought of writing as a 'real' job so I went on with life and got a 'real' job. However, writing was something I couldn't not do (excuse the grammar).
After getting married my husband and I travelled for nine months and one of my favourite memories was heading back to the youth hostel each afternoon, curling up with my notepad and pen and let all my thoughts out.
After having my first child those words kept pouring out and I felt irritated if I couldn't write.
Finally I put two and two together:I loved magazines, and writing, and maybe there was a way I could write for magazines? I enrolled in the online SWC course for magazine writing and learned so much. Since then, I have been pitching and writing with some success.
However, I would love your help with getting to that next stage. Specifically, things like: should I get an email signature? Should I start a blog or a site where editors can see my previously published pieces? (Oh, and if so, how exactly do you do this?)
I would also love help with the whole pitching process as I still feel so unsure when I send out a pitch (how much info should I include?; when should I follow up my pitches etc).
I don't know any freelance writers (apart from the lovely people I have 'met' online through SWC - thank god for SWC!!! - but like me it feels like we're all trying to find our feet) and it would be such a thrilling opportunity to be able to ask you my questions and learn even more about the whole freelancing world.
Congratulations on the 500. Have been a long time silent reader, and apart from your give away, truly want to thank you for your generosity. Your ideas and thoughts are gifts. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteMy misspent youth involved an embarrassing amount of similarities to scenes in Puberty Blues and the shame of following boys around Rottnest Island with the Bundy bottles clanking in the bike basket. If wishes were fishes… but I was of the time and age that even a pale skinned raised Methodist could gain peer credibility by bleaching hair in lemon juice and finding the right spot in the reef to keep the guys beer cold. Yet I agree with you. Regrets are more about what I have not done. As Nikki Gemmell has been speaking of lately, I now find myself at that age, that while I am now invisible to the boys, I am gagging to use my voice.
After a wonderful career in overseas aid development, a good nod to the Methodist Mission upbringing, and having worked throughout Africa, Asia and the Pacific – I then lived and breathed the life of my two children for the next ten years. So here I find myself. More than a decade out of the paid workforce and trying to fight the waves of panic. Too late. Too old. What now. Yet as in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass “… sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. I want to believe it is possible.
I would love to write articles. I write in my head while I’m cutting lunches and waiting for soccer practice to finish. My interests lie in all sorts of social inquiry and my contacts in the development and social justice world still inform my ideas. I am passionate about human rights, family and society and people in general.
My need for guidance is in the area of pragmatics. Do you record an interview? Marketing and the pitch? Photographs? Grammar- probably evident by now, however I have enrolled in a course to hopefully deal with that one. I know nothing about how the process works in free-lance writing. To chat with you would mean the world to me.
Stilling the voices in my head “Will you won’t you will you won’t you will you join the dance’ Lewis Carroll. I don’t want to regret not giving this a go. Time to dance.
Congrats again, as you know I'm very impressed at the speed at which you reached 500! And without writing rubbish! And I think I also want to enter your giveaway. I think.
ReplyDeleteOK. Here goes. The main reason I would like to talk to you is because I'm scared to. Why would a clever and experienced writer talk to me? Sure, I can blog the heck out of travel and promo the hell out of your organisation on Facebook but I'm still not a *real* writer because I still haven't published a physical book that my father could buy at a bookshop. (This, apparently, is the definition). I have two novel manuscripts in my metaphorical bottom drawer. I have the plans for a third. I have a small boy, which translates to a lot less writing time than I used to have. (Oh! If only I could have my 20s and early 30s over again! How efficient would I be now!).
So what do I do? Are the two novels worth working on again (ex-pat in Japan becomes trophy foreigner friend of a freaky female dentist; ex-pat in Slovakia does the whole coming of age thing along with her Korean student friend and her Slovak child of the revolution friend). Should I go for the third one? (Traveler escapes her childless-but-not-by-choice marriage for a week of angst and frivolity on a Trans-Siberian train). Or dig out my various ideas for non-fiction travel books? Perhaps I should simply stick to blogging? Or (as one of my former bosses suggested) go and get a real job?
If you can even vaguely answer just one of these questions, Allison, then you would save my waistline from multiple bars of chocolate.
Hello again. This is my previous comment verbatim - apart from the spaces. It was bugging the heck out of me that the paragraphs disappeared on the first. Bit easier on the eye for you. Cheers Ros.
ReplyDelete"Congratulations on the 500. Have been a long time silent reader, and apart from your give away, truly want to thank you for your generosity. Your ideas and thoughts are gifts. Thank you.
My misspent youth involved an embarrassing amount of similarities to scenes in Puberty Blues and the shame of following boys around Rottnest Island with the Bundy bottles clanking in the bike basket. If wishes were fishes… but I was of the time and age that even a pale skinned raised Methodist could gain peer credibility by bleaching hair in lemon juice and finding the right spot in the reef to keep the guys beer cold. Yet I agree with you. Regrets are more about what I have not done. As Nikki Gemmell has been speaking of lately, I now find myself at that age, that while I am now invisible to the boys, I am gagging to use my voice.
After a wonderful career in overseas aid development, a good nod to the Methodist Mission upbringing, and having worked throughout Africa, Asia and the Pacific – I then lived and breathed the life of my two children for the next ten years. So here I find myself. More than a decade out of the paid workforce and trying to fight the waves of panic. Too late. Too old. What now. Yet as in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass “… sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”. I want to believe it is possible.
I would love to write articles. I write in my head while I’m cutting lunches and waiting for soccer practice to finish. My interests lie in all sorts of social inquiry and my contacts in the development and social justice world still inform my ideas. I am passionate about human rights, family and society and people in general.
My need for guidance is in the area of pragmatics. Do you record an interview? Marketing and the pitch? Photographs? Grammar- probably evident by now, however I have enrolled in a course to hopefully deal with that one. I know nothing about how the process works in free-lance writing. To chat with you would mean the world to me.
Stilling the voices in my head 'Will you won’t you will you won’t you will you join the dance’ Lewis Carroll. I don’t want to regret not giving this a go. Time to dance."
Big congratulations! That's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteAnd what a fabulous prize for someone. I think there are people entered here who would probably gain more than I would (I don't have a manscript idea as yet... working on it!!!), so I won't enter. But will certainly spread the word. xx
Hi Allison
ReplyDeleteDefinitely put me down as a contender for the mentoring prize. It would be wonderful to be given such an great opportunity.
I would like to pick your brain on breaking into the magazine and newspaper markets. I would love to dissect a pitch with you and discuss how I can improve in that area. Despite my best efforts, I think my pitches are still missing something. I would also appreciate your advice on how to find good paying online freelance work.
Some blogging advice certainly wouldn't go astray either. Congratulations on the 500 posts, you have done an amazing job!
Cheers
Thea
Hi Allison,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on reaching 500 posts, that's fantastic. I've been following your blog for a few months now (DA recommended it as a great blog and a friendly community to join) and waiting for the perfect post to comment on. I wish I had before now! But I will have to make do with an intro-slash-pitch.
I've had a floaty career to date. I started in sales (hated it), jumped to marketing (much better), came to specialise in comms (better again) and then put it all on hold to become mum (undoubtedly the best career move yet). I've started copywriting and proofreading from home; it's enjoyable enough, and gives me 'grown-up' things to think about, but with plans to stay at home until Little Miss 1 becomes a Little Miss Big Sister one day (to who knows how many siblings?), I'd like to write about things I know and love.
What a wonderful prize you're offering! I'd love the opportunity to pick your brain about writing, selecting appropriate publications, pitching to them, nurturing your blog while doing it, and being a mum to boot.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter, and good luck to all. I hope that both you and the winner enjoy the chat!
Emily
There was once a young lady named Kelly
ReplyDeleteWho had just finished a course run by Valerie
It was with such great delight
That she found out one night
She could win a chat with her blog-crush (that's Alli)!
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Ah ... I have no idea how Valerie is going to choose from all these wonderful entries ... but I would love to write features for magazines and would LOVE two hours to pick Alli's brain on this topic.
Congrats on 500 posts Alli - I love your blog (have to actually refrain from commenting sometimes so that you don't think I am a stalker!) and have learned so much from you already in a relatively short time. Here's to the next 500!
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ReplyDelete“We’re looking for Spark.”
ReplyDelete“Really? Again?”
“Yeah. We last saw him walking along the fence”.
“In which direction?”
“Um, towards your house.”
“Okay kids. Let me just finish writing this article, then we’ll go look for Sparky together”.
Hi Allison,
I'd love to talk to you about developing my feature writing for magazines career. I'm about to move interstate with my husband, and this is the perfect opportunity to try and go full time with my writing. I've completed the SWC feature writing course, and I've had one article published in Good Reading Magazine and another about to be published in a local magazine.
I'd love (!!!!) to discuss the business of freelancing and talk to you about staying passionate about a topic weeks after pitching the original idea.
Thank you for this great competition and congrats with your 500th post!
You're an inspiration.
Regards, Candice
First - congrats on 500 posts!
ReplyDeleteSecond - I am such a new liker I only just caught this, but for you I finally did the google friend follow thingy (might be the only time LOL)
Ok I love this giveaway as I really need to talk to someone who knows the world of freelance and publishing.
I want to write a book for mothers sharing my philosophy of "Find your simple" - talking about how to follow our own path, let go of perfectionism, let go of comparisons, lower our expectations and just be true to ourselves. So many of us women today are struggling to find joy in life because we are so busy living someone else's life. The life society tells us we should want, the life our parents expect us to have, the one that keeps up with the Joneses and so on.
My goodness there are some very worthy contenders here! And as someone who has once had the pleasure of picking your blogging and freelancing brain early this year when I'd completed my SWC Feature Writing Course, I know you know your stuff.
ReplyDeleteMy man issue is being at a cross roads in the writing arena. I faear I'm not so much a Feature Writer but a wannabe novelist but unsure how to make that next step. In my heart its always been a creative bent I've leaned towards but in the interest of getting by in this seemingly unemployable small town, I felt Feature Writing may just allow me a look in to earn some extra funds. Turns out its a whole hell of a lot harder tan I ever imagined and I am not sure where I am going wrong.
So I'd be honoured if you chose me to help me re-establish a Freelancing Spark and grant me a blessing to move my energies into more suitable writing arenas.
But above all, congratulations on the mammoth 500 milestone - have always enjoyed popping into the Fibro for a read and look forward to many more down the track!
Congratulations Allison, it's a great milestone and what an awesome offer! I'd love to chew the fat with how I can take the leap into the unknown, and actually get the nerve to not only pitch my work but pitch myself and grow some balls to enable me to do that. I'm such a woose bag hiding behind my blog, too terrified to put myself out there. I'd just love the opportunity to find some tools to help me jump off the edge, because I'm finding passion and a love of words just aint enough! I blog, I'm trying to do some freelance work and am on a personal crusade to get amongst it and be the best I can be. Thanks for the opportunity and looking forward to the next 500!
ReplyDeleteThis is such good timing!
ReplyDeleteFirst, congratulations. 500 posts - a fantastic testament to your consistency.
Why is it good timing?
I am about to start writing for NaNoWriMo and my central protagonist is a features writer.
How could you help me?
I would like to pick your brain for research. I would like my character to have depth. I think a conversation with you about your work would provide me with much needed background for my character. Especially about the trials and tribulations - the more drama the better actually for this piece of work.
Thanks for the chance to talk to you.
Cheers,
Louise
Five hundred - whooo hooo to yoooo!
ReplyDeleteI would love to tap into your expertise as I've been in business almost ten years, and my blogging would benefit from a fresh eye.
Since I was a teenager I wanted to be a writer - well, I've written the best seller but blogging is still somewhat of a mystery :-) Would seriously appreciate your advice!
Here's to another 500!
Lissanne
PS thanks for the opportunity to win such a prize - ace!