My Substack publication is doing great – Medium, not so much
Last month, I wrote that I was launching a new publication on both Medium and Substack. On Medium, it would just be a place to…
Tag: freelance writing
Launching a new Substack and Medium Publication – Intriguing Times
As the title suggests, I’m launching a new Substack and Medium publication called Intriguing Times. It is all tremendously exciting. I don’t think many people…
Rewriting top Medium articles for a new Substack newsletter
My science fiction and fantasy news Substack is only a couple of weeks old and is building slowly. (You can check out the Cosmic Scroll…
I’m shifting my focus to fiction on a shiny new iPad Pro M4
Thanks to my new 13-inch iPad Pro M4, I am now poor but happy and about to embark on a fiction writing frenzy. I already…
From Time to Value: I’m Stopping Writing for Per Hour or Per Word Pay
I have been paid per word or per hour for about four years now. In previous bouts of freelance writing, dating back decades, it was…
New iPad Pro vs Apple Vision Pro – what is better for writers?
I’ve desperately wanted a new iPad Pro 12.9 inch for a while now. I have an iPad Pro 11-inch from a few years ago, and…
Some things people get wrong when starting writing
There are a lot of things I could advise about writing, but books like Stephen King’s On Writing, or Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird do…
From Fiverr to science fiction – I’m quitting the gig economy and going full nerd
I think I am pretty much done with Fiverr and am going all science fiction. Fiverr has been good to me, although it is getting…
Using AI for writing is a mistake. At least for now.
As someone who writes and edits for a living, I get asked a lot about AI for writing purposes and whether it spells imminent doom…
Top writing software tools to make your life easier
Writing software has been around since the end of the 1970s. I’ve been around since the 1970s, and I feel pretty old. Word 1.0 came…