Super Random Poll o' the Week

2001-2002 senior year

 1. How you remind me -- Nickelback
 2. $1.36 (gas)
 3. $2.50 (milk)
 4. Alot of super popular shows started in 2001-2002 -- American Idol, CSI, ER
 5.  9/11 
 6. The lord of the rings
 7. "A night under the stars"..I graduated early and didn't go to prom though

1.  Ebony and Ivory, I love Rock and Roll.
2.  $1.30  Gas
3.  $2.24  milk
4. 60 Minutes, Dallas, Dukes of Hazzard
5. 800,000 march in nuclear protest, 4 bombs explode on wall st.
6. ET
7. No idea...didn't go.

1982

LOL Lisa you and I have several of the same answer, 1982 here also.

1969

1. Everything by the Beatles
2. 35 cents
3. $1.16
4 .Laugh In
5. Moon landing
6.Midnight Cowboy
7. "Love is Blue"

That was fun, but boy do I feel OLD!!!

 Well at least you don't have two ingrates...er, daughters TELLING you every day that you are old. I'm not scheduled to have my mid-life crisis for another 10 years but they are trying to push me ahead of schedule.

I'm bored too.  I just finished a fascinating article on how to get bad smells out of tennis shoes.  Don't you love writing assignments?  And yes, people do pay me to write about things like how to get bad smells out of tennis shoes, what to do if you have mold growing in your bathroom, how to find out if you have bed bugs, what to do if your dog has diarrhea, um.... lots of fascinating stuff like that.

1. Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
2.Gas was 1.1
3. Milk was 2.78
4. Twin Peaks was on TV.
5. apparently it was not a big year for news
6. Ghost.
7.  I dunno.  I didn't go.

 A random within a random.

Generally, how do you get your freelancing work? I used to be with Associated Content. Then Yahoo bought it and then BF got busier so that sort of fell off. I'd like to get back into it (although it didn't pay much none of the assignments were that labor intensive so it was all good). 

I'm pitching out a few articles to national magazines. That's one good thing about my job. I've been published nationally so I'm pretty familiar with that pitch process!

Anyway, any lead is a good lead! Thanks in advance. 

Various ways.  Most of what I write currently is published online.  I do some writing for print publications, which almost always pay better but it takes a lot longer to get paid and it's harder to get those jobs.

I write for Yahoo Voices (used to be Associated Content).  I'm still getting used to the changes they've made there but I'm finding they are paying better up front now than they used to.  Still not great, though.

I recently discovered Textbroker.  The pay is low but they always have work available and the jobs are super easy.

I used to do a lot of work for Demand Studios, which pays pretty well.  Then for a long time, the well pretty much ran dry and there was almost no work there.  I recently applied and got approved to write for a special project for them with health and fitness articles, so I'm happy about that.  They are so much picker than Yahoo Voices, though, about how stuff must be formatted and what references you can and cannot use, etc.  It's a lot more work.

I've found jobs on freelancewriting.com and on craigslist.  I have one client I've written for for years now, who owns a bunch of websites.  I write what is essentially advertising copy for him.  You know, those ads that look like articles but they are really trying to sell you something?  I've sold articles to print publications I found listed in Writer's Market.

How do you get most of your work?

 I don't. That's the problem! 

I've been published in a few publications here in Baltimore and most of those came by way of contacts I had. I did one for a local free magazine called "Baltimore's Child" and a few others. Most of my published work is via my organization so I don't get paid anything extra for it. 

When I was a senior in high school:

1. Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
2. $1.08 (holy crap !!)
3. $2.30
4. Roseanne (loved that show)
5. Stealth bomber revealed
6. Rain Man
7. Geez I do not remember my prom theme, but I looked good - lol

Now that was FUN - I love Fun, thanks for that and bringing back some memories and making me feel so old - ha ha