How Experience Pays Off

Experience pays off. Experience is why some freelance writers command higher rates than others. It also helps us make things happen. Last week I saw a flurry of social media posts about a surprise prequel episode of The Bear dropping on FX on Hulu. Then I learned the episode, “Gary,” was co-written by co-stars Jon Bernthal … Read more

Concision Counts

Thanks to readers’ ever-shrinking attention spans and appetite for consuming nuggets of information, concision counts more than ever before.   Writing 350- to 500-word articles for Emmy taught me to quickly convey the essence of a person or subject, but writing 50- to 100-word bios for Cablefax and Variety proved a crash course in concision. Writing tight is … Read more