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Toronto Freelance Survival seminar set for September 25
Freelancers in Toronto and surrounding areas take note: there’s a day-long seminar approaching that’s designed to help you make the most of your skills and talents. The Freelance Survival Series is scheduled for Wednesday September 25th from 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Lillian H. Smith Public Library in Toronto. The event, which is being organized by […]
The Born Freelancer on the Art of Collaboration
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. It certainly seems like a good idea to some freelancers. You get along so well, you seem so simpatico, you are such good friends – why […]
Time management for freelancers
My bookmarked list of “interesting links to follow later” has piled up higher and deeper than ever lately. There never seems to be enough time to read through them all. Ironically, half of them seem to be about time management for freelancers. I guess sometimes you have to spend time to save time, so I’ve […]
A room of your own: The Born Freelancer on the merits of out-of-home offices
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. The recent poss.ca article on the benefits of working at home, already recommended on this blog, is excellent. If you haven’t looked at […]
Taking stock: The Born Freelancer’s 2011 posts
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. A very happy and healthy New Years to you, my fellow freelancer. New Years is always a good time for stocktaking. Looking back […]
Evolve or die: Survival in the ever-changing freelance biz
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer will share personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. Reader “Spanky” commented on one of my previous posts, “What a sad state of affairs our business is in. The model is […]
Advice from Canadian journalists on crafting the “perfect pitch”
Besides being the kind that gets you a “yes” from an editor, what makes a pitch good? An original angle, a custom-tailored scope, timely, articulate, well-researched: all very important characteristics. But what can a writers do to make their queries “perfect”? On April 26 at The HiVE in Vancouver, The Tyee gathered together Gary Stephen […]
Incubating ideas: Where do you get your ideas and how do you organize them?
by Lesley Evans Ogden The start of a new year is an interesting time. It’s a period of looking both forward and back. For me, the dawn of 2014 marked a phase of furious pitching, which cast my mind towards wondering how other freelancers come up with story ideas. Where do their ideas come from? […]
Chris Brookes on life as an independent radio producer
Chris Brookes’ radio documentaries have been broadcast all over the world. From the U.S. to Europe to Australia, the work of this Newfoundland-based producer has caught the ear of international audiences and won multiple awards. In September, Brookes gave a presentation at the Canadian Media Guild’s Freelance Survival Seminar in Toronto. He described the […]
