Electrolicious

This weekend I’ve been chewing over issues of literature and the literary life as compared to the work and life of commercial writer. I’ve paid my bills for a decade as a writer, I didn’t do that by sniffing at potential clients — I’ve sacrificed most of my snobbery when it comes to the written […]

I recently interviewed a transgendered exec who’s been in the news a lot lately. She was awesome.

This video was shot last year, but it captures what I’ve been doing non-stop for the last two days related to this site:

I think my two favorite profilees this week were one guy who’s a speedcuber (he can solve a Rubik’s cube in 40 seconds) and another guy who makes fiddles in his spare time.

Ariel Meadow Stallings, blogger at Microsoft

I’m on about 42 minutes into the show

Microsoft Gives PC Guy a Makeover

This post is essentially a white paper about my Offbeat side project, which includes my book Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides and offbeatbride.com. It’s quite long and may only be interesting to marketers, authors, business bloggers, social media obsessives, etc. […]

From a comment to my recent post: Don’t [marketing] events like this kill off some small part of your soul? Does every part of our lives need to be sliced up and laid on a platter as a feast for marketers?
I stick my finger into marketing — it smells of nothing.
(with apologies to Kierkegaard)
This is […]

Is the arc of your life somewhat planned or is it as random as it appears. By this I mean, so many moves and job changes etc. Conversely, what are the unchanging elements that mean the most to you?
This is an awesome question. It’s odd to think of my life as seeming random because I […]

How do you tell which freelance writing postings are legit, and which aren’t? What kind of important probing questions to ask potential clients to make sure that your gig is a) not a scam and b) well-defined with clear boundaries.
First, allow me to be honest here: I’ve never been much of a full-time freelancer. I’m […]