47 Sunday Link Love Articles
April 6, 2008
Here is this week’s link love, the PoeWar equivalent of the Sunday Paper…
- How To Remain Productive When You Feel Like Giving Up
- Can you break into National Publications?
- A Strategy for Building Niche Focused Blog Networks
- A Writer’s View of Freelance Bidding Sites
- Does Description Have a Place in Fiction?
- Freelance Catalog Copywriting
- Freelance Writing - Top Blog Jobs And How To Get Them
- Freelance Writing some Pros and Cons
- Growing Your Freelance Business with Criticism
- How Intention Adds Fuel To The Writing Fire
- How Many Topics Should a Blog Cover?
- How to Accomplish Your Dreams
- How to Create a Rock-Solid Tagline That Truly Works
- How to Handle Clients Who Leave Projects “Hanging in the Wind”
- How You Can Gain Clients By Getting Off the Web
- Keeping a Writers’ Notebook
- Negative reviews
- New HarperCollins Imprint Won’t Pay Author Royalties
- On Agents and Advances
- One-sided dialogue
- Salvation through Deposits: Why You Should Always Collect Upfront
- Scamazon Part 3 - Ingram and Lightning Source’s reply
- Should You Share Your Freelance Writing Income?
- Starting A Copywriting Business
- Succeeding in the Business of Freelance Writing
- Suspense: Is this the missing ingredient in your ezines?
- The Art of Blogging: Business or Pleasure?
- The Art of Freelance Fee Negotiations
- The Incredible Power of Contentment
- The Money’s in the Message
- Tips for Setting Writing Goals - A Stack of Twenty
- What is “Legitimate” Writing?
- What makes a great book a great book?
- What’s the Best Thing You’ve Done to Grow Your Career?
- When Good Clients Ask for Bad Stuff (or, Why I’m at the Poop Conference)
- Why Internet Writing is Better than Print Writing
- Why Real Writers Don’t Write on the Internet
- Would You Use a Job Auction Site to Find Work?
- Writers Who Matter: Octavia Butler, Sci-Fi Rebel
- Your Earning Potential as a Freelance Writer
- 10 Tips for Aspiring Freelance Copywriters
- 18 Five-Minute Decluttering Tips to Start Conquering Your Mess
- 2 Ways to Get Intimate with Blog Readers
- 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider
- 3 Ways to Appeal to Readers & Skimmers
- 5 Steps to Making the Switch from Side Gig to Full Time Professional
- 7 Tips To Bag Your Dream Writing Gig
Triple linkage! Goodness, John, I’m going to start thinking you like me.
Thanks for the links, and for a Sunday column that is always a destination.
Hi John,
I have a question that may be totally off topic as of late, but wanted to find some answers from you and other veteran writers.
Recently, during a writers workshop, I received criticism and editing on a humorous personal essay from others, as well as the instructors who are members of the local writers guild and are all published authors. After exhausting a number revisions over the six week period, I submitted the essay to a new, small, local, free publication.
I was not paid for the essay, nor gave away or sold any rights to it. It was
changed in several ways without my knowledge which also changed the meaning
and voice of what was written. Several sentences were changed and words
added that were not mine. The essay was also printed with some grammatical
and punctuation errors.
I understand that works are going to be edited, and it is exciting that it is published-somewhat. So many words were added that at places its hard to see as “mine.” This is my first published clip, and I suppose it was a bit of a rude awakening.
After all the work on this essay, I would still like to be able to submit it to another (paying) publication or contest. The problem is, many places only want unpublished works. Can I count the original ly submitted essay as unpublished? It feels a little like cheating, and I don’t want to be dishonest, but I wasn’t sure what the rules were in the writing/publication world on this. I have read about retooling and resubmitting works, but not sure if this counts as that.
Thanks to any advice or thoughts on this anyone can offer.
Thanks so much!
Rhonda
Hi Rhonda,
Technically, your piece has been published and you would want to disclose that to a future publication. However, if you were to make enough changes that you considered the piece to be an entirely different work on the same subject, that would eliminate the problem. As for how many changes you would need to make, that would be up to your discretion. Does anyone else have advice for Rhonda?