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Internet Writing

I Can Haz Book Deal?

September 21, 2009

You can’t really plan for your blog to earn millions of dollars, land you a book deal, or grant you offline fame. Any blogger with the intent of taking her online content offline is kind of missing the point. Many articles (try a Google search) yield results that promise tactics for scoring that six-figure book [...]

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New Media Generates New Genres

September 3, 2009

Since “new media” is a fairly broad and nebulous term, I would like to create a point of focus for this post. I am going to discuss: NEW GENRES OF WRITING (dun dun dun).
Some of my favorite blogs contain never-before-defined genres. A blog is a venue for writing, but the content within the blog can [...]

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Love Doesn’t Always Pay the Bills

August 27, 2009

On Monday, I spent some time exploring the idea of “lifecasting” and the ways that the young women who run NonSociety take advantage of it as a medium. Today, NonSociety contributor Meghan wrote a post about making money as a blogger.
Meghan wrote: “I’ve had it up to my ears trying to get some form of [...]

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Translating Personal to Universal Language

August 25, 2009

As an online media outlet, Too Shy to Stop competes with blogs and online newspapers/magazines. We don’t really fit into a genre, and we’re kind of tough to define. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel, but we do want to offer a unique product with content that readers can’t find anywhere else.
Personal essays are [...]

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Job Board for Journalists Who Work for Free

July 6, 2009

Good journalists/writers know that they’re good. Most good writers believe that writing is a vocation. They know what they are worth and what they should be paid. Traditionally, good writers worked for big media organizations like The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune because they were good enough to land jobs there, editors recognized [...]

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