The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks Part Two Kristine Kathryn Rusch Part Two, you ask? Part Two? Didn’t we discuss giving up on ourselves last week? What’s this “Risks Part Two”? Well, “Risks Part One” was so long ago you’ve probably forgotten it. Back in March, I got inspired by events and wrote a bit about […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Expectations Kristine Kathryn Rusch A short time ago, a young writer who did not know my history in the science fiction field mentioned in e-mail how much he hated certain editors. He felt those editors had mislead him, and were, therefore, unethical people. Since those editors […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Online Networking 4 (Networking Part Ten) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Unless I missed a major part of the topic, this is the final networking post. I’m sure those of you who are excellent networkers are relieved. I, for one, learned a lot, and I thought I was […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Online Networking (Networking Part Seven) Kristine Kathryn Rusch When Carolyn Nicita asked me to discuss networking way back in February, she reminded me that I had missed a major topic in the Freelancer’s Guide. I also knew that the networking section would have a lot of […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Groups Continued (Networking Part Four) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I am an inveterate group builder. I can’t help myself. (My dictionary, consulted because I can’t spell inveterate to save my life [you should have seen my first attempt], tells me that inveterate means fixed in habit and […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Groups (Networking Part Three) Kristine Kathryn Rusch After last week’s brief digression on risk–which is a topic I will return to, I promise–I’m back to networking. And this week’s topic? Groups. Ah, groups. This is the topic that I was surprised I missed, and yet when […]
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Risks (Part One) Kristine Kathryn Rusch I know, I know. I had a plan and I’m not sticking to it. This is why I have become more and more unemployable as the years go by. I can’t even stick to my own plans, let alone plans someone else imposes on me. […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Continuing Education (Networking Part Two) Kristine Kathryn Rusch It’s interesting for me to write the Guide as I have. In two more posts, I will have been writing this for a year. However, I haven’t spent the entire year on it. I’ve written two novels while […]
Continue ReadingThe Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Goals and Dreams Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, I discussed the two kinds of business plans—the kind you draw up for a financial reason (such as trying to get a loan or to lure investors), and the kind you draw up for yourself. If you haven’t read this post, I suggest […]
Continue ReadingArtwork donated by Pati Nagle. The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Business Plan Kristine Kathryn Rusch In some ways, this is an ironic post, because I have reached a point in my life where I’ve realized that most plans don’t work. What I envisioned for myself as an 18-year-old wannabe writer has not happened. What has happened […]
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