Thursday started working as a freelance writer during her undergraduate studies at the University of Tulsa (B.A, Communications). She's continued writing while starting an MA at the University of Baltimore, trying to make it through graduate school without picking up any more student loans.
Thursday started blogging as a way to talk about the business side of freelancing — when she started writing for a living, she never thought she'd need to worry about invoices and taxes as much as query letters and word counts.
Thursday Bram's blog is ThursdayBram.com.
Youthfulness is not generally seen as an asset to a freelance writer. Clients tend to assume you’ll be less professional and less knowledgeable. The same goes for writers with only a clip or two under their belts.
The general idea is that an in-person interview is more adaptive: you can change the questions and don’t have to do multiple follow ups if an interview subject’s answer sparks a new idea. Furthermore, a good writer seems to be able to pull answers out of a subject when talking to them that the writer might not get in an email […]
Blogs. Flickr. Half a dozen other websites that are free to join, allow you to post your writing (and photographs and other work) and links back to your website. Are they worth it for those of us who make a living off our creativity? […]
We may be talking about articles you’ve submitted to magazines, poems, novels or even screenplays. But no matter the form your writing has taken, it’s worth considering what will happen to it in the future […]
Just like most writers, I often struggle to put a price on my words. I try to set prices that I feel are fair and that can keep me in the style I’ve become accustomed to — that is to say, able to eat. So, when a freelance client asks me for a discount, I have […]
One of the drawbacks of working at home is that, inevitably, you don’t have as many opportunities to interact with people. You run a risk that you’ll wind up talking to the cats or the walls, and, well, that’s not good for business.
But that’s where the idea of co-working comes in. Basically, it’s the idea […]
I’ve been putting together an article celebrating an anniversary for a now defunct comic strip — don’t worry, you’ve heard of it. But I made the mistake of assuming that the business people still managing that particular comic strip would like, you know, a little publicity and would be willing to let me use a […]
I finished reading Never Eat Alone a few weeks ago. I haven’t reviewed it until now because I’ve been trying to implement some of the suggestions made in the book. My immediate response to Keith Ferrazzi’s book was complete enthusiasm. I do think this is a book that every writer needs to read — we seem […]
Wikis can be just about anything: organizational websites for events, encyclopedias, or project management tools. They’re amazingly easy to edit — no knowledge of HTML required. And you can set wikis up for free without having to worry about domains or hosting. All of these characteristics make wikis useful for writers. I think, for instance, […]
During the summer before my senior year in high school, I held what I think may have been the oddest job in existence: I dressed up as a tomato. I was handing out flyers throughout downtown Colorado Springs, and clad in a large red vinyl ball stuffed with newspapers I wandered through the park, the courthouse […]
