Author Archives: kimomorgan
Selling for Less
One of my pet peeves lately is how there are so many writing sites that only pay writers a song. I’m talking about social sites and writing sites that hire writers by the hundreds, paying anywhere from $5 to $30 … Continue reading
When Hiring Execs Act Like Amateurs
In my never-ending search for new assignments, I often find it ironic that the level of professionalism that is demanded of writers is often a one-sided affair. Case in point: over the past month, I have been contacted by two … Continue reading
Be Who You Want, Have What You Want by Chris Prentiss
The subtitle of this book is, Change your thinking, change your life. And that’s basically what Chris Prentiss, author of The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure, Zen and the Art of Happiness and other books, promotes: you are what you think. … Continue reading
Is the “Wovel” the Publishing Wave of the Future?
It was only a matter of time. In these days of texting rather than conversing, socializing via Facebook and Twitter rather than face-to-face, and being tied to a cell phone 24/7, enter the cell phone novel. Think serial, as in the days … Continue reading
Pruning the Trees for Writing Opportunities
After eight months of no writing jobs, where the market started resembling a desert, I’ve just been handed a huge writing project on a subject I know nothing about. It involves writing a 65,000 word book on pruning trees and bushes, … Continue reading
Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever
I picked up Susan Cheever’s book, Home Before Dark, years ago because the title intrigued me. A title should be “tough,” as one English professor told me in my college days, and Cheever’s title is certainly that. The book languished … Continue reading
Hippocrates
“”A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”
Rest in Peace Ted
“If by a liberal, they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind … someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights … then I am proud … Continue reading
The Natural Writer Versus the Nurtured Writer
Can anybody be a writer? Is it a talent you are born with or one that’s learned? These are age-old questions that can apply to just about any artistic field. And the answer to both is … yes and no. … Continue reading
What Can You Do to Avoid the “Spread”?
One problem that many writers, secretaries and others chained to their desks encounter is something that used to be called “secretary spread”; that is, so much time is spent in a chair as opposed to physical work, that one’s bum … Continue reading