Posts by Amanda C. Kooser

My Cheap-Ass Freelance Life
I’m a certified (certifiable?) cheapskate when it comes to my business as a freelance writer in journalism and creative writing. Freelancing has been a lean-times/fat-times endeavor over the years, and it’s the ghost of the lean times that still shapes my financial habits.
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Dear Submittable, My Sweetness
Submittable, you remind me of bones bleached against the gypsum sands of New Mexico, where time and wind mark the passing of the hours, days, weeks, months since I submitted my creative nonfiction personal essay to The Gettysburg Review.
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How I Made 5 Music Videos in 2 Weeks for $0
I lost track of the hours I spent slowly scrolling through downloaded footage a few frames at a time to find usable scenes for the music videos.
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111: Chasing James Lee Burke’s Rejection Total
I know this all sounds very rah-rah and hang in there, kitten. I’m not one to stare lovingly at motivational posters.
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How to Write a Mystery Novel With Your Mom
With two books written and a third in the plotting stage, we have spent many, many hours together brainstorming plot points, discarding them, reworking, etc.
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Freelancing and Vacation When freelancing means never taking a real vacation
When I do travel, I let my clients know in advance and often I work out a reduced workload during that time.
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The Accidental Technology Journalist
I had never taken a journalism class in my life. But there I was, Entrepreneur’s newly minted Assistant Technology Editor.
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