Posts by Amanda C. Kooser

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.

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.

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.

I know this all sounds very rah-rah and hang in there, kitten. I’m not one to stare lovingly at motivational posters.

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.

When I do travel, I let my clients know in advance and often I work out a reduced workload during that time.

I had never taken a journalism class in my life. But there I was, Entrepreneur’s newly minted Assistant Technology Editor.