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Archives: November 2006

'Grunts and squeaks' wins Bad Sex Award

Words That Will Last An Eternity

10 Tips For Staying Fit While Working From Home

Advice Roundup From Agents and Editors

The Twelve Days of Writer's Christmas: Query Letters that Rock

How To Pitch: Scripps Networks

Tackling the Trades

Why Writing and Selling a Novel in Order to Make Friends is Not a Good Idea

Choosing a Writing Contest

How to Pitch: The Hollywood Reporter

Just Because There are Only a Few Days Left in NaNoWriMo Doesn't Mean It's Too Late to Quit!

Don't Quit Your Day Job

11.28.06 Reference Shelf

Selling Recipes is Hard

Writing and Selling Recipes

How to Work from Home

How He Promoted His Book

On the Main Site

Tech Update for All Cutting-Edge Writers!

Another Gift for Writers

Building a Copywriting Portfolio III: Tips from James P. Othmer

Building a Copywriting Portfolio II: Advice from Jennifer Solow

Pitches That Worked: The New York Times City section

Building a Copywriting Portfolio I

Thanks!

How to Keep Your Job as an Editorial Assistant

The Readers Answer: Is it possible for a journalist to write ethically about a parent's drug addiction?

Readers Saving You Some Money

How to Pitch: The New York Post 'Pulse'

Coming Up With Those F'ing FOBS!

Contests, Anthologies and Residencies

The Writer's Resume

Early Christmas Shopping for Writers

Reference Shelf: 11.21.06

Ask Metafilter Writing Questions Round-Up

Pitching a Publication, Pitching an Agent

Ask the Readers: Is it possible for a journalist to write ethically about a parent's drug addiction?

Call for Submissions: Chicken Soup for the Sisters' and Brothers' Soul

A Few Tips on Writing a Television Ad

The Kid With All the News About the TV News is OUR Kid!

Writing and Selling First-Person Pieces and More!

This Has to Have Some Practical Application...

ToolBox Timetable

Write in November, Get Scammed in December

Reference Shelf 11.17.06

Backup Paranoia

'Is Print Dead? Discuss!'

Networking Techniques That Work Fast and Pay Off Big!

And the Bad Teases...

The Good Kind of Tease

Two From Writers Digest on Time Management

The Uses of Heidi Julavits

How Tech Writing Sucks: The Five Sins

Today on MB

What is a Scout?

Blogging Tips and Tools Roundup

Hot Young Things

And on the Main Site...

Ace Your Next Performance Review

The A-Ha Moment

Should I work on my book without getting paid?

A-Hem!

"Holy F, I'm supposed to send my editors a gift??? WTF?? How did I not know this and do I look bad for never having sent one?"

Today on the Main Site

Getting Your Travel Book Published

Asking the Readers: How Do You Troll?

Hustle & Flow

An Agent's Job

Holy Faulkner!

Book Keeping: Six-Figure Advance for 'Living the Story'

Getting the Internship, and Keeping It

An Uncertain Review

Essential Tools for the Placeless Office

I Asked Metafilter:

Annie Logue's Tips for Being on TV

The New Toy: The Final Evaluation

How to Pitch: Sunset

Resources For Paying Foreign Markets

A Call for Cheaper Phone Service

Got a Bad Case of NaScriWriMo?

ToolBox Timetable

How to Pitch: Runner's World

This Month in from the ASJA

Authoring Business Books versus Covering Business for a Newspaper

This Week in AskMefi-Writey

How's Your Agent?

When an Editor Screws Up

What's New at mb Today

On What Makes Interviews Work

Writing Workshops for Beginners

Renegade Writer Q&A: Peter Bowerman

Reference Shelf: 11.7.06

What Agents Like/Don't Like

Lessons Learned from 19+ Years as a Freelancer & Recruiter in the Editorial Industry

Slightly Bumping Up Your Web Traffic Via Wikipedia

Polling Place Photo Project

NaDruWriNi: Now That's An Accomplishment

Actual Paying Blog Job

Fame & Fortune: Author Janet Evanovich

This Week in MB Classes: Sign Up Today!

How to Pitch: Salon

Pitches That Worked: Penthouse

Don't Just Back Up Your Writing

Is Your Freelance Business Too Successful?

On Writing Bad Book Reviews

Blogging Advice Roundup

Pop Quiz: Doug Gordon

How to Pitch: Inc.

How To Become a Reality Producer, Part III

Work Out Your Brain

How To Become a Reality Producer, Part II

A Brief Endorsement of Google Scholar

How to Pitch: Entertainment Weekly

So What Do You Do, Christie Hefner?

How to Crack the Code

Protecting Confidential Sources in Chicago

A Taxonomy of Book Publicists

If the Stiletto Fits...

SalesRants XVIII: Masters of Their Domain Name

How to Pitch: Coastal Living

How To Become a Reality Producer: Part I

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