The beginning of a week

The blog as habit; it's like getting used to opening
e-mail first thing in the morning or checking a
link sent by a subscriber or filling out, once again,
invoices to late-payers.

...am answering a question from a young woman who just
graduated from Loyola University. She wants to do some
freelance editing work. Now, for one thing there are two
types of editors. There are editor, editors and there
are copy editors. And both can be done freelance as long
as the freelancer admits to themselves that they are in
business.

The free-agent nation is the nice phrase for the sort
of thing I see constantly. It's much more difficult than
it appears. If becoming a "free-agent" is simply a ruse
to escape confronting the work-world or mean people or
stupid people, don't worry; you will not escape them.

Another great phrase that I use on the newsletter is,
"remaking of the literary system..."

I picked that up from a female scholar and her comparisons
between the French Revolution and what was occurring on
the Net.

The incentives for the writing class are great; the tasks
arduous. The arduous tasks are ultimately worth it.