I am so. pooped. I spent yesterday blogging, troubleshooting with RCA, landing a temp gig, doing product reviews, researching a story for Babble, and going over edits with my Nerve editor. And salsa-dancing. Here is your weekly link love. I’m taking a Nutella break:
Archive for March, 2009
March 5th, 2009
4 Things I Loved About Career Renegade
It’s been a few months since a book got me really fired-up about my career. Despite gaining momentum in the writing realm, with assignments from TONY, Babble, Lemondrop, and Nerve, I’ve had other career-related plans on the back burner for months, with no clue as to how I could possibly move forward with them. Then, [...]
March 4th, 2009
Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes
After reading a transcript of last week’s editorchat — a Twitter-hosted conversation between writers and editors — I got to thinking about how lucky I was to have had worked on both sides of the fence over the past eight years. Too often, writers find themselves wondering why in heck editors do the things they [...]
March 3rd, 2009
Product Placement: The Flip Mino
The Flip Mino – An Intro from Steph Auteri on Vimeo. Hey there guys. A couple months ago, I was reading about the Flip Mino, and how it was the new It tool for journalists everywhere. Why? You could use it both to take interviews and photograph subjects, and its slim, sleek design made it [...]
Steph Auteri 
Posted in products 
Tags: camcorder, flip, flip mino, gadgets, handheld, mino, rca, rca small wonder, small wonder, tech, video, video camera 
2 Comments » March 3rd, 2009
Build Your Own: Writing Group
I’ve been missing my old writing group. We met several years ago, in Cris Beam’s From Pitch to Publish Class at New School. For at least a year, the four of us workshopped each others’ pieces, shared contacts, suggested paying markets, and basically gave each other the kicks in the ass we needed. Eventually, life [...]
Steph Auteri Posted in community, motivation, networking, writing Tags: community, motivation, networking, workshop, workshops, writers, writing, writing group 7 Comments » March 2nd, 2009
PSA: Freelancedom Updates
Hey everybody! I just wanted to let you know about some updates I made to Freelancedom over the weekend. Aside from some minor visual tweaks, my husband has created a new logo for me (let me know what you think about the subhead!), and also figured out how to install what I feel is a [...]
