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Carnival of Beginning Writers - 2009 March - 3rd Edition — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:51:00 +0000

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By: Steff

Steff — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:43:18 +0000

There’s also the point that sometimes you can get extra jobs from listing your previous clips. I list nearly all of my clips on my website, and on several occasions I’ve recieved emails from clients or editors saying. “I’ve seen that article you did on such-and-such. Can you do me one on a similiar topic? I shall reward you handsomely.”

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Real Words at the Blog Carnival | Real Words — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:32:41 +0000

[...] The other post here that was recently included in a blog carnival here was Valuing What We Write Well which was included at the Carnival of Beginning Writers. It’s in the inspiration category along with posts on finding good ideas, doing creative writing exercises and muscle building in your writing. Other categories in the blog carnival included writing experience, giving opinions, samples from poems and short stories. There was also specific advice on topics including article submission, yoga for bloggers, and writers’ websites. [...]

By: thursday

thursday — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:30:03 +0000

@Susan, I haven’t actually had a problem with listing all of my clips overwhelming prospective clients. Depending on the specific project we’re talking about, I generally make a point of singling out a relevant piece or two — but I’ve heard some great responses from clients who like the ability to see more than one or two cherry-picked clips.

In the end, I think it’s really a question of what works for you, though. If maintaining one big list is easiest for you, great.If just having a set of three or four clips you like to submit, that works too.

By: Susan Johnston

Susan Johnston — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:33:58 +0000

Aw, the bad link problem… I know that one well. If you have permission to post the story on your website, you could do it on a separate page as text (or an excerpt). Alternatively, you could take a screenshot or save a web article as a PDF. I’d recommend this in case the website completely disappears.

Do you think that listing all of your clips might overwhelm the reader? I’ve culled my list to a few of my best clips in each niche so that it’s not an exhaustive list. All of my online clips are also saved in Delicious.com in case I need to find them later.

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Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:41:46 +0000

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By: thursday

thursday — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:09 +0000

It’s definitely a pet peeve of mine. I always feel that there’s so little to be done about content thieves — it’s a frustrating situation.

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:16:01 +0000

HA! Thanks for the laugh. It’s unbelievable how some folks who steal a web site don’t even bother to fix the URLs or anything. Talk about lazy!

By: thursday

thursday — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:11:18 +0000

@Meryl, Since it’s you, you’re welcome to copy it. I’ve got to warn you, though — all those clips do have my byline on them. You might be better off using your own clips.