Freelance tip #23

Think big. Don’t pitch to your local weekly first — pitch to the New Yorker, then work your way down to a podunk weekly. The New Yorker turns you down. Then you pitch to New York Magazine. They turn you down. Then you pitch to… Continue reading →

Time to organize

Every time I need to find a phone number I hastily jotted at the end of an interview, I have to dig through a stack of unlabeled notebooks.