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karen posted an update in the group Memoir Writing: 4 days, 11 hours ago · View
Notes from the other side: This is a memoir of kindergarten… teaching. I may use it as a writing sample, or, um, shouldn’t I? T https://acrobat.com/#d=aNLU3sRLa5Uy2RF7dcTSIg (That link is an Adobe Acrobat doc.)
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karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild: 1 week ago · updated 1 week ago · View
There are things I can not seem to find answers to: Do people like resumes attached in Word, or online…? Links to online profile or portfolio on the resume, or no? And uh, do people like their 250 word samples double spaced?
If I get everything really right I’m making a PDF… unless of course people don’t like PDFs…
Karen are you writing resumes for folks? Or are you supplying examples? I’m not totally connecting with your issue, woe is me :O
I’m just sending a resume and a sample. When I’ve applied for jobs, I’ve always attached Word files, but it looks like a lot of people who do freelance have resumes that are posted online — so I just don’t know if it’s more standard at this point to send an attachment or a link.
There are some nifty little gigs that get posted online occasionally; when I encounter one that seems like it might be particularly up my alley, I just try to put everything together right. This is the one I encountered today: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/wrg/1933004194.html
I’m no where near applying for the job you linked to on CL…however…as a person that knows about applying online I’d advise attaching a Notepad (or something similar) resume versus something written in Word. If the prospective employer is more lenient I’d sure encourage you to create an online resume that you can link to in a flash. ~Keeping my fingers crossed that you get the job you apply for.
Thanks! The post I linked to is more in my subject area, but I believe I have seen ones that were more in yours. I’ll pass along something if it really seems to be — if you want me to. (I do believe I have skimmed the Craiglist writing jobs for every major city in the country this week via Twitter.)
I am not familiar with Notepad. I am thinking maybe PDF on this, when I’m sure I have it right.
Oh yeah, send me any links. Do you have my direct email?
Notepad is a Windows text editor…if you use another program I am sure you have something similar. Anywho pleased as punch to hash this all out Karen.
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Thanks! The post I linked to is more in my subject area, but I believe I have seen ones that were more in yours. I’ll pass along something if it really seems to be — if you want me to. (I do believe I have skimmed the Craiglist writing jobs for every major city in the country this week via Twitter.)
I am not familiar with Notepad. I am thinking maybe PDF on this, when I’m sure I have it right.
In reply to - karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild : There are things I can not seem to find answers to: Do people like resumes attached in Word, or online…? Links to online profile or portfolio on the resume, or no? And uh, do people like their 250 word samples double spaced? If I get everything really right [...] · View -
I’m just sending a resume and a sample. When I’ve applied for jobs, I’ve always attached Word files, but it looks like a lot of people who do freelance have resumes that are posted online — so I just don’t know if it’s more standard at this point to send an attachment or a link.
There are some nifty little gigs that get posted online occasionally; when I encounter one that seems like it might be particularly up my alley, I just try to put everything together right. This is the one I encountered today: http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/wrg/1933004194.html
In reply to - karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild : There are things I can not seem to find answers to: Do people like resumes attached in Word, or online…? Links to online profile or portfolio on the resume, or no? And uh, do people like their 250 word samples double spaced? If I get everything really right [...] · View -
karen commented on the blog post 2nd Grade: An Assassination and Annette Funicello 1 week ago · View
2nd grade fascinations — oh, yes. My primary one, at seven, was a truck driver who drove around with a chimpanzee strapped in the front seat of his big rig. I mentioned this years later, and someone asked, “Clint Eastwood, right?” Oh, no! Their chimpanzee-toting truck driver might have been Clint Eastwood — I gather [...]
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karen commented on the blog post Kindeegarden and Godzilla 1 week, 1 day ago · View
This captures not just concrete memories, but something of the character of the kindergarten classroom and its inhabitants as well.
I think my mother was allergic to penicillin,too. It took her to a more advanced age to run into trouble from it.
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karen commented on the blog post On Missing — and not Missing — 4th Grade 1 week, 2 days ago · View
One thing that struck me about that comment was the phrase “passionate about people”. Of course being passionate is a very different thing than being overtly demonstrative. I can’t think of Melissa being demonstrative except in those 4th grade notes. Melissa was a quiet girl who had been a friend in 2nd and 3rd grade… [...]
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Thanks. Can I ask one another question? Another kind of big-deal post came through one, a very different one, and it did detail specifics about what to send, but I have a couple points of uncertainty. (Just not certain enough what I am doing yet, and there are certain things that leave this question mark in my head.)
In reply to - karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild : I began sending queries out this week, after I started getting a stream of postings that didn’t require bidding in the traditional sense. There’s one Twitter account that is sending out the Craigslist writing jobs/ gigs from major cities around the country. It’s a mixed bag lot of [...] · View -
karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild: 1 week, 4 days ago · updated 1 week, 3 days ago · View
I began sending queries out this week, after I started getting a stream of postings that didn’t require bidding in the traditional sense. There’s one Twitter account that is sending out the Craigslist writing jobs/ gigs from major cities around the country. It’s a mixed bag lot of course, but I see one or two that strikes me as worth querying. The Twitter account, for anyone who wants it, is writersjobs. This is something that came through yesterday that took some thought : http://austin.craigslist.org/wrg/1925841688.html It said to email for details, and didn’t say to send samples in the email, so I didn’t. I did give a line or two of background and noted that I could end samples if it would help them ”in their in thei decision making process”. I’m not real sure of the protocol on these things. — kind of winging it
First off…thanks for the Twitter user, I will set them up so that their updates come into our Activity Stream.
The real protocol is to follow the instructions to the letter (as you did) and be ready to fire back any samples or other details they may want.
Thanks. Can I ask one another question? Another kind of big-deal post came through one, a very different one, and it did detail specifics about what to send, but I have a couple points of uncertainty. (Just not certain enough what I am doing yet, and there are certain things that leave this question mark in my head.)
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karen wrote a new blog post: On Missing — and not Missing — 4th Grade 1 week, 3 days ago · View
I missed half of my 4th grade year. I think the adventure might have begun with the school portrait I brought home that year, the one that caused my mother to say over and over, “Something is the matter with Karen,” and my aunt to respond soothingly, on the weekends she came over, “Don’t make [...]
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karen commented on the blog post Kindergarten – A Memoir Prompt 1 week, 4 days ago · View
That must be the quintessential kindergarten picture. It was something else in the post, though, that had me writing almost immediately, about a year I missed, but didn’t miss at all. (Now I’m stumbling around a bit uncertainly, seeing if I still know how to post.)
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karen commented on the blog post A Memory Of First Grade 1 week, 4 days ago · View
My first grade classroom was not in a basement, but that brings back memories for me, too.
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karen commented on the blog post Nuts About Memoir 1 week, 4 days ago · View
I am very behind in these prompts. I ponder them, but I haven’t really sat down and put in focused effort on one in several weeks.
I have been composing my personal history of computers, but I doubt I am going to finish it before tomorrow’s prompt comes out.
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karen commented on the blog post A Simple Pair of Skates 2 weeks, 6 days ago · View
One of my cousins was a serious skater when she was growing up — off to the rink at 5:00 AM. I was on the ice myself only a few times, but curiously one of my first serious fictional characters was – is – a skater. I guess that makes me a vicarious skater. Very [...]
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karen commented on the blog post Streams of Choice 3 weeks, 4 days ago · View
There is a well known novel that includes images of a river, and river metaphor. This reminds me a bit of that.
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karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild: 4 weeks ago · updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago · View
There are some various resources about freelancing. But I have a big question about ’the portfolio’ referenced here and there.
Sometimes the problem is not knowing how to put up a profile, but what to put on it.
Going back a handful of years, it was kind of intimidating to submit to lit journals because they so often asked for a bio and I didn’t have any writing credits. I was unpublished. Thus the 3 sentence bio was far more difficult than actually writing the piece — it was the stumbling block. It did get easy once I had some lit journal pieces.
But I have never done a freelance gig for hire, for another person. The question in so many enterprises is what one shows people when they’ve never done exactly the thing they’re going for.
Just like the ’real’ world; you have to give proof. Generally any sample will do. I have pointed to posts at my own blogs…
Thanks. It shouldn’t be too hard to find writing samples/ articles to link to. It occurs to me that a portfolio is not necessarily difficult — a resume would be, but that’s not quite the same thing. Should I link to my Poets & Writers directory listing as well? It lists conventionally published work, not freelancing — but posting the link on a portfolio still might help me look more like a legitimate writer? (It’s a creative nonfiction listing.)
Actually…Site Advisor Carrie could give you an even better answer; I’m sure.
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Thanks. It shouldn’t be too hard to find writing samples/ articles to link to. It occurs to me that a portfolio is not necessarily difficult — a resume would be, but that’s not quite the same thing. Should I link to my Poets & Writers directory listing as well? It lists conventionally published work, not freelancing — but posting the link on a portfolio still might help me look more like a legitimate writer? (It’s a creative nonfiction listing.)
In reply to - karen posted an update in the group Freelancers’ Guild : There are some various resources about freelancing. But I have a big question about ’the portfolio’ referenced here and there. Sometimes the problem is not knowing how to put up a profile, but what to put on it. Going back a handful of years, it was kind of [...] · View -
I went to look up a semi-long forum post I had written over a week ago (about something I had questions about that wasn’t a quick Q & A sort of thing).
The forum post… wasn’t there. I know other people have had problems doing forum posts; it appeared to be letting me, but then -poof-
Karen…I am sorry that the post is gone. Because of the Frankenstein technical nature of the site, there is a way to hold your tongue that makes all forum posts good and stuck. Read the first sticky post in this group’s forum.
Thanks!
It just occurred the post is not exactly gone.
It started out to be a comment on a blog post (yours), but it went on too long, meandered too far off-topic, became too large of a question for a log comment. Before erasing my work or pasting it onto a forum, I pasted it… into gmail. From which can be retrieved even now.
In its next incarnation, I think it will be an update.
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It just occurred the post is not exactly gone.
It started out to be a comment on a blog post (yours), but it went on too long, meandered too far off-topic, became too large of a question for a log comment. Before erasing my work or pasting it onto a forum, I pasted it… into gmail. From which can be retrieved even now.
In its next incarnation, I think it will be an update.
In reply to - karen posted an update in the group Support: I went to look up a semi-long forum post I had written over a week ago (about something I had questions about that wasn’t a quick Q & A sort of thing). The forum post… wasn’t there. I know other people have had problems doing forum posts; it appeared [...] · View -
karen uploaded the file: A Million Stars All Around to Memoir Writing 4 weeks, 1 day ago · updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago · View
A response to the ’sleeping outside’ prompt.
You have a wonderful way of bringing the reader right into the experience. I love the visual of ”ragged edges.”
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