The AHCJ web site is full of info that’s typically tough to search out. That must be remedied early subsequent yr with AHCJ’s deliberate web site redesign. Within the meantime, I assumed it will be a good suggestion to assessment the choices of the Freelance Center.
I’ll begin with the Networking tab. There yow will discover articles about networking at conferences, suggestions for beginning a neighborhood writers’ group and lists of different organizations to contemplate becoming a member of. Most outstanding on the tab is the checklist of Lunch and Be taught Zoom conferences, held on the third Thursday of each month, besides in July and August, once we give everybody a breather. These conferences, that are held at midday CT, are usually not recorded, permitting freelancers to speak in an uninhibited approach concerning the designated matter.
The subsequent Lunch and Be taught is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 15. The subject is discovering and maintaining accountability companions. Be part of the dialogue you probably have a colleague you periodically test in with to assessment your story concepts, preview a pitch, get help at low moments and vent about editors. We’d like to listen to about your expertise in maintaining that relationship going. And if you wish to set up such a relationship, take part together with your questions.
On the October Lunch and Be taught, we’ll chat about instruments and apps that we have now tried to assist us keep organized at work. It’s a approach to assist each other keep away from the worst and determine the most effective. The Zoom link stays the identical each month.
The opposite tabs on the Freelance Middle are:
All of the tabs function new and up to date content material. For instance, below the Pitching, Reporting & Writing tab, you possibly can learn suggestions for ghostwriting a ebook and how one can develop into area of interest publications. On the Instruments & Apps tab, I lately added assets for video enhancing and internet hosting and constructing web sites. On the Awards, Grants & Fellowships web page, there at the moment are 9 awards listed and 12 grants and fellowships. The newest one is the Journalists in Getting old Fellows Program, the place fellows attend the annual scientific assembly of the Gerontological Society of America and decide to finishing one short-term story and one long-term in-depth undertaking about any research-based side of getting old.
Please email me with strategies for assets you want to see on the Freelance Middle.
