Join us for our final panel of 2020!!!
Join us for our final panel of 2020!!!
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Hello friends! Can you believe it’s December?! Literally it feels like a month ago we launched this project and were doing our first Sunday Zoom panels. Yet here we are at the end of the year, and what a year it’s been: Nine months, some 70 panels, 6,500 new friends in this newsletter, a hugely successful fundraiser for the Journalist Furlough Fund, a brand new Instagram and countless pearls of wisdom doled out by the more than 100 ace journalists who have been guests on a Sunday panel.
I hope this year has been as fun for all of you as it has been for me! Running this project has been the brightest spot for me in an incredibly dark year, and I hope that over the past nine months you’ve felt the same way.
As you might have noticed we’ve been on a quiet little break, and we’re going to take the rest of the year off to rest up and plan for all of the amazing things we have in store for 2021: even more panels, more guidance and advice on making it as a journalist, more newsletters, original stories commissioned from freelance journalists, more everything. It’s gonna be soooo great and I hope you’ll join us for the ride!
That said: We want to say happy holidays and wish you a successful 2021!
SO! Join Nicole and I this Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern time for the final Zoom panel of the year! It’s gonna be an anything-goes AMA, so bring any and all questions, thoughts and ideas that are on your mind and let’s have some fun!
Register to join us here. It’s gonna be a real fun one, and I so so hope you can join us!
This is the last you’ll hear from us in 2020, so I just wanted to say a sincere thank you to everyone who has been a part of this. It has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in my career, and I couldn’t be more honored to be a part of this community.
See you on Sunday!
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Oh, a few other things …
• Missed a panel? We’re building an archive of our Zoom panel playbacks over on Patreon! So far we’ve got playbacks on how to cover culture during a pandemic, how to write better personal essays, how to write better pitches, the business of freelancing and more, and in the next few weeks we’ll be posting playbacks on how to get into copywriting, how to write a book, how to be a better freelancer, how to cover travel during a pandemic and more. Subscribers at the $10 level get full access plus early access to panel registration, Patreon-exclusive posts and even more. Subscribe here!
(Curious why we launched a Patreon? Here’s an F.A.Q.!)
• If you’re new to FWT, I wanna show you some highlights! We’ve gotten a ton of new subscribers since we last wrote, so if this is the first newsletter you’re getting, here’s a taste of what you can expect:
• Answers to the 8 most common questions about pitching
• Here's what a bunch of publications pay freelancers
• 50+ pitching guides for NYT, NatGeo, Wired, WaPo, Bustle and more
• How to stop pitching ideas and start pitching stories
• How Taylor Crumpton uses Twitter to get work
• Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram!
• We are still looking for a new name! This project has grown far beyond our current moniker, and we need your help in renaming it! Email your best ideas to freelancingwithtim@gmail.com.
• Send questions, comments, thoughts, cute pet photos or anything else to freelancingwithtim@gmail.com, and follow me on Twitter for updates throughout the week on all things FWT.
Okay bye ily!
— Tim ❤️