Registration open for October's free Zoom panels!
Registration open for October's free Zoom panels!
Get in quick!
(Illustration by Matt Lubchansky)
Hello, and happy spooky season 🦇 🎃 🧛🏼♀️ 🔮 🍂!!
Let’s talk about October’s free Zoom panels, we have SO much good stuff for you!! Take a look below, and click each link to sign up for that session — feel free to sign up for as many as you’d like! (All times are Eastern.)
Oct. 11
3 p.m.: Pitch perfect: Everything to know about pitching stories
4:30 p.m.: How to be a better freelancer
Oct. 18
3 p.m.: Partner panel with Permission to Write: Making it as a BIPOC journalist
4:30 p.m.: The business of freelancing: Contracts, rates, platforms and more
Oct. 25
3 p.m.: How to get into and write better cultural criticism
4:30 p.m.: Travel writing during the pandemic
Want more insider advice about crafting, pitching and getting paid for your stories? Subscribe to get it right in your inbox, along with information about upcoming free Zoom panels about making it as a freelancer.
To view all of October’s sessions on one page, click here, and follow me on Twitter for panel updates throughout the week.
And, as always, please feel free to share this with and/or forward this to any journalists or organizations who might be interested!
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 How to write better personal essays, How to write better pitches and the Business of freelancing, with playbacks coming soon on Covering culture during a pandemic, How to write a book, Travel writing during a pandemic, How to be a better freelancer, more advice on writing better personal essays and much 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.!)
• FWT is looking for pitches! Got a great idea for an advice/guidance story on how to be a better freelancer or writer? I want to hear it! Email your pitch to freelancingwithtim@gmail.com and put “Freelance pitch” in the subject line. (And yes, of course, we pay!)
• ICYMI: We recently did a Q&A with freelancer extraordinaire Kim Kelly. It’s full of great advice about negotiating rates and staying true to your perspective.
• Follow FWT on Instagram here! There’s gonna be sooooo much great video stuff there very soon! (From Nicole: come for the events, stay for grumpy screenshots of Tim’s cat Strudel from our Zoom panels!)
• As always, send questions, comments, thoughts, cute pet photos or anything else to freelancingwithtim@gmail.com, and follow me on Twitter for updates throughout the week.
Okay bye ily!
-Tim ❤️