by Sue Horner | Mar 14, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Here’s some of what’s been going on behind the scenes of the happy freelancer: I had a last-minute panic call from a client. An executive did not like an employee newsletter article written by a junior staff writer. Could I listen to a taped conversation...
by Sue Horner | Mar 11, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Today I found Marci Alboher’s New York Times blog Shifting Careers, which highlights “the newfangled ways we are custom-blending careers, and shares tips for doing it better.” Check out the post about the “Web 2.0 resume,” which includes...
by Sue Horner | Mar 10, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s March break here, so Son #2 is blissfully sleeping in until noon as I work. Yes, it’s business as usual at Get It Write central, although I do plan a couple of lunches out this week and will probably drive a couple of teenagers to go snowboarding. Oh...
by Sue Horner | Mar 7, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
“Subprime” was the American Dialect Society’s word of the year (yes, it happened in January so I’m late in posting about it), but the word that had my vote is “Googleganger.” Like doppleganger, it means a person with your name who...
by Sue Horner | Mar 3, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Here’s a great quote on writing (by Ernest Hemingway) that I ran across the other day: “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” Most...
by Sue Horner | Feb 28, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It looks like it’s not too late to cast your vote for the world’s oddest book title, which will be awarded the Diagram Prize by The Bookseller, a British trade magazine. The winner will be announced March 28, with the spotter of the winning book receiving...
by Sue Horner | Feb 27, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The Toronto Star’s “the week’s best invented words” on the weekend included two I particularly enjoyed: Springbroke: the financial condition that follows Spring break (from UrbanDictionary.com) Landspam: spam delivered the old fashioned way: on...
by Sue Horner | Feb 26, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Poets and musicians have a way with words. The snow falling as I write this brings to mind my favourite Robert Frost poem, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (“He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow”) and Canadian folk singer Gordon...
by Sue Horner | Feb 22, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The Toronto Star wine critic, Gord Stimmell, alerted me to the fact that tomorrow is Open That Bottle Night. Started by Wall Street Journal columnists John Brecher and Dorothy Gaiter, the event is basically a call to wine enthusiasts to stop waiting for a special...
by Sue Horner | Feb 21, 2008 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
I caught a brief part of a radio interview today with “transformational expert” Marci Shimoff, about her book Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out. Marci is also co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and a featured expert in The...
