do you have a feature about the clones that hit the chart 1979-81?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Steal Away?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 23 February 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
i will absolutely pitch you about "what a fool believes."
― no trucks driven or impaled (get bent), Monday, 23 February 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
that's one of them!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 February 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
New issue, "Convalesce" -- I am slightly biased in that it contains my debut piece for the magazine.
http://mauramagazine.com/issue/54e7b8e7c873d9651bfbffe6/convalesce
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
Sometimes bias is okay. This is my debut, too.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
so psyched to have you guys in the issue
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
thanks man
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
An article about Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band! That's one of my favorite records ever.
― Evan, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
I kinda want Maura to see this:https://vimeo.com/133428328
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
I forgot to post the latest issue, in which I have an essay:
http://mauramagazine.com/issue/55919bdaada6e2242cb6eb74/foolish
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 02:27 (eight years ago) link
ooh yes Gizmodgery
― soyrev, Friday, 31 July 2015 03:32 (eight years ago) link
The Party!
― geoffreyess, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
would be curious to hear a maura's thoughts on this as i associate you with next-gen writing/publishing some kinda wayhttp://www.theawl.com/2015/09/dox-dox-dox-ii-the-doxxing
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Mary H.K. Choi has a suggestion: “Nobody become a writer unless your side hustle is finance or your parents are rich.”
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
the other day i saw a bumper sticker that said "SURFING SUCKS, DON'T TRY IT"
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
^ this has become more or less the standard info regarding "i want to be a writer" that I've heard from more or less every writer i know and yet they're all still writers, go figure
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 9, 2015 1:56 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well think about it, what ulterior motive might they have
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
they have a side hustle in finance?
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
tbh, i assume the reason most contemporary freelance pop culture writers write is because they enjoy having the finished product to look at / enjoy getting paid to be clever / enjoy the writing process to some degree / enjoy having their saythose have been major motivators for me when i dabble but i can't imagine writing for a living; freelancing is hard enough piecing together a budget when you have multi-month contracts
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
i respect the fuck outta anybody who does it; you're all astronauts to me
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
lol i definitely balance my freelance writing with a day job and suspect i'd die if i ever went completely freelance
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
I live by Wallace Stevens' stray remark about why he likes jobs: "After all, I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books as well as supreme fiction."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
I've done it for a few months at a stretch. Back in 2008-2009 I did it for almost two years, but that was back when I was able to collect unemployment for 96 weeks. That helped a lot. These days, forget it. I have a full time job that has nothing to do with either music or journalism, and I write about whatever I feel like, whenever the mood strikes (which it mostly doesn't).
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
i really hate pitching stuff. which is why i don't pitch stuff. and why i don't write more. i pretty much only write if someone asks me to. and that doesn't happen very often. but 85% of the good stuff i've ever done has come about because someone asked me to do it. so, it works for me. i'm like the slow food movement of rock crit.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
i almost never pitch either, it feels awful
― soyrev, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
I do pitch but it does feel awful every time
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 10 September 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
i freelanced A LOT when i had a 9-5 which feels pretty crazy in retrospect, but i also didn't have a kid then. now, i have a non-9-5 job that ends up leaving me with lots of little pockets of free time to get writing done, but i also have kids, so i'm kind of handicapped a +1 and a -1 that even out. but now i kind of only write what i want -- the ideas i'm too excited to not see through, or the assignments that pay too well to turn down -- and i'm happy w/ that. bouncing between writing and a different kind of work makes me enjoy both more, i think if i only wrote i would enjoy it less.
― some dude, Thursday, 10 September 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
Social media presence has def helped the reception of my pitches, but it's thanks to a full time job that I can do this shit. I will never underestimate having the sort of job with uninterrupted computer time for a couple hours a day.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 10 September 2015 01:49 (eight years ago) link
related: http://priceonomics.com/the-priceonomics-freelance-writing-program-s1000
sorry to clog the maura thread up with "the difficulties and wonders and challenges of being a freelance writer in the aughties"; is there a better thread?should i maybe make one?
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 September 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
do freelancers all have day jobs to provide their income?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
side note: why is that site called "priceonomics"? That just seems like a weirdly redundant coinage, it's like saying "Relitheology"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
thx for that curmudgeon, reposting.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 September 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
Air Supply? Really? Haha :)
― everything, Saturday, 13 February 2016 19:11 (eight years ago) link
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new issue in a week if everything comes together. thanks anyone who has held onto their subscriptions (they're going down in price bc of the intense delays i experienced all last year (and this year so far lol) in getting issues out)
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 February 2016 19:14 (eight years ago) link
Sorry for cryptic post. Maura was just on the CBC 20 mins ago discussing that particular Antipodean atrocity.
― everything, Saturday, 13 February 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
ah lol
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 February 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link