My writing day: Anne Wollenberg

FREELANCE journalist Anne Wollenberg specialises in entertainment, technology and workplace issues and also works on more general or 'real life' features.

She writes for newspapers and a mixture of consumer, trade and customer magazines. As a result, she says that “working” has involved "interviewing everyone from members of the Lost cast to a woman whose husband is impotent."

Anne is a fellow member at JournoBiz and I know I speak for more members there when I say that her success in her freelance career, just 12 months in, is an inspiration.

In praise of Mywriterscircle.com

REGULAR readers of this blog (and there are a few, you know!) may well be aware of my admiration for JournoBiz but there is another writing forum that has also been a great help to me recently.

JournoBiz forums are go

WELCOME back to JournoBiz and its wonderful forums.

If you're not a member yet, do check them out - you'd be hard pushed to find a more supportive and vital site for freelance journalists. Honest. I'm so happy to see some technical glitches have now been sorted.

Related post: In praise of JournoBiz.

In praise of Porridge: Beat that for comedy writing!

THIS has stayed with me since the first time I saw it. It was repeated tonight. Anyone care to share how to write like that? Which TV writing do you most admire? [Linda]

In praise of the local press

SO you think life on a local paper is just about flower shows and lost dogs?

On some days you may be right – especially as regional titles are increasingly turning to ‘community’ news in an attempt to boost flagging sales.

But any aspiring journalist who turns their nose up at their local paper is not giving the ranks of hugely talented staff working in the regions their due.