Sable Lit Reviews

Last Friday, I did what everyone dreads this time of year. I sat down with the tax guy to review my tax obligation for 2008. In previous years, I daringly filed my own taxes using one of the leading tax software programs.  But this year with the interesting financial moves I made and having actually [...]

I’ve discussed before the concept of how everything is a trade-off. I’ve been temping for the last two months in addition to completing freelance assignments. Many of my “co-workers” have inquired as to whether I wanted to get hired on as a permanent employee. Of course, in this economy anyone who doesn’t have a thriving [...]

As you may know, I wear many hats. I’m a freelance writer, a multicultural fiction author, a multicultural commentator on books, movies and current events. I have also worked in finance and online higher education. I’ve recently decided that the umbrella that covers all these labels is literary entrepreneur. Sometimes as a freelancer or an [...]

 As a freelance writer, you are constantly marketing yourself. As a traditional worker, you tend to market your abilities only when it’s time for a new cubicle with a better view, or if you’re high enough on the corporate climbing wall, a more opulent office, a bigger bonus and a fatter paycheck. A freelance writer [...]

When it comes to writing, mastering grammar, punctuation and spelling matters little if you have yet to settle on a topic. While these details are important, writing is a series of processes, some creative and others analytical. A bottomless reservoir of ideas and topics is the life-blood of any writer. Many writing gurus address writer’s [...]

Here we are at the final episode of What Every Freelance Writer Hates. Well, I don’t need to tell you that I spent the rest of that evening feeling like a kid on Christmas Eve or like an adult on the eve of starting a new job. Many questions ran through my head, like:   [...]

OK, I’ve kept you in suspense long enough. Now, where was I? Oh yeah, wandering around the computer department at Best Buy. I was confronted with two rows of desktops and row after row and table after table of laptops. I guess they don’t call them laptops anymore. I have one but it hasn’t worked [...]

Yes, it happened to me. My Sony Vaio which was more than six years old finally bit the dust. I have to admit, it had some help. You see, it was running real slow. I mean REAL slow and IE kept crashing. After having it reconfigured a few months ago, I was more than a [...]

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As writers, people often view us as the literary version of the ‘starving artist’. Society holds two assumptions: ·         If you are not Nora Robert, Stephen King or some other high-profile writer then your chances of earning a living with your creativity is slim. ·         Being a successful writer is a matter of writing and [...]