Freelance Writing
I was searching the Web lastnight for Freelance Writing Opportunities when I came across Baby Blogger. She posts tips for freelance writers and links for money-making opportunities online. Among those links that interested me, was a link to ten Ten Universities offering Free Writing Courses Online. I have only checked out the links to courses on MIT’s Open CourseWare offerings and they really are interesting.
I would like to explore the other writing courses listed in the link to help me improve on my writing. This makes me realize again that I probably studied the wrong discipline in the University; perhaps I should have taken a different course. That’s not entirely true, really. At that time, I was interested in Psychology and I still am, to some extent. It’s just that my life choices since then have led me to a different path.
Not that I’m in writing these days. Apart from my blogs, I do not write elsewhere. I have not attempted to write fiction and poetry since high school. I used to churn out pretty decent essays for my various courses in college. Now – ugh.
I used to think that writing was a gift – you either had it or you didn’t. I just lost it, maybe?
Maybe I can find writing courses at the UP that I can attend? I don’t know who to ask though. And knowing myself, if there’s no one to go with, I wouldn’t go. I hate that sometimes.
Anyway, I learned about Project Gutenberg from the Introduction to Fiction course at OCW. Project Gutenberg is a collection of eBooks available for download – free! Don’t worry, they do consider US copyright laws even before they include etext in their archives. Unless your country has more stringent copyright laws, then you probably won’t be violating any law when you download material from them. Most books in the collection are Classics.
I must say that I am biased against ebooks. I just don’t find etext appealing. I’d much rather prefer holding an actual book in my hands, feel the pages, smell them even. But there are titles that are beyond my reach, or sometimes it’s just good to be able to read a few pages before deciding to buy my own copy. So being able to go to Project Gutenberg and checkout works from literary genius is just the right thing for me.
October 13, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Interesting post – I may subscribe to your feed and link you back – have a look at my blog and see if you would like to be on my blogroll…
Writing is not my only interest, but it is one and did feature in the reason I blog at all.
October 14, 2008 @ 12:42 am
Girl, I’m a psych grad, too. And boy, was that course fun! 🙂 A psych grad in this country can either take further studies (law, med), teach or go into personnel management. None of those mentioned piqued my interest, so I tried writing. And here I am, stuck with technical writing. But please, don’t make me do creative. I simply suck! 🙂
October 14, 2008 @ 2:25 am
True it was a lot of fun. I had originally intended it to be a pre-law course but I changed my mind. I initially thought pursuing something IN psych but I also changed my mind about that. Haha. 🙂