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SillySoul. Columnist or movie critic is usually a later step BUT
you can always start off with your own blog OR try to get into some other writing or editing initally. Grammar, vocabulary and spelling are important so never stop working on that and polishing it. I am always learning more.
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beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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Quick, Smart and Meaningful Two Thumbs Up!!
Wow,
Thanks for this. I've been trying to break into some form of writting and have met with the same failed occurances. Most of the time I'm told ideas are grand, but it's my grammar and it's getting there, but still miles to go before I sleep.
As I ponder my way throught school, I've thought of a columnist job as an option, or a movie critic, but it really does take everything in order to do what ya want. Hopefully one day I'll be able to write that great book I've always wanted to write, but untill then I'll continue to Blog-it. SLJ88
P.S. Thanks for your comments.
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SillySoul88
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November 9, 2004
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Talion, most of the columnists who come to my mind write novels too.
I am sorry to say that i think there is a great deal of stuff written about things that people know but haven't thought of for a week or two. All of these issues go in cycles. I tend to agree with Scriber's view that the key to a column is making something of almost nothing - just one simple notion is all that's required.
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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Horus. Now there is something to shoot for
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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beachbelle
What I write can best be described as common sense stuff that everybody knows but doesn't think about until someone else (like me) says it. That seems like the perfect stuff for a weekly column, but to be honest, that's not what I want to do. I'm caught up in the fiction, best-selling novelist hype and that's what I want to tackle first. Of course success in one could lead to success in the other, so I wouldn't banish the idea completely.
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Talion
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November 9, 2004
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beachbelle
another post like this and you will be my favorite blogger for ever....
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Lucifero
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November 9, 2004
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Ariala thank you. The time for you to take the next step is overdue.
Don't tell me you don't have time? You know how you spend your time.
I mean you have proved you can write consistently and can appeal to an audience and so why go around in a circle. Do it!
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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Beachbelle, this was one of my favorite posts you've put up. When I first
discovered Blogit it was because I was doing a search on how to break into newspaper column writing. After I landed here, however, I've done nothing more with my desire to one day write a weekly column. This place has taught me how to write consistently, and on a daily basis (even though some of it is crap), and I think writing a weekly column could be very interesting. My next goal is to start my own blog, but right now I have too much "real" work to pursue my Internet writing goals. 
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Ariala
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November 9, 2004
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Thank you Beachbelle!
But isn't convincing someone to hire you the hard part? That is where I would get stopped cold. I must have RISKY tattooed on my forehead. Thank you for the compliments
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Flumpystalls3000
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November 9, 2004
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Also Frankenkitty you would be a good columnist. Why?????
You are thick-skinned enough for one and not afraid to write what you think.
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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Frankenkitty, with those qualities you would be perfect for the job
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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No. I'm not columnist material.
What an interesting blog. When I was a kid, I used to play 'fashion magazine editor' with my sister. She thought I was overbearing, bossy, and impossible to please. I guess I'm doing what I'm good at - running a business. Fashion magazine editor...geeeez. What the hell was wrong with me? 
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
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November 9, 2004
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Oceandancer
The best columnists offer light not heat. Sometimes a stir will serve a cause
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beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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Beach!
This one made me smile.
Good information laced with inspirational hope.
posted by
Wildwoman_Laloba
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November 9, 2004
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Er, I hate controversy
unless I'm totally behind it and believe what I'm writing about 200%. I couldn't write for the soul sake of being controversial.
posted by
Oceandancer
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November 9, 2004
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Once again beach
another great post to keep me inspired and moving forward... do you know how much I appreciate you?
posted by
MerryAnne
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November 9, 2004
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Food for thought BB...
I have my ambitions and I am quietly plugging away at them. One day, I'll get there. In the meantime.....
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word.smith
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November 9, 2004
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yes, the names have been changed to protect the writer.....................
posted by
Hollee
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November 9, 2004
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Hollee, thanks. That is one of oldest tricks of the trade
...trawling your colleagues and friends for column fodder.
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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beach--having a weekly column can be a real chore--but more so a joy--
there were deadline days when having failed to find anything in the media to spark a new humor column--go figure--I'd wander around asking people intimate questions about their lives. Invariably, it worked.
Do you recall the episode of Sex and the City where Carrie was coming up dry for a few weeks? I can relate.........
great post beach.
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Hollee
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November 9, 2004
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Scriber, precisely so
There should be a few qualifiers here.
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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the secret is saying something when you have nothing to say.
posted by
scriber
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November 9, 2004
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Amateur, not only that ...it has removed the mystique of the columnist
posted by
beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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It's hardly surprising that columnists will watch out for bloggers. New things are always perceived as some kind of threat. Technology puts reach and audience into a blogger's hands, though the person may not write for a living.
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Amateur
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November 9, 2004
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thank you beachbelle - I'll have to do some searching...
posted by
Ca88andra
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November 9, 2004
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Ca88. Anyone can create their own blog. That is the beauty of it......
and the point to give eveyone access to a web presence. There are many, many blog sites some which are free and some which charge depending on the features you use = blogger, blogspot, xanga, radioweblogs - just have a prowl through google sometime - then you have more scope to post what you like about yourself.There are many of them. Most people blog that way rather than in a gated community like we do.
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beachbelle
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November 9, 2004
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very informative beachbelle. have you got any more information on these personal blogs, or is that something I shouldn't be asking? I'm not sure of the etiquette here, but I would like to know how they go about starting them.
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Ca88andra
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November 9, 2004
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belle
I wish I could do what you do. I love to write. I hate to do nothing. I am a really creative person. I had a long and productive career, 38 years of design, product development etc., but my thoughts fly faster than is reasonable. When I finish I have so much disjointed stuff!
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Justi
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November 8, 2004
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Justsouno
Thanks. I really was wondering. Sometimes I feels like I am in a vacuum here and wonder how things wioll play. f you sucked up the crumbs no need for the vacuum ;-).
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beachbelle
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November 8, 2004
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belle
No it was not dull! I give my self permission to not read all of anything dull. I licked the crumbs off the plate. It is good stuff.
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Justi
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November 8, 2004
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Justsouno.. Thanks but please say if helpful means DULL?
posted by
beachbelle
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November 8, 2004
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belle
Very helpful stuff, thanks.
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Justi
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November 8, 2004
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