Comments on: Are You a Writer, a Blogger (or Both)?

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:37:12 +0000

Hello, I’m new to this blog. I wanted to answer why I think I’m a blogger and not a writer. First, I blog because I love sharing information with others, I have no formal training, or excellent writing skills. I make common errors when writing and often notice them after I post, lastly, I have a lot of respect for those who are truly writers.

I subscribe to your blog hoping to get better at writing, I think that blogging can take me to be a better writer. Cool post, thanks.

By: Melissa Donovan

Melissa Donovan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:51:12 +0000

I am a writer first, and a blogger second. Having said that, I absolutely love blogging, and what I love most is that it diversifies the writing process and makes it much easier to share thoughts, ideas, and of course, written work. -Melissa Donovan Writing FORWARD

By: Em

Em — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:02:46 +0000

In college I wrote a lot for a couple newspapers, but now I want to do more with editing and proofreading. There are a lot of sites for mainly writers, but I would love to find a site geared toward hooking up freelance proofreaders/copy editors with employers.

By: Tom Bonner

Tom Bonner — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:00:11 +0000

I consider myself a journalist. My work has been published in a variety of print publications, and I’ve worked on assignment often in the past. Today the majority of writing is for my blog, but I use many of the same techniques I did when writing for print. Blogging can be more relaxed in tone, but I attempt to maintain the standards my past editors demanded.

So I am a blogger, a writer and a journalist. Of course, I also use a camera to illustrate my writing…so that makes me a photo journalist as well…

Really enjoy your blog. I also follow you on Performancing as well.

Tom Bonner
http://alphatracks.com

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:41:32 +0000

I make most of my money writing abstracts, articles about drug discovery, and training materials for medical interpreters. I blog about Russian literature in my spare time. Beyond being fun, it’s a great way to build my writing portfolio.
http://lizoksbooks.blogspot.com/

By: S.

S. — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:29:04 +0000

I am a writer at the end of the day. I recently got a blog, and I am AWFUL at it! I feel lame because I can never get a feel of what to write since there’s no clear objective. I am slowly but surely learning, but enjoy writing articles, SEO, and copy far more. Check out my “work” here: http://style-television.com/

By: Erik Hare

Erik Hare — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:10:07 +0000

To make a living freelancing, you do have to be diverse. I’m looking at a real opportunity to break into PR and possibly publishing at the same time, but I’m keeping my grant writing work!

I say that I am a writer because you’ll never impress women at a bar saying you’re a blogger. Wait! I’m not single anymore! Scratch that!

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:27:38 +0000

Judging from all these responses, I think it’s pretty clear that in order to make a living freelancing, you’ve got to be fairly diverse.

My degree is in English, my work experience in PR writing, proofreading, and copy editing, yet now I find myself mostly providing health and environmental web content and/or blogging on the same topics.

And people think we sit around doing nothing most of the day! Freelancers are some of the hardest working people I know.

By: Amy Derby

Amy Derby — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:03:28 +0000

I’m both, but more clients seem to want blogging than anything else lately. Unfortunately, all the blogging I’m doing for everyone else is really limiting the time I have to blog on my own blogs. I don’t know how you do it, Deb!

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:56:07 +0000

I do editorial as well – proofing, copy editing, etc.