[SpecialtyBuzz] Business & PR Writer Jennifer Mattern
Are you a freelance writer looking for your own little niche in the freelance writing stratosphere? Then this weekly SpecialtyBuzz segment is for you! Every Thursday I post an interview with a freelance writer who specializes in a particular subject matter or style of writing. Feel free to pick each SpecialtyBuzz writer’s brain about the interview and any questions you may have about getting started in his or her particular specialty.

This Week’s State of the Freelance Writing Union
While I’ve had my head buried in a 20 page paper trying to prove that flash fiction is short story at its most distilled, many of my friends and colleagues have been up to much more interesting things. (More interesting than literary criticism?! I know, I couldn’t I believe it either.) NaNoWriMo Word Counters First, a little gift for the NaNoWriMo crowd. Jennifer Mattern over at AllFreelanceWritin

[SpecialtyBuzz] Corporate Copywriter Jake Poinier
Thursday is SpecialtyBuzz day on The Life and Times of a Freelance Writer, and that means that I’m once again posting an interview with a freelance writing specialist. Whether you are a new freelance writer who hasn’t yet decided on a specialty or an old timer looking for a new niche, the weekly SpecialtyBuzz segment allows you to get a feel for what it’s like to practice a particular freelancing specialty. Jake Poi

How Accidentally Picking Up a Hitchhiker Taught Me the Importance of Implementing Firm Policies in a
When Mr. Escalona and I were relative newlyweds, we embarked on a road trip. At a rest stop one afternoon, I emerged from the bathroom to find the gregarious, friendly and helpful Mr. Escalona engaged in conversation with a middle-aged female stranger. “I need a ride a couple miles down the road, but your husband said I had to ask you,” the stranger said. A glance at Mr. Escalona gave me no clues as to what he wanted me to do. The lady seemed nice, they had been in what sounded like a friendly conversation in Spanish (considering that most Spanish sounds like yelling to me, this seemed positive), and both were looking at me expectantly, so I said, “Sur

Are You a Grammar Nazi?
…Then maybe you’re just a snob. Check out this article on Salon.com about class warfare in language and think about your intentions next time you slap someone upside the head for a dangling participle.