Same here. Catalog descriptions for Brookstone, Website content for small businesses, and the buckets of other odd writing gigs that supplement the art and craft of covering school committee meetings, writing opinion columns, penning features and recording radio pieces.

BTW, I bought that typewriter at a yard sale for $5. Then I used the advance check from my first book to get it restored. It weighs about two million pounds, but it’s the utmost in cool.

Better still, the new kittens can’t destroy it.

Thanks for writing!

I’ve written press releases, advertising copy, tons of copy for web sites (not the cheap SEO stuff for a couple bucks a page), descriptive text for museum exhibits, you name it. Even had a long freelance gig answering computer questions under the guise of a “computer genius” for a retailer. (Can you guess?) I enjoy the variety. Keeps me sane, though my husband may disagree with that one!

My background is in radio journalism, and I started freelancing print journalism pieces while I had the radio job.

And I have a typewriter almost identical to the one you’re posing with. It still works, and I occasionally bang out copy on it just because I can.

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