"Whether you think you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
---Henry Ford
Today I hosted a meeting of the Writer's group started by my friend Caralee Adams. It's a wonderful group of women (and sometimes a man) who all do some kind of writing work. Some are freelancers, some are employed part-time, and some work full-time.
We sit around and talk about the types of projects we are working on. Today's meeting was small, just three of us sitting at my kitchen table. We managed to cover a lot of topics beyond writing, and somehow two hours flew by. As always I gained some new information to help with potential future writing or work-related projects.
Among our topics, we talked about how difficult it has become to be a freelance journalist. Many organizations are doing more of their writing work in-house in order to save money, and publications seems to be cutting back on freelancers as well.
Still, we love what we do -- provide information in different forms to our readers. And we plan to stick with it through these tough times. Words are powerful, and putting them together in such a way as to inform, persuade, and inspire is very gratifying (when it works and especially when you get paid to do it!).
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