I’m still working on the re-write of chapter ten. I didn’t get a whole lot done because I was busy with the blog and other things. One good thing is that there’s not a definite deadline for the book, but that’s also a bad thing because I don’t feel that driven to work on it and sometimes a deadline is a good thing to push you to get things done.
Another thing I didn’t do was my weekly video, so on facecrack I posted a link to the most popular video on my YouTube channel which is a curse-filled rant from a visit to Chuck E. Cheese back from when my friend Dan and I were doing pizza review videos. You can click on the picture below or right here to see that video.
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Chapter Nine: 1993: The Start of My Freelance Writing In New York City and My Interviews at People and Entertainment Weekly Magazines
The lunch went great and Dick told me to keep in touch and let him know how my interviews went. I went home and called my parents and they were just as excited as I was that in exactly a week since I had landed in New York City, I had gotten assignments from a weekly paper and two upcoming interviews at Time, Inc. Things were off to a remarkable start!
Sally called me the next day and gave me the interview dates for both People magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Both were about two weeks away in the first week of August.
In the two weeks before the interviews, I had gotten a movie review and an article featuring pushcart food in Central Park published in NY Weekly. Less than a month after landing in Manhattan and I was already a New York City paid published writer. Granted, I only got paid twenty dollars for the movie review and thirty-five bucks for the pushcart feature, I still got paid and could now boast that I was a professional New York City writer.
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There will be a new MBIP Sunday Links blog here on this coming Sunday, September 22, so I’ll see you all the day after tomorrow
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