Oliver Wang on music-writing freelancing:
...I mean, your writing has to be good, but even better has to be your hustling skills*. Every week, you have to know what you’re pitching, know who you’re pitching to, and always have things that are in motion out there. And I think with some people’s personalities, they can work like that, but for me --and I think this is like a lot of freelancers -- you’re going through these flood-drought cycles, where you’re writing way too much within a two-week space, and then you decide I don’t want to pitch anymore because I’m overburdened. But then you don’t write for two weeks and you realize you’re not going to get any checks off of that. You pitch again and it starts all over again. It’s not a very healthy way to live...
via the MPR.
(*So, so true. I sometimes think I annoyed my way into a number of my current outlets)
I'm in the drought phase right now. Next up on my list of for-sure-get-paid pieces is short previews on Deerhoof and the Chop Chop. I'm still looking into some other ideas, but I start semester 3 of grad school next week, so we'll see...
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