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March 02, 2007
I Just Want to Be Loved, Is That So Wrong?
BostonNOW is a new free daily paper that's intended to be distributed much like the Metro, but with a predominately local perspective. To that end, they're asking for local bloggers and writers to come to a meeting next week, so they can pitch their plan and rally some enthusiasm.
Of course, not everyone loves this. The Universal Hub and Media Nation posts about this have several comments to the effect that BostonNOW is basically looking for free labor for their revenue-generating enterprise.
Well, I'm gonna go. When you're an amateur writer with big dreams and a wildly variable rate of productivity, you need the deadlines and the exposure more than you need the $10. (Though if anyone sends me $10, I won't send it back.) Even though BunkoSquad has been churning away on the K-list of blogs since 1998 (I started out on the B-list, but the number of blogs has really exploded in nine years), I still am at the point where I'm literally giddy for hours if someone mentions me or links to me (thanks Obscurorant!), and I worry that I'll never get better if I feel like I'm spinning my wheels and writing for the same audience of twelve that I had years ago.
So I'm going to check this out. We'll see how it goes.
(Post title from Jon Lovitz' Harvey Fierstein impression, if not from Harvey himself)
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Comments
Hey, I thought you liked this audience. Fine. Go stretch your horizons. Go find your loving crowds. If you wanna leave, take good care. I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there. But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware. Oh baby baby its ... a ... wait. I mean ... knock 'em dead, Micheal, knock 'em dead!
Posted by: Josh | March 2, 2007 08:09 PM
Hey Cat - if you convert to radical Islam in 10 years, you and I are gonna have words.
Posted by: michael | March 2, 2007 09:12 PM
You're quite welcome.
Posted by: Dan | March 5, 2007 02:08 PM
