
Hey look it’s me on the left! Upwork recently featured me as a freelancer and hired me for their most recent conference in Vegas, where I wrote bios for anyone who stopped by and said hi 🙂

Cool, huh? I’ve written before about lessons I’ve learned as a freelancer, how I made my first $10,000 on Upwork, and my not-so-typical day-to-day as a freelance writer.
Anyways, it’s October and I haven’t blogged since I got back from Berlin. It’s also sPoOkY sEaSoN which means I have to go to Halloween parties thrown by actors who somehow have ENDLESS costume/wig/special effects makeup to the point where 1 actor friend could outfit all the dayplayers on an episode of THE WALKING DEAD and STILL have leftover digs for the cast of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD. (Sidenote: are people still watching these shows?)
And then there’s me, with a normal amount of closet space for LA, and all I have is like a potato and a broken crown to whip up into some sort of witty costume. What do I do with those? I… I just don’t know. (There’s a joke here, probably an offensive one related to the Irish potato famine, but I’m not a comedy writer. So.)
What are you being for Halloween? Let me know in the comments below or get @ me on Twitter. Would love to know, especially if your costume is more clever than mine. (Currently — it DEFINITELY is. Right now I have some really lame costume ideas. Maybe this will change when the onslaught of costumed carnivals start. We’ll see.)
Didya Know I’m a Ghost
As you all know by now, when I’m not in a writers’ room, I ghostwrite memoirs for fascinating people all over the world. It’s an intimate process that I’ve come to love, and I’ve met some truly inspiring people through this work.
Being a memoir ghostwriter means playing the roles of writer and investigative journalist: you need to ask the right questions in order to get the most vivid, compelling stories on the page.
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