Florida Creatives - Creating a Community of Innovation

I'm seeking work in the writing and editing industry. I have seven years of editorial experience with a proven track record of maintaining timeliness and adaptability. In my roles, I have written and edited a variety of materials—teacher user guides, student textbooks, web courses, health insurance-related marketing materials, literary magazines, alternative weeklies, college newspapers and an entertainment web zine—all while maintaining a specific style and adhering my work to the intended audience.

Do you know how important it is to write a well defined character outline?

As a fiction writer you have to breathe life into your characters. Remember that they are alive, they are breathing, real people. It is your job as a writer to give birth to these characters. Remember this, they never existed until you created them. That is what makes them real.

If you have questions about writing fiction you can reach me at baerspeak@aol.com. Jay

The first panel was posted today for the graphic novel version of Calling Home, a Twitter/Plurk story that ran in the last months of 2008. Posts will be regularly done on Mon, Wed, and Fri.

Come on by and take a look: Calling Home

Worlds of the Fantastic is a new Meetup group of speculative fiction writers (science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and their many sub-genres) who live and meet in the Orlando area. Have fun with us as we create strange new worlds, beings, creatures, people, and more. Grow with us as together we perfect our craft.

Please join us for our first Meetup on March 4th at the Boston Coffee House in Waterford Lakes. Further information on our group and the Meetup can be found on our Meetup page.

http://www.meetup.com/Worlds-of-the-Fantastic/

Location

Worlds of the Fantastic, an Orlando Speculative Fiction Writer's group, will be meeting at Boston Coffeehouse to have their first critique meeting of March.

Come and have coffee with us at 7:00pm. The critiquing session will start at 7:30pm. To join our meetup, please sign up at our meetup page here:

http://www.meetup.com/Worlds-of-the-Fantastic/

And then sign up for the meetup. If you wish to have something critiqued, make sure to submit it for other members to read before the meetup.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Hope to see everyone there!

Tampa/St. Petersburg area

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

The Content writer will work with .Com Merchants, .Com Producers, Buying, Planning, Programming, Merchandising, Marketing, Creative, Email and Broadcasting to create an engaging online customer shopping experience. He or she will participate and write direct response style copy including: store-related copy, feature articles, mini-sites, events, emails, vendor Bio’s and other promotional materials.

I love Social Media. I’m on at least five different services and spend way more time than I should on them, but I enjoy it considerably and have befriended many great people. With as much enjoyment as I get out of these services I thought it would be great if could combine together two things I feel passionately about: Social Media and Writing Fiction.

I have to step up on my platform, and call all of my Orlando pals to hear my speech regarding our "City Beautiful".

Location

The Brevard East Coast Creatives is a mashup of all sorts of creative, design, and code types of people whose business is working with businesses to help them communicate and brand themselves on the web or in print.

We welcome liberal hippies and young conservatives alike. We welcome geeky code monkeys as well as artsy graphic designers. We welcome suit-and-tie marketing experts as well as hip trendy brand identity creators. We welcome firms, employees of companies, and freelancers alike.

If you are community-minded and want to share ideas, experiences, meet the people working all around you in Brevard, then come hang out. No pressure. No forced presentations. No need to talk at all. Just listen. Or monopolize the conversation. We're small and really don't care either way.

Here I am again. Unmotivated, unsuccessful, unpublished, undesirable, uneducated, unmarketable, unemployed me.

I applied for at least 50 jobs online today. The only phone calls I got back were from the phone company who had to change my service for me because I can't afford frivolous things like Caller ID, some credit card collection agencies and my mother.