by Terra Osterling | Feb 25, 2022 | Business of Freelance Writing, Uncategorized
– Me, November 15, 2010 Those words opened my first blog post. If ever a life had a turning point, for me it was then. That post kicked off a run of publishing a weekly blog post for a full three years. (Count ‘em – that’s 156 consecutive weeks, 156 posts. And they’re...
by Terra Osterling | Mar 10, 2016 | Business of Freelance Writing, Outside my comfort zone, Storytelling
One week ago today, I stretched way out of my comfort zone by participating as a vendor at the annual Women of Focus Trade Show. The one day event was the culmination of four months of expending time and money to prepare for my first big trade show. Why would a writer...
by Terra Osterling | Dec 15, 2013 | Books and Reading, Publishing, Storytelling
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. A little more than 550 years ago, a metal-smith, a gem cutter and the owner of a paper mill collaborated on an invention that changed the world. The Gutenberg Press ushered in a paradigm shift in sharing information –...
by Terra Osterling | Nov 3, 2013 | Business of Freelance Writing, Finding the artist in me, How I got "here", Old jobs
The phrase ‘screen time’ is in the Oxford dictionary: Screen time: noun : the time allotted to or occupied by a particular subject, actor, etc., on film or television: these characters deserve more screen time : time spent using a device such as a computer,...
by Terra Osterling | May 19, 2013 | How I got "here"
Today began different than a usual Sunday, with the first flutter of eyelids. We were sleeping in — a glorious sleep-in on a Sunday, unheard of since I started going to church 7 years ago. The Husband has been up late nearly every night for the last three weeks...
