“I just keep producing high-quality work. That’s why I have 8,202 followers.”— Heather Havrilesky, theawl.comTagged: How to be a writer, humor, Twitter
“Always be super-polite and light-hearted with your editors, and never give them any indication that you’ve been waiting for a check for so long and your credit card balances are getting so high that your pulse starts racing every time you think about it, so much so that you’ve started to soothe your…”— Heather Havrilesky, theawl.comTagged: How to be a writer, humor, Freelance, Money
““HEY IS THERE A CHECK ON THE WAY FINALLY? LOL! THIS BIG GUY WITH A BASEBALL BAT AT MY FRONT DOOR WANTS TO KNOW! OMG MY KNEES! XXXOOO””— Heather Havrilesky, theawl.comTagged: How to be a writer, humor, Freelance, Money
“See how I was thinking about a smell? That’s how you know I’m a real artist and not some fucking hack who writes light verse for The New Yorker.”— Heather Havrilesky, theawl.comTagged: How to be a writer, humor