Re: Marketing Yourself

[Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

Thanks, I think you are on the money regarding the PhD. I believe why 
the MFA turned people away because it was an MFA in Writing and my 
thesis was short stories, granted they had a theme and ended up being 
published, but not something like John had that could leverage work for 
me given that it was fiction.

My concern is mostly this, a lot of my design work are ads, brochures 
and now this calendar that is going to be a pretty big deal, but I don't 
want to distract my Web site with Photoshop plastic surgery skills and 
brochures. I feel there is a dichotomy between that kind of design and 
TWing.

For example, I am writing a book on Poe which is a critical analysis of 
his stories. I tell people about it, but it isn't on my resume, because 
it is literary criticism writing instead of TWing. I have a book coming 
out next year that is fitness-related. That's not on my resume either. 
Do you think I should be putting that stuff on my resume?

Having never, ever in my life been captive my resume is a combination 
chronological and task oriented. For example, my skills are at the top, 
then the resume lists projects in order from most recent to the last 
within a four year time frame, which puts the resume over 4 pages. My 
problem is mostly that I do too many projects at once. I list project, 
system used and client. Perhaps my structure is off.

A free Web site is a great idea. That's exactly what I did when I first 
started out, did pro bono content writing and design. Sometimes you 
forget where you started :)

Michele

Goober Writer wrote:

...a small site for free. Something to get them on the web. Make the only