WRITER’S LIFEGUARD: Saving the Chron

By Jules Older, inde­pen­dent colum­nist For bet­ter and worse, I tend to work on inspi­ra­tion, not prepa­ra­tion. Bet­ter because I drop every­thing except dead­lines and focus like a laser on the new project. Worse because I drop every­thing except dead­lines. When every­one around you is expect­ing a right turn, a sud­den swerve to the left […]

WRITER’S LIFEGUARD: Show Me the Money

Editor’s note: Our most pro­lific Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists mem­ber is def­i­nitely Jules Older, who shares my last name, but not my genes. We ran one of his Writer’s Life­Guard columns titled “Don’t Let the Bas­tards Rip You off” August 12, 2010. (Just check our archives.) These two columns deal with the same sub­ject: what free­lancers can […]

The Story of Prohibition… in Napa

  Editor’s note: Jules and Effin Older (no rela­tion to me) are ded­i­cated Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists mem­bers. They have had suc­cess­ful careers as children’s book authors and travel writ­ers. We all hope they will make sub­stan­tial money doing those things again. For now, though, they have rein­vented them­selves as iPhone/iPad app cre­ators (in the iTunes store: […]

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