Freelance Writers - The Golden Globes Can Teach You How Not to Write a Query Letter

I watched some of the Golden Globes the other night. Good thing the honorees weren't trying to get freelance writing assignments.

"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying "flee at once - all is discovered." They all left town immediately."
Mark Twain

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Fast fact about writing

The contemporary important writing not of alphabetic type is that in Chinese characters, in which thousands of symbols are used, each representing a word or concept, and Japanese, where each character represents a syllable.