Kurt Dillon
Bio
Kurt Dillon is an Author, Writer, Educator, & Chef with Master's Degrees in English/Journalism and Clinical Psychology from Columbia University. He has worked as a writer and as an Associate Professor of English for almost 30 years.
Stories (12/0)
Sometimes, The Writing Just Sucks
Preface If you are interested in actually becoming a professionally accredited author or writer, with a peerless portfolio of paid works, eligible to submit for the highest paying freelance gigs - and if you want to learn how to apply for those gigs and how to pitch and query the highest paying mass-market periodicals, literary agents and book publishers - you are going to want to read every word of this article, as well as the others in this series which are linked herein.
By Kurt Dillon7 days ago in Journal
How To Write For Big Periodicals
Preface If you are interested in actually becoming a professionally accredited author or writer, with a peerless portfolio of paid works, eligible to submit for the highest paying freelance gigs - and if you want to learn how to apply for those gigs and how to pitch and query the highest paying mass-market periodicals, literary agents and book publishers - you are going to want to read every word of this article, as well as the others in this series which are linked herein.
By Kurt Dillon7 days ago in Journal
Time to Pump The ABS — Umps — YOU’RE OUT!
Its time. We’ve waited long enough. For over 100 years, human umpires calling balls, strikes, fair, foul, safe, or out, were a necessary element of the game of baseball. Because they’re only human, we also had to accept that on occasion, they would make human errors and blow calls.
By Kurt Dillon7 days ago in FYI
Democrats Ramp Up The Propaganda
Ever since the failed ploy to influence the impending mid-term elections by having one of their minions working within the U.S. Supreme Court leak the initial draft of the High Court’s 98-page decision to overturn the oft-controversial 1973 decision in Roe vs Wade, democrats country-wide are reeling.
By Kurt Dillon7 days ago in The Swamp
Writers Are In High Demand — But You Won't Get There With Crowdsourced Publishing Advice
If you are interested in actually becoming a professionally accredited writer, with a peerless portfolio of paid works to submit for the highest paying freelance gigs, and you want to learn how to apply for those gigs and how to pitch and query the highest paying mass-market periodicals, you are going to want to read every word of this article.
By Kurt Dillon9 days ago in Journal
A Mother's Day Voicemail For The Ages
A truncated version of this story was published last month in the pub What Is Love To You? under the title: '12 Years Later, Still, I Love My Mom'. That dramatically shortened version was edited to fit within the parameters of a 600-word or less writing contest.
By Kurt Dillon12 days ago in Families
Read The Bill-It’s Here — Know the Facts of The Disney Debacle
To start, back in January 2022, a Judiciary committee for the State of Florida introduced House Bill 1557. The bill was also introduced as the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, and was recently sarcastically, (and incorrectly I might add) dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by Disney CEO Chapek.
By Kurt Dillon13 days ago in Education
My Candid 90 Minute Video Conference With The Founders of Simily
On April 26th, I received an email I wasn’t expecting. In fact, I had to check it closely because my first inclination was that it was spam. After all, I had only created a profile on the Simily platform about 3 weeks earlier. I couldn’t comprehend why a representative of the site would reach out to me and ask me to participate, let alone one of the platform’s founders.
By Kurt Dillon13 days ago in Interview
