DDW - S2 Ep 08 – When Money Gets Between Your Writing and Hiring Professionals

In this episode of Doing Diversity in Writing, we—Bethany and Mariëlle—take a pause to talk about what to do when hiring professionals to better your writing is not an option (yet).    What we talked about That there’s privilege in being able to advice others to do it right or not do it at all That not everyone has the same resources going into publishing their work What options are out there for authors with limited or no budgets (Re)sources mentioned on the show “The different kinds of editing explained” by Mariëlle: https://mswordsmith.nl/editing-tips-tricks-different-kinds-editing-explained The Salt & Sage Books Incomplete Guides: https://books2read.com/ap/8Vy9vl/Salt-Sage-Books The Writers for Diversity Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/779217692216226 The Writing the Other website: https://writingtheother.com Writing the Other: A Practical Approach: https://writingtheother.com/the-book CritiqueMatch: https://critiquematch.com Scribophile: https://www.scribophile.com Mariëlle’s 52 Weeks of Writing Author Journal and Planner: https://mswordsmith.nl/journal   This week’s episode page can be found here: https://representationmatters.art/2022/03/10/s2e8/   Subscribe to our newsletter here and get out Doing Diversity in Writing Toolkit, including our Calm the F*ck Down Checklist and Cultural Appropriation Checklist: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/r3p6g8    As always, we’d love for you to join the conversation by filling out our questionnaires.    Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Writer Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/UUEbeEvxsdwk1kuy5   Our Doing Diversity in Writing – Reader Questionnaire can be filled in at https://forms.gle/gTAg4qrvaCPtqVJ36    Don’t forget, you can find us at https://representationmatters.art, on https://www.facebook.com/doingdiversityinwriting, and on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHfIaeylIgbAWVy3E66lmw