Christine Gilbert

Writer, photographer & filmmaker

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On My Blogging Course: Blog Brilliantly

Posted on Jun 30, 2012 in On Blogging

I’ve been meaning to write about the course I’m teaching, but I’ve been so busy, I keep putting it off. Why another blogging course? I have had this growing feeling over the years that the kind of blogging advice that’s available out there – either for free on places like problogger.net or copyblogger.com or at a price like...

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Why I Won’t Freelance Anymore

Posted on Jun 30, 2012 in On Travel Writing

I’m closing out the last open invoice I have as a freelancer, after four years of trying to make it work.  They promised payment on Monday.  We’ll see. Here’s why I’ll never do it again.  It takes me so much time and effort to chase down payment that it’s not worth it.  The rates are low, the work is fast turn-arounds and...

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Life is crazy.

Posted on Jun 12, 2012 in Personal Updates

This is the most surreal time of my life.  All these projects that I have been working on for YEARS are coming together right now. I’m writing a book. I’m learning Arabic. Drew and I are making a FILM!! It’s been since 2010 and it will be done in three months. I’m teaching a course on a platform that I really love. I’m living...

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Vimeo Video School

Posted on Jun 8, 2012 in Things I Love

It’s free.  It’s pretty comprehensive.  Digging through the archives now.  Great place if you’re just starting out too. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrint

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Beyond making money blogging

Posted on Jun 6, 2012 in On Blogging

I was recently quoted in a piece over on travelllll.com Why your travel blog isn’t making any money and how to change that and I think it’s a pretty well-reasoned piece. There was one thing I thought of, after reading it, that I had wished I had said to John when he contacted me. It’s a short story: In 2010, I went to TBEX (travel...

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