Risa 1-888-MY-ETHER ext. 01389457

Hey man, I am open for business and ready to rumble. I am an official Ether Beta tester, so you can now talk my ear off, or get my verbal input, or get me to read to you, for twenty bucks an hour.

My additional twist: I’d like to write up people’s stories. Have a story burning inside you? A piece of family mythology, an injustice you want aired, or a secret lost love you’d like to read about in poetry? For 20 bucks you can spend an hour telling me about it, and if I’m inspired I’ll write it up. We can decide if we want co-author credits, or if you want to be anonymous, or if you’d like to appear in the dedication, either way we can both be rights holders on the piece, which means we can both do what we want with it afterwards so long as we keep the credit we’ve agreed to. Notice: you don’t pay for the writing time, just the listening time. Get it off your chest and see what happens.

I feel a bit bad about charging for this. I get calls for advice, encouragement, and info all the time, and I love it, but am totally broke. Every phone call eats up about an hour of time and untold brain space (I tend to worry and think about other people’s problems for too long afterwards.) Often, a day I’ve set aside for writing will get ravaged by calls for help. I want to continue to give free help to folks in my neighborhood who need it, but to do that I need to get some more moola coming in.

Fortunately, there are diligent web workers out there who get the dilemma. Ether lets me set my rate and availability, so I can be in charge of my little phone-in business. They get their backend oumph from Skype and Ebay so I’m quite confident that it will be an efficient, professional service.
En tout cas- I’m going to give it a shot.

here are some other things you can call me for:

I am an experienced actor with a nice, confident reading voice. You can get me to read your material aloud to you and record it for your audio blog, or just to listen to how it flows while you are working on it.

I have directed theatre, and been the project manager for several different kinds of creative collaborations. I am good at offering ideas for how to resolve conflict between collaborators. I also have tons of ideas for how different creative projects could make use of the web and of social networks to take on new stages of life.

Working on an essay? I can help you flesh out a thesis statement and progression of arguments.

Working on some fiction? I can ask questions and insert ideas for story arcs and twists.