*chuckles* Over here the emphasis is on "objectivity" in journalism, and bias is considered to be a high crime. It's still present, of course, but it's strongly frowned upon by most factions due largely to an american misunderstanding of the role of journalism as that of the disinterested spectator. Detatched writing is actually considered to be a good thing by american journalistic standards.

I may start writing more... but probably not professionally yet. I'm not entirely sure what the "Writers' & Artists' Yearbook" is, but if it's a market listing our equivalent is Writers Market and I have the 2002 copy of that. If I do decide to go into professional writing I'll definately make use of it, as well as online listings, but frankly I'm not sure what I would write about professionally. I could write some pagan stuff I suppose, and I have actual experience writing about geology and lapidary and other things of interest to people who collect rocks, but those are rather shallow markets. I have some other plans for making money presently that are somewhat less speculative than trying to build a freelance writing career, which is perilous at the best of times, so I think for now I'll stick to writing my essays and things here... hone my skills a bit more, and gather some material together. Then we'll see. I wouldn't mind writing some articles for pagan publications someday.