I dont know about you, but I sometimes have trouble thinking of my freelance writing as a business. I get caught in the creativity and, if not careful, can lose track of the details of my writing as a business. One of the most important and, for me, least interesting, details is tracking billable hours […]
11 New Freelance Writing and Editing Jobs
Freelance writers often ask how do I do a resume for my writing? My answer is, Dont do a credit list instead.
When youre looking for a full-time job, the prospective employer wants not only to know you have the necessary skills, but that youre likely to stay around […]
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I was uploading even more content to About Freelance Writing and came across an article I wrote titled, If Not Perfection, What?
Whew! That article details some writing and editing horrors that actually got into a book I wrote for a major publisher. And moving content from my old writing site to the new one has […]
With fair regularity I get questions about the sites that let writers bid on writing contracts. The draw, of course, is that you get a list of projects and you can search until you find those that match your skills. Its easy.
The major problem with these sites, however, as far as a freelance writer is […]
Yesterday, a member of my forum posted a link to Epic 2014, an 8 minutes long multi-media presentation that predicts one future of the news. It blew me away.
I grew up with radio and newspapers, both of which were then locally owned. It was easy to get multiple points of view and the news […]
12 New Freelance Editing and Writing Jobs
When I search for jobs to post I often run into listings that dont make it totally clear if the poster is willing to have the writer work from home or telecommute. When I cant determine what they want I have to guess, and my thinking runs something like […]
Yesterday, when I finally shut down the computer, I expected to wake up this morning and do some work on the ghostwriting project. Instead I came to with a ferocious headache feels like some sort of allergy. I felt better moving around so I turned on the computer and started fiddling.
Ive been looking […]
Ive been avoiding starting a ghostwriting project for over a week. In my own defense, the first day or two of avoidance I was sick a cold that ended with a migraine headache. Then I spent a day recovering, and another day catching up on email and doing the easy stuff. But the last three […]
PoeWar.com Writers Resource Center
John Hewett is amazing. Hes created a huge and useful site for writers of all sorts. I first found him looking for job postings for writers, and hes got those, both freelance and fulltime. But theres so much more.
He has sections on the craft of writing, articles ranging from overcoming isolation to […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Jenny Cromie [email] for b5media.
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