The week of June 1st is an excellent time to review your writing business.
I start by looking over the Vision that I created for my business at the beginning of the year. Next, I review my goals.
I want to know if I’m on track, ahead, or behind. I also want to update both the […]
Sharlene Thomas, BellaOnline’s Career Training Editor has an excellent article called Every Freelancer Needs a Contract.
She’s so right. I can’t count the tales of woe I’ve heard over the years from writers who had no contract or letter of agreement and lost money as a result. Early on I had the same experience myself.
Sharlene goes […]
You answer an ad and they respond, telling you they love you and they have a ton of work coming. Visions of dollars dance in your head.
You sign a contract for $x a month, and for the first month or two, payments arrive promptly, and then stop. All your efforts to contact the client end […]
We freelance writers and editors can sometimes seem obsessed by our pay. It’s not, I think, because we are more mercenary than those with jobs, but the irregular nature of our pay checks provides lots of space for confusion.
Sharlene Thomas, writer, forum member and host of Bella Online’s Career Training site has a great article […]
One of the challenges with ghostwriting is timing projects in such a way that payment is more or less smooth. I try to set up monthly payments when I contract for a book, and that works, except when it doesn’t.
For example:
One of my contracts needs to be renegotiated because conditions changed. I won’t know […]
Many of you know that I’m taking a class with Mark Silver, of Heart of Business. A major part of this class is defining or redefining our business. It’s been fascinating. Here I thought I knew what I was doing. Instead, I’ve gained a whole new understanding of my clients and what I offer them.
Like […]
Late last year I had a face-to-face interview with a potential client. He wanted his story ghostwritten. We did a Visioning, for which I was paid and I promised to draft a contract.
The following day I send the contract draft, answered some questions and pretty much figured we had a deal. There was a delay […]
Several days ago, Lisa Gates, writing coach and creator of Design Your Writing Life, commented about creating a writing plan. I asked her for more information and she responded with this:
Thanks for the invitation to blab, Anne, and I think you probably do have a plan…I just may not have phrased things very well.
If you […]
A little over three years ago I took on the task of getting clear about my income and expenses. I’d actually lived my adult life in what might be described as total vagueness about my money.
The results of these efforts have paid off handsomely. I’ve been able to increase my freelance rates and am approaching […]
Much of my writing is, as most of you know, ghostwriting. That means, among other things, I write, send it to the client and wait for their response. At the moment I’m waiting for a client to get back to me.
Last I heard, which was last week, he expected to get several chapters edited and […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Anne Wayman [email] for b5media.
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