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 […]
I’m always encouraging writers to charge more. This reflects my own experience of not charging enough for my writing for years. It was a problem of self-worth, etc.
But in the beginning most of us had to charge less and perhaps even under-earn to get started. It’s better, at least when starting a freelance writing career, […]
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 […]
In our forum someone asked how we sort through the job postings and decide which one’s to respond to. Turns out we each do this a bit differently.
For example, I’m not particularly looking for ads offering me the chance to write articles; I’m more interested in ghostwriting and substantial editing. I also don’t worry too […]
Over in our forum someone talked about a client who asked for something extra. The client was a non-profit; the cause the writer supported and the extra would take only an hour or two. The writer wondered if it was okay to charge the client for those extra hours.
It’s so tempting to get sucked in […]
I sometimes get frustrated with my ghostwriting clients. Often they want to spend time with me just talking – not about the book I’m writing for them, but about anything and everything. I’m coming to realize, and it makes sense, that at least some of them need a sense of connection with me that goes […]
Word reached me this morning of another site set up to accept bids from writers, editors, translators and the like – bids for work. It’s called BidFreelancers.com and it’s based in India. The English is, well, Indian. As near as I can tell, although freelance writers, editors and translators are part of the plan, the […]
Normally I write about ways to collect payments for writing from clients, but right now I’m pushing myself to write so I can get a payment. The payment on one of my ghostwriting projects says something like this: there will be 5 equal payments, each payment to be made when an additional 20% of the […]
We’ve had some discussion about low pay jobs and even a Freelance Manifesto which attempts to address low pay problems for writers.
One of my job sources, Online Writing Jobs, lets employers post jobs on their own. They offer several categories, including high pay writing jobs and low pay writing jobs. Although most of the $2 […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Anne Wayman [email] for b5media.
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