As I meander through who knows how many posting about writing and editing jobs, I sometime spot a trend.
Recently I’ve seen a number of ads saying, roughly:
We need content for our website.
We want to pay you, but… not until we’ve published several of your articles.
After we’ve published several of your articles, we’ll promote you […]
Leon Ho and Craig Childs, bloggers at lifehack.org (don’t you just love that name?) have posted links to Poynter.com’s 50 Writing Tools. I’d call them tips, but tools works.
It’s a surprising list in many ways. I mean, what should I make of “Branch to the Right.” No, it’s not a political statement, but a rather […]
Well, maybe it is about writing. After all, I have done an article called 6 Ways to Toot Your Own Writing Horn…
Anyway, I was surprised, delighted and even touched to discover the ACLU linked to one of the blogs I wrote yesterday called Shooting Fallout – Is This What We Want? The ACLU Insider blog […]
When you’re grinding away in a cube, collecting full time pay but hating it… when you’ve managed to have some success freelance writing in the cracks, it’s really tempting to quit and attempt full-time freelancing. So how do you make the decision? Here are some things to consider:
Do you know your real monthly nut? Your […]
Someone on our forum who both writes and designs pointed to no!spec.com. The post included a mild and reasonable rant about people who want designers to do a lot of designing on the theory they will get paid if the client likes it. I hadn’t even realized designers were asked to work that way, and […]
Freelance writers have many advantages, and a few challenges as well. One of the major challenges I face is the up and down nature of my income. Here’s my current approach to solving this problem:
Put aside at least 10% of every penny into an account I call Prudent Reserve. This is separate from the […]
Book length and other long manuscripts get unwieldy for a variety of reasons, including style. There are all sorts of small, but important style decisions that need to be made, like:
Do you want your em dashes to have a space around them or not?
How do you want quotes at the head of each […]
Just posted 46 new freelance writing and editing jobs. Which brings our total this week to 137 freelance writing and editing jobs.
Again as I page through the listings I’m struck by the number of full-time jobs for writers and editors. There are even a fair number of so-called freelance writing jobs that require you to […]
Time management is always an issue for freelance writers. On one hand, it’s tempting to sleep in, go to movies, hang out with friends and get little or nothing done – after all, there’s no boss telling us what to do.
On the other hand, it’s so very easy to overwork, putting in 10 or 12 […]
I started to title this something like “How easily I’m distracted from writing,” and then I realized that today at least there’s an actual pause in the writing I need to do. I am, after all, waiting on one client for two more chapters, which are promised today, but who knows. And I can’t do […]
Making good money as a freelance writer
Written by Anne Wayman [email] for b5media.
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