Comments on: Freelance Writing Jobs for Wednesday, January 23, 2008

By: Tisha

Tisha — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:21:11 +0000

Thanks for all of your help Yindra and Phil!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:49:31 +0000

Tisha,

I spent 13 years on daily newspapers. Those clips were all pre-Internet (yes, I’m ooold.). If I needed to use any, I would offer PDFs/scans. I have more recent work that’s online, so I offer links to that.

I don’t send PDFs without asking first because some aggressive e-mail security programs automatically reject attachments.

If that doesn’t work, offer to fax clips. There are programs that can take faxes and deliver them as e-mail attachments. Look into those.

Hope this helps.

By: Yindra

Yindra — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:18:14 +0000

Hi Tisha,
i’m also very new at this freelancing world. Less than 2 months actually. All your questions are really important and I would also like to know the answers. I think it would definitely be a good idea to dedicate a few posts to those details. I was reading today one of the articles from one of the sites of Link Love and it was very useful to me, it was very detailed on how to start blogging. So I can just wish you good luck on this blogging world that It’s very interesting and I want to thank again to this sites for all the helpful articles, links and jobs listings.
When I get my real Blog and everything I wish for, I’ll certainly advice people to come here for guidance

By: Tisha

Tisha — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:48:57 +0000

Hello! I have only ever written for a newspaper full-time and am very, very new to freelance writing and have never really done it yet. I don’t know if you have done this or not yet, but I was wondering if you could write a blog to help out new writers. I would like to know what are good clips to send to prospective jobs and what to send in a resume. Should we write only previous freelancing jobs in the resume or add regular jobs we’ve had? Also, how should we send the clips… as copies in Microsoft Word? Would it be better to make some sort of website and scan clips to the internet? I’m not really sure how to show clips that were published in the newspaper. If you could answer some of my questions, that would be great, or if you could direct me to a part of the website where you already had this discussion, that would be nice too. Thanks for your help, and good work with your website!

By: Erricka

Erricka — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:20:22 +0000

At least seven of today’s listings are on-site or require local residence. Are these accidentally getting slipped into the list, or are they intentionally included in case someone local to those areas reads this? I’ve noticed that sometimes when I click on an appealing ad, I then find out it’s on-site, or the company wants to meet with the writer/editor once a week in their office, or something like that.
Just about all of us are telecommuters, and I wonder how valuable these local-only gigs are to anyone here.