And the Winner of the Freelance Writing Jobs Photo Contest Is…

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At the end of August we announced a photo contest to find a new image for the Freelance Writing Jobs home page. We received many beautiful entries, it was hard to make a decision. So we put it to a vote.
It was really no contest:
So who was the winner?
Image number 7 taken by D.K. [...]

10 Marketing Tips for Freelance Writers

I was scheduled to give a talk last week about marketing for freelance writers.  The other presentations ran overtime, so I didn’t get a chance to speak after all. However, I still spent a lot of time during meals and recreation discussing the various ways freelance writers can market themselves. I learned marketing means different [...]

FWJ Mailbox: What is a Citizen Journalist?

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Deb’s note: I’m so bad about responding to email lately. To tell you I receive thousands of pieces of mail each week is an understatement. I’m going to try something new – responding to some frequently asked questions.
We see the words “citizen journalist” or “citizen journalism” often on user generated content sites.  A [...]

4 Tips for Approaching Freelance Writing With an Open Mind

Recently, I wrote about how times have changed for freelance writers. It’s not my place to say everyone has to embrace or even accept these changes. However, I feel I’m being realistic when I say things have changed drastically for writers in the past 20 years. We can waste a lot of time and energy [...]

85 Hacks to Help Your Freelance Writing Career

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In blogging years, FWJ has been around a long time – about four and a half years. That’s a lot of jobs and a lot of tips. As I was thinking about the evolution of this blog, I thought it might be handy to combine a lot of the advice given out here over [...]

More Ways to Interact with the FWJ Community

Many people have written in to ask when we’re going to put the forum back up. Sadly, that was lost in the great server crash of 2009. However, we’re working on a new and improved forum, one that should be up shortly. In the mean time, stop by our Freelance Writing Jobs social network on [...]

Postcards from LAX: More Notes from the Demand Studios Creator Conference

I’m sitting at LAX right now with roughly an hour left to wait before I fly. As I go through my email I’m blown away by how many Demand Studios contributors and community members are eager for news from this week’s Creator Conference. At first I wondered if it would seem too spammy to blog [...]

Greetings from the Demand Studios Creator Conference

This is NOT a sponsored post. No one is paying to write this post, I’m speaking from the heart.
I’m writing this from Santa Monica, where I’m attending a very unique event, the Demand Studios Creator Conference. I was invited to attend to learn more about Demand Studios, talk with the team, and meet the writers. [...]

Controversy vs. Community

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All this talk about community has me thinking…
Every time there’s a discussion regarding rates, content sites, web vs. print or another topic one can consider controversial, comments go through the roof. Some are respectful, others aren’t. While I do try to delete the most harmful and abusive comments, it’s true many people simply enjoy [...]

What is Community and Why is it Important?

After reading James Chartrand’s post “Screw Community,” I’m inclined to put up a “What is Community?” post. I’ve defined community and its importance many times at Kommein, but that’s a whole different niche and a whole different, well, community. So I decided to bring it up here as well.
In James’ post, he rants about bloggers [...]

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