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With the growing popularity and use of the Internet, more and more people are sitting at their desks thinking: I could do this from home. Fortunately, company owners are also starting to realize the fact that many jobs can now be done at home through the Internet. This is especially true for writing gigs. This is known as telecommuting, and for those who have landing a telecommuting job, home can really be anywhere in the world.
Thursday Bram wrote a wonderful ebook about something we’ve been discussing here for years. Freelance writers absolutely can make an excellent living earning passive income. That is, earning an income with your own stuff over time. The ebook is called “The Freelance Writer’s Guide to Passive Income” and is chock filled with tips and ways to earn money from ebooks, courses, blogs, niche sites and more. The biggest benefit to earning a passive income is that you’re keeping everything your projects earn and eventually you can let go of client gigs. Thursday’s ebook discusses how to find time to create [Read more…]
Every day at the Freelance Writing Jobs Facebook page we share tips and have a little fun with words. We discuss our pet peeves or share hints for freelance writing success. We even have fun with writing prompts. If you’re on Facebook and you’re not “liking” us, consider joining up. Today our community is writing a one paragraph story and the winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift certificate. Even if wordplay isn’t your thing, stop by and visit with the 2,300+ members of the Freelance Writing Jobs community. They’re a great bunch and ever so helpful. Be there or [Read more…]
I know. I know. Despite about a kajillion email reminders and Twitter prompts, we still haven’t announced a winner for our Freelance Writing Jobs Limerick contest. The truth is, we chose one a couple of weeks ago but things have been so crazy we’re just annoucing today. And the winner is…. (drumroll…) Marvin Rabinovich who wrote this fun ditty: You should realize my lance is not free, And for writing I must charge a fee. It’s by meeting your deadlines I keep off the breadlines, So please pay your part-time employee. Marvin, if you get to me before I get [Read more…]
Even though most word processing and blogging platforms contain word count tools, the truth is, they’re not always accurate or convenient. In a business where every word counts, being able to get it right makes all the difference. Today, I’d like to share a few free word count tracking tools with you. Hopefully they’ll make your life a little easier. WordCounterTool.com – Not only gives you your word and character count, but you can also take a typing test to find out your WPM. Wisgary – I love this word count tool because it not only counts words, it counts [Read more…]
A sampling of writing advice from Stephen King. Why not learn from the best? We’ve posted Stephen King’s advice to new writers before, but new and old members of this community will benefit from my posting it again. On what makes a good read:
Most freelance writers travel in the same circles online. We visit the same freelance writing blogs, chat in the same freelance writing forums and follow the same freelance writing “experts” online. This is a good thing as we learn, offer each other support and tips and find work via these wonderful online tools. Freelance writers shouldn’t limit themselves to only blogs about freelance writing, however. There are so many important resources that don’t focus solely on writing, yet still offer valuable information. Today’s writers don’t only need to write. We need to manage our businesses, market our services and network [Read more…]
As a technically challenged blogger I’m always interested in tricks and tools that enhance my bloggery and make it look as if I know what I’m doing. So when Brian Clark launched Scribe SEO , a tool geared towards assisting SEO idiots (like me) in optimizing their blog posts, I decided to give it whirl. Between you and me, I sometimes wonder how my blog achieved this level of success because I’m not an SEO maven and wouldn’t know a high ranking keyword if it reached up and tweaked my nose. My only experience with keywords and SEO, besides what [Read more…]
Let’s take a fun, but kind of related diversion. Last week we explored some celebrity bloggers who pen noteworthy blogs. It got me thinking about other famous creative types. For example, celebrity book authors. Now, I’m not talking about gratuitous, ghost written books. I’m talking about celebrity novelists, biographers and children’s book authors. They seem to be everywhere, don’t they? What’s discussion worthy about celebrity book authors is if they’re really writers (as in good writers) who arrived by their publishing contract through the same methods and channels as us little people, or if they were offered deals based on [Read more…]
Mr. Ng isn’t a romantic man. He tries, bless his heart, but he tends to err on the practical side. He’s never done the candy and flowers thing for Valentine’s Day and has been known to put spatulas in my Christmas stocking and paper shredders under the tree. It wasn’t long before I realized that the key to my happiness was a long, loving list. As in, “honey….this is what I want for whatever gift giving holidays are coming up this year.” Today’s list is for all the Mr. & Mrs. Ngs out there. Those of us who may have [Read more…]
I’m often asked why I don’t post writing contests. I actually do post them when the folks who run contests are kind enough to send me the details, and I also post a couple of contests each week in the Freelance Writing Jobs Community Newsletter. Generally, I don’t look for writing contests on a daily basis as I do freelance writing jobs. However, if it’s writing contests you want, it’s writing contests you’ll get. Below is a list of writing contests. Some of them require a fee, and some of them don’t. I don’t know enough about writing contests to [Read more…]
A few years ago when my blog was beginning to create a buzz, someone asked me, “Why bother? Where will it take you?” Lady, you’d be surprised. Blogging can open so many doors. I actually wrote a short ebook discussing the places blogging can take you. Blogging is a marketing tool, an online portfolio and may even lead to much bigger projects, such as a book deal. The other day as I was watching Julie & Julia, I wondered if there were other movies about bloggers. My research didn’t turn up much and I ended up taking it in a [Read more…]
Over the past few years we’ve compared freelance writing to many different entities. For me it’s kind of a challenge to find off the wall comparisons. I’m going to issue that challenge to you today as well. What are some of the comparisons you can make to freelance writing? Tell us here in the comments, on Twitter or your own blogs. Let’s see what you can come up with. Since I’m busy compiling markets this week, I haven’t had a chance yet to do much real blogging. So we’re going with a greatest hits post this afternoon. How freelance writing [Read more…]
Are you reading our daily lists every day? If not, you’re missing out. Each day we list: The latest freelance writing jobs and opportunities New stuff from around the Freelance Writing Jobs Network Recommended reading from around the blogosphere. Every day look for the daily “Freelance Writing Jobs for ….” posts to find our daily lists. If there’s anything you think we should add, do let us know. We hope to share all things freelancing. If you visit the recommended reading blogs, do be sure to comment and let them know how much you like their stuff. Check it all [Read more…]
Something the Freelance Writing Jobs community always enjoyed and I haven’t provided for a while are our community creativity projects. We haven’t captioned or created one paragraph stories in some time. Let’s have a little fun today and let our imagination run wild. What do you think is happening in this image? Give us a caption, a paragraph or a brief story. Make us laugh or think. Let’s go beyond the obvious… Image courtesy of Newscomm.
I’m not a technical writer or reviewer and no one is paying me to write this post. As I’m technically challenged, I’m probably not going to use the right terminology and I can’t even really get really the nuts and bolts of how this thing works. Still, I want to tell you about my new Droid Eris and how it’s helping me as a freelance writer and professional blogger. I’m not a gadget girl I don’t usually post about new gadgets because, well, I’m not a gadget geek, I don’t buy the latest toys. mostly because I don’t know how [Read more…]
So I’m patrolling Twitter today looking for interesting tidbits to read and share, and I came upon something extremely interesting and useful: the Freelance Switch Rate Calculator. It’s a good one, it takes into consideration all your overhead and expenses, considers your profit and calculates your suggested hourly rate. The funny thing is, I actually spoke with a developer a few months ago about creating a rates calculator to post here at FWJ. I backburnered it to work on other projects and Freelance Switch beat us to the punch. Though I can kick myself, I’m happy to recommend this tool [Read more…]
I am NOT a Black Friday shopper. There is in way in Hades you’ll get me out of bed before 7:30 on the day after Thanksgiving, especially if it’s to battle crowds and fight over big screen televisions and Barbie Dolls. I worked in a mall. I know what goes on there. It’s not pretty. However, I do know there are some bargains to be found on Black Friday, many of them of interest to freelance writers. Here are few of the items I’ve come across that may appeal to you. Is it worth it to wake up at 3:00 [Read more…]
