Your Turn: What’s Your Definition of a “Good” Freelance Writing Job?

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Credit where it’s due: I’m writing this in response to a Skype conversation I had with Mark Narter, a friend and writer who doesn’t have a huge online presence but writes full time for a local business. Every now and then Mark pings me to talk about something I wrote and whether or not [...]

Please Welcome New Bloggers to the Freelance Writing Jobs Team

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Thank you to everyone who responded to last week’s call for bloggers. We received over 250 applications and I spent most of the weekend reading through them all. You’re all so talented it was very hard to choose. However, several applicants were no-brainers.
Please welcome three new bloggers to the Freelance Writing Jobs blogging team.
Carson [...]

48 Celebrity Book Authors

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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 [...]

Valentine’s Day Gifts for Writers

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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 [...]

The Freelance Writing Jobs Network Community Survey – Some Early Results

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I’m thrilled by the large response to our Freelance Writing Jobs network community survey. As I mentioned earlier, your feedback is what keeps us going. Telling us what you like and dislike tells us what we’re doing right, and lets us know which areas need improvement.
As this is your community, I thought I might [...]

Freelance Writing Jobs is Looking for a Blogger to Join Our Team

Life’s getting busy and I’m looking for a little help for the Freelance Writing Jobs blog. An experienced writer is needed to help pick up the slack right here on the homepage.
Topics to cover:

Pitching magazines and markets
Finding the high paying gigs
Networking and marketing
Setting rates
Negotiating pay raises
Topics to help freelance writers land lucrative opportunities.

If this interests [...]

Freelance Writing Jobs Presents: 18 Poetry and Writing Contests for 2010

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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 [...]

Blooks: 13 Blogs that Became Books

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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 [...]

How Freelance Writing is Like…

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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 [...]

What are You Reading…and Where?

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My Dad was a librarian. As you could imagine, our house was filled with books. I mean, floor to ceiling books. Our living room contained non-fiction and the more formal library was filled with fiction, including many first edition literary works. Upstairs in Dad’s office were the “stacks,” where he kept the periodicals. All [...]

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