Freelance Writing Experience: Does it Matter Where Your Clips Come From?

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Credit where it’s due: A few days Jodee Redmond wrote: “Will Taking a Low Paying Hurt Your Career.” Jodee’s post is the inspiration for this one.
Disclaimer: This post isn’t encouraging writers to accept low pay, it’s merely a discussion of whether or not your low paying past will hurt you when you apply for [...]

Freelance Writing for Beginners: Step 2: Setting Your Freelance Writing Rates

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Freelance writing rates are a very personal thing. No other topic breeds as many debates between beginning and more advanced writers. No other topic pits the content site writers against the journalists. If there’s a discussion regarding rates, be prepared for the controversy that will follow. We couldn’t do a series for beginners without [...]

How to Make Free Writing Pay

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by Chris Garrett
I was having a conversation with Deb where we happened to get onto the subject of “low paying writing gigs”.
Woah, is that ever a controversial subject!
Well, I am going to drop a cup of kerosene on that particular fire and tell you why I often write for free and it is totally [...]

Placing a Value on our Freelance Writing Jobs

The other day I wondered about a livable wage. In that post, I wasn’t encouraging everyone to work at the minimum, just defining a term. When it comes to earning a living as a freelance writer, I believe there’s a big difference between just getting by and placing a value on our individual freelance writing [...]

Freelance Writing: What is a Livable Wage?

I just had the most wonderful day at the BlogWorld and New Media Expo talking to freelance writers from around the country. This is the first year I met so many people who were actually looking to break into writing in addition to blogging. I also met quite a few veteran writes with impressive backgrounds. [...]

Free Content: It’s All in the Wording

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Every time we talk about writing for free, there’s outrage. Writers from all over the web chime in to discuss whether or not one should pay dues by writing for free and most agree that unless it’s for a meganame magazine or charity, the other party is taking advantage by trading content for exposure.
Enter [...]

Freelance Writing Rates: When to Charge Additional Fees

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Before you send your client an independent contractor’s agreement or freelance writing contract, make sure to make it’s clear there are circumstances where you may have to tack additional fees to your original quote. While you want to be reasonable, you also want to make sure you’re adequately compensated for your work. Additional work [...]

The Best of FWJ:15 Blog Posts About Rates

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We have  a lot of gems in the FWJ vault. There’s over four years of discussion posts here, all geared towards helping writers further their careers. As I was away for most of this weekend and have a lot of catching up to do, I thought it might be a good idea to do [...]

40 Freelance Writing Markets Paying $100 or More (Much More)

I’ve been doing this for several years and every few months the same old arguments come up.  Two in particular stick in my craw. The first is that there are no “higher” paying writing jobs out there, and the second is that it’s unrealistic to expect new writers to find work above the abysmal paying [...]