Guest Post By Anne Wayman If you’re serious about freelance writing that means you also must get serious about the freelance writing business. By business I mean all the things that go on in addition to writing so you can make a profit and even a good living at your chosen profession. Since you’re thinking about getting seriously into freelance writing I’m going to assume you’ve at least started to make some money with your writing and you suspect you could make more if you knuckled down a bit. That means you need to pay attention to the two M’s [Read more…]

Your ability to write well may have very little to do with whether or not you’re going to make any money in this racket.

We all like to talk about quality, skill and art. We sell it to clients. We pride ourselves on the fact that we don’t produce crap and we have this little part of us that believes that our talents with words will be the reason we succeed.

I don’t think that’s really true, though. Writing talent is a plus, but it isn‘t necessarily a key determinant of success.

A common mistake made by many freelance writers is to treat what they do as a job. It’s not a job in the traditional sense of the word, it’s a business. It may not feel that way to you because you’re sitting down to work out of the comfort of your home or the nearest coffee shop, but it is. Instead of looking at freelance writing as a work at home job, pretend you’re a brick and mortar business. How would you treat things differently. How would you approach your “job” if you were the CEO of an organization. That’s [Read more…]