What Every Freelance Writer Needs To Know About Taxes

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by Thursday Bram
If you’re making the switch to freelancing, it’s easy to miss some of the details that go along with completing your taxes. There are some major differences in the paperwork if you’re working for a company or if you’re self-employed. While there are plenty of ways to save money on your taxes [...]

A Freelance Writer’s Guide to Twitter

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Twitter is an essential resource for freelance writers. At first considered a fun little social networking site, Twitter now reaches far beyond your average social networking forum. In fact, next to the blog, many feel Twitter to be the most important social networking/social media tool for freelance writers.
Knowing how to use Twitter to your [...]

When an Error Goes to Press

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by Dawn Allcot
Famed freelance writer Debbie Ridpath Ohi (aka @InkyElbows on Twitter) recently tweeted: Only lazy writers assume “an editor/agent will fix it.” ALWAYS aim for your best work.
I agreed, posting that it’s not an editor’s job to clean up messy copy — a point I wrote about at my first post here at [...]

6 Ways Freelance Writing is Like Halloween

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Halloween and freelance writing are two totally different entities but they’re more alike than you think. For example, the effort always pays off.
Getting into the spirit of today, I give you:
6 Ways Freelance Writing is Like Halloween
1. You have to act quickly or you’ll miss out on the full bars: There’s always one house [...]

Why Every Freelance Writer Should Switch to the Dvorak Keyboard

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by Heath Gordon
The Dvorak keyboard is a keyboard layout that will save you time and prevent repetitive stress related injuries. I’ll help you get started, but first, a history lesson:
The QWERTY Keyboard was specifically designed for the typewriter, eliminating jams, but limiting the typing speed. In 1932, realizing there were [...]

How Long Does it REALLY Take You to Write an Article?

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Credit where it’s due: Just got done reading Laura Spencer’s “Writing Thoughts vs. The Five Minute Article Writer.” It has me thinking a lot about article writing and what goes into writing a good article.

Can you write an article in five minutes? Me either. How about 30 minutes? Yes, sometimes. You see, I used [...]

Free Stuff for Writers: All Freelance Writing Releases Two Free Word Trackers

I’m always interested in cool stuff for writers and Jenn Mattern at All Freelance Writing has outdone herself. She’s released two free wordtrackers just in time for NaNoWriMo. The first word tracker is set up to track progress towads a writing goal. It’s easily customizable for blogs and websites. The second word tracker goes beyond [...]

Freelance Writing Job or Freelance Writing Hobby?

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When I was at BlogWorld a couple of weeks ago, I got into a discussion with a few members of the freelance writing jobs community. The discussion had to do with the types of freelance writing jobs and whether or not they were for everyone. The answer, of course, is that not all jobs [...]

Top 10 Ways Freelance Writing is Like Working Out

As I was I doing the morning dog walk, it occurred to me that freelance writing is a lot like working out. We don’t always want to do it, but the rewards are plenty. As I thought about it a little more, I realized freelance writing and working out have more in common than we [...]

How to Be a Grant Writer Part 2: Never Write a Grant “On Commission”

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by Lisa Jo Rudy
I once wrote a grant that won $4,000,000. If I’d earned a 10% commission, I’d’ve been a wealthy woman.
I didn’t. I was paid a nice fee, but no commission.
The reason was simple: professional grant writers don’t earn commissions. They are paid fees.
So why, you may wonder, do so many online ads [...]

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