10 Best Reasons to Be a Freelance Writer

So it’s spring and we’re just on the verge of summer. The weather is warm, it’s beach time, picnic time, barbecue time and the possibilities are wide open. It’s a great time to be a freelance writer.
How much do I love freelancing? Let me count the ways…
Top 10 Reasons to be a Freelance Writer
1. Make [...]

Is Freelance Writing Only a Work From Home Job?

My friend Anne Wayman at About Freelance Writing only posts what she calls the “true” freelance writing jobs. Anne feels that if you can’t do it in your bunny slippers, it’s just not freelance. As much as I respect Anne and what she does, I have to beg to differ. I feel a freelancer is [...]

What Should Your Freelance Writing Client Do?

I don’t remember the exact wording, but there’s a saying about how you can’t judge a person before you walked a mile in his shoes. The same theory should be applied to your clients. I often hear tales of difficult to please clients, only to learn there are two sides of every story.
Lets play a [...]

If You Give a Freelance Writer a Low Paying Job

by Deb
If you give a freelance writer a low paying job
She’s going to ask for more to make ends meet.
When you give her more, she’ll probably work ten hours a day.
When she’s finished she’ll realize the $60 earned won’t be enough to buy the weekly groceries so she’ll ask for more even work.
As she’s writing [...]

Tech News Journalists Wanted

Looking for journalists to report for the tech news / p2p website Zeropaid.com. This site gets over 30,000 readers a day and is about to have a major overhaul. We are moving to the wordpress CMS and losing our chief editor at the same time, not the best scenario but leaves us with a clean [...]

Kill Fees – Not a Halloween Tale

By Terreece M. Clarke
For many writers it’s a bloody stab to the heart – the kill fee (cue scary movie scream). Writers are given a kill fee when a publication decides for whatever reason – change of direction, unusable article, etc. – not to use an article and instead of paying the writer the total [...]

Press Release Writing Intro

By Terreece M. Clarke
Press releases make up a nice little chunk of web writing and is good steady work if you are interested. Why? Because on any given day there are thousands of companies trying to catch the eye of the media and potential customers. Many of these companies don’t have a public relations team. [...]

You’re Hired! Don’t Blow It…

by Deborah Ng
As freelancers we know there’s no better feeling than knowing we were chosen to do a job out of dozens, if not hundreds of applicants. Something about our writing styles set us apart from the rest, and that has us walking upon air.
With some writers that pleasure is short-lived. Even though landing the [...]

Got an Angle, Give an Angle – Need an Angle, Take an Angle

By Terreece M. Clarke
Ever have an article topic that has been written about so many times you can’t see any new way to cover it? I have. This is especially true for evergreen topics. While evergreen topics are promoted because of the their timelessness and consistent audience, they can become a writer’s block trap for [...]

There’s Rejection and then there’s REJECTION!

By Terreece M. Clarke
I forget where I read it, but some writer once said that 9 times out of 10 your article pitch is going to be rejected. So, in essence, live for the 10%. While a bit pessimistic, the overall sentiment is right on. Rejection is as much a part of freelance writing as [...]

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