From time to time I’ve tossed out some of my ideas about how to run a freelance writing business. One of my key concepts for starting a successful freelance writing small business is that you have to be able to fill in those time periods where the business does not have enough freelance writing projects [...]
Every year, thousands of people start down the path of becoming freelance writers. Some of them "make it" and become full-time freelance writers, some of them keep their old job and become part-time freelance writers, and some people take on a project or two and then drop out completely. Regardless of what type of freelance [...]
Let me be clear, anyone who copies words from anywhere, including a website, and uses them somewhere else, without permission is a thief, and that thief has stolen something just as surely as a burglar steals a T.V. There are no exceptions. Plagiarism is ugly. The people who commit plagiarism are thieves. They are unethical, [...]
Experienced freelancers know that they can’t just book their calendar solid. But, how do you fill in the gaps when you could be writing more?
Does the Firefox plug-in still have what it takes to serve the professional writer?
Want to increase what your freelance writing is worth? Stop explaining, and start doing something.
People always ask me what the hardest thing is about being a full-time freelance writer. When they ask, I usually think about it for a second or two and come up with something about keeping yourself on schedule, or finding new clients, or marketing yourself. Sometimes, I might mention that some topics can be pretty [...]
I am a writer. I always have been but I pretended to be some other things along the way like a systems administrator and a financial planner. Somewhere along the line I got it into my head that I had to have a “real” job in addition to being a writer, the way aspiring actors [...]
So, my experiment with automatic tweets via the TweetSuite plug-in hit a bit of snag recently. My Twitter followers aren’t huge, but enough to make it worth while. I’ve been auto tweeting my WordPress posts over to Twitter for a while now, so it would seem that no one is too offended or put off [...]
You can make money writing online, but unless you want to put the time and effort into actually building up your own writing business, you’ll have to do it just right. One of the keys is getting the length right.
