Freelance Writing Quick Startup Guide I got a question on Google+ about getting started as a freelance writer. I felt like being helpful this morning, but as I typed my answer I realized it wasn’t really suitable for a G+ post. So, I copied it over here and then finished it out. Consider this the [...]
I’ve started getting more and more requests for information on how to get started in freelance writing. So, I thought it might be time for me to write a guide to getting started as a freelance writer. How To Become a Freelance Writer Get a piece of paper to take notes, because this is going [...]
A professional freelance writer needs many different ways to find new clients. The idea, of course, is to keep a healthy network of connections that can send prospective clients your way and keep that writing project pipeline full. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done, which is why there are shelves of books about networking [...]
I’ve gotten some questions recently about setting up a home office for a freelance writer. Truthfully, there isn’t much different about a freelance writer’s home office than most other home offices. Basically, you’ll need a computer, Internet access, a phone, and a printer. Those are common to just about any home office. There are a [...]
When you work in a typical office job, you just call in sick when you have an emergency pop up in your life. Your co-workers pick up the slack, or your projects get put on hold. If you are a salaried employee, your pay continues like nothing happened. When you own your own small business [...]
Windows Live Writer was a surprising free utility offered by Microsoft as a way to post to multiple blogs with many of the modern conveniences of more powerful software like Microsoft Word, which the company killed off as a legitimate way to blog by having it produce garbage-filled HTML code. I still haven’t bothered to [...]
Managing your time as a professional properly is never easy. There are always temptations to distract your focus from the work you should be doing. Whether it’s the monthly birthday party in the break room, too many trips to the water cooler, or just a talkative coworker, making sure you manage your work time properly [...]
If you are reading this freelance writing blog, I hope that you are either pursuing a writing career as a freelance writer – or otherwise – or that you are interested in writing better. Although there are many professional writers who become writers and stay writers without traveling down any of the various literary forks [...]
Although it was not my intention when I started writing a blog for freelance writers and businesses who hire freelance writers, a lot of the new readers here at the ArcticLlama freelance writing business blog come from people searching for advice on where to write online for money. In particular, people search to find out [...]
Over the past couple of years I have flirted with writing for various online publishing systems. I never really go the hang of Squidoo (or I did and just didn’t like it), but I have writer accounts on several other online publishing websites. Some of those accounts have gotten a lot of attention at one [...]
One of the things about being a freelancer that many people don’t really appreciate, is that it can be very hard to take time off. While everyone understands that a freelance writer, or any other contractor, only makes money when the work (and bill hours for projects), most people have a little bit of difficulty [...]
