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 [...]
As a writer I may be overly sensitive to improper or incorrect word usage. Everyone uses slang and improper grammar when speaking. Your inflection, speech patterns, and pauses between words can convey meaning and intention. When you split an infinitive or otherwise mangle a sentence while speaking, the listener generally knows what you mean anyway [...]
As someone looking to hire a freelance writer, one of the first questions you may have is how much does it cost to hire a professional freelance writer? The odds are that the answer won’t be as straightforward as you would like. How Much Freelance Writers Charge Hiring a freelance writer for a writing project [...]
As the end of the year 2010 approaches, there are several things on the minds of most freelancers, small business owners, and professional writers. However, one of the things that might be getting lost in the shuffle is the unfortunate reality that the 2010 tax year is quickly coming to a close. I’m going to [...]
Most professional freelancers take advantage of their freedom from being chained to a desk in an office somewhere by working remotely from a variety of locations. Your average freelance writer certainly has some sort of home base. A home office tucked away on the lower level of the house serves as my “corporate headquarters.” That [...]
I’ve talked many times about how writing faster, coupled with getting paid on a project or assignment basis, is the quickest way to increasing what you earn as a freelance writer. There are a lot of ways to write faster. The first, of course, is to write shorter length articles. When a client asks for [...]
I run a freelance writing business out of a home office. In many ways I have everything that a more typical corporate office has. I have phone lines, internet connections, printers, computers, fax machines, copy machines, scanners. lights, chairs, desks, file cabinets, and so on. I just have less of them. On the other hand, [...]
I try not to talk as much as I used to about how much freelance writers make. It is one of those debates that is easy to get sucked into, but where no one ever changes their mind no matter what someone else says. I try to keep an open mind, though and am always [...]
If you are going to earn money writing online, you are going to need a website. If you are going to have a website that attracts enough attention from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Altavista, and others to actually drive any traffic to your website, you are going to need a blog or other section of your [...]
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 [...]
