Are You Being Kind To Your Readers? is my latest guest post on PiggyBankPie. In it, I outline several ways of making your blog more reader friendly. It makes a good follow up to my previous post on How To Kill Your Blog. Related PostsBlogging As PortfolioRemember when I gave you reasons to get on the [...] [...more]
How long could you keep your freelance writing business going if you only had one hand? I’ve been finding out. It seems that tendonitis has robbed me of my right hand for the next week or so. It’s an occupational hazard for freelance writers, especially those of us who are virtually chained to our computers. It [...] [...more]
There are so many quality posts about freelancing that it’s hard to keep up with them all. Here are a few that caught my eye recently (ok, maybe not a few, but at least they’re all related). Chris discusses getting paid for freelance writing, providing his tips for success. Freelance Folder talks about meeting deadlines [...] [...more]
And I’ll say it again - promotion. No-one knows you’re out there if you don’t tell them, so you have to get the word out about your writing services and skills. If you’re stuck for ideas on how to self promote, there’s a mega list of suggestions at 120 Self Promotion Ideas for Graphic Designers [...] [...more]
I don’t write a lot of ads, but I had to do some research on ad writing for a course that I’m doing. While researching, I found The 10 laws of writing advertising. It’s an old article that’s been transferred to the net and has some good tips: Sometimes it helps to think of yourself as [...] [...more]
Someone said to me recently: ‘Freelance writing is not like other jobs; you never really get away.’ She was referring to the fact that I work at home, and it’s always easy to think about the jobs that are waiting for me - or to work instead of doing something social. But her comment [...] [...more]
If you subscribe to my newsletter, then you’ve already had a chance to see this post. It’s my latest for Writing White Papers, and it’s called. Keeping Fresh as a Freelance Writer. Being a freelance writer can be like living in a bubble. You communicate with everyone by email, IM and VOIP phone and the Google [...] [...more]
If you haven’t written your Christmas articles yet, then it’s probably too late, at least if you’re writing for print. Print publications work far in advance, so if you’re writing for them, you should start planning your Christmas articles in the middle of the year and should deliver them by September to October. Yes, there [...] [...more]
Starting a blog was the best move I ever made. It’s been a couple of years since I started my first blog and now I recommend the move to all new freelance writers. That’s because a blog is one of the best investments you could ever make in your writing career. Here’s why. Writing Practice First of [...] [...more]
Is It Time To Quit The Day Job?: For a lot of us, freelance writing starts out as something we do in our spare time. We write after doing a full day’s work, on evenings, weekends and holidays. We write because we must, because we feel an inner compulsion to see whether the thing we’ve [...] [...more]
