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]
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]
I love spreading some link love, and there’s no better way to do it than to thank all the people who stopped by (many of you several times) to comment on Get Paid To Write Online during November. If there are people you don’t know, check out their blogs. There’s some great writing there. [...] [...more]
How To Write A Meaty Article is the latest post on HopeWrites. It’s a meaty article itself, with lots of tips on getting the most out of the content that you write, including the list of article templates. It’s certainly worth reading. Also on my weekend reading list is Elance Alternatives For Ghostwriters. Elance has been [...] [...more]
Diversification is one of the secrets of a successful freelance writing career. When you find someone who will offer you work, it can be tempting to milk that lead for all it’s worth and do as much writing as possible for one client. While that may help in the short term, it’s a dangerous [...] [...more]
The Write For Cash blog has an interesting article on Grant Writing and Proposal Writing. I often notice clients looking for this type of writing on Elance and Guru. If you are interested in getting into this type of writing, then be sure to check out this post for an intro to the kind of [...] [...more]
I’ve been blogging for PayU2Blog for some time now and this is the biggie. The payouts are at the low end - $5 a post - but the work is regular and plentiful, and no blogger could ask for more. When I started blogging with PayU2Blog, I got all my opps by email once a [...] [...more]
These days, it’s all about being positive. For freelance writers, it’s about talking up your writing skills and abilities and proclaiming your successes to the world. We don’t often like to talk about failure (ewww - who needs all that negativity to bring you down?) And yet … ignoring or burying our mistakes is [...] [...more]
Jennifer Mattern of AllFreelanceWriting has a great article on Setting Freelance Writing Rates the Right Way. It’s easy for a freelance writer to say “I earned $50,000 at my old day job and I got by fine, so I want to set a goal to earn the same amount from my freelance writing full-time.” What’s harder [...] [...more]
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get discouraged when I send off queries and get no response. Even if you’re an experienced freelance writer, there’s no guarantee that the people offering the work will get back to you. But, as I’ve learned recently, just because you don’t hear anything it doesn’t mean that [...] [...more]
