A friend asked me the other day what my career plan was. It was a good question. Although I love what I do, and wouldn’t go back to working in an office, in another ten or 15 years, I would like my writing career to look very different. When you start writing, you often don’t [...] [...more]
Men with Pens is one of my favorite new blogs. It’s the successor to the Web Content Copywriting blog which I mentioned last year. Run by James Chartrand and Harry McCLeod, this is a writing blog with a difference. These guys really know how to write unique blog posts. It’s refreshing to read new [...] [...more]
How much time do you spend on writing each week? When you sit at your desk to write, is that all you do, or do you get distracted by other things. I’ll come clean and say that I am prone to distraction. In addition to writing/blogging, I also spend my time reading blogs, maintaining my [...] [...more]
A lot of the advice about freelance writing focuses on how to get started. You find out about creating a portfolio, getting published and promoting yourself. What you don’t hear as much about are the times when the shine goes off the writing life. We’re all human, and freelance writers can have bad days too. Those [...] [...more]
In my last post in this series I answered Rachel’s question about why I decided to freelance. However, wanting to go freelance doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea to just jump ship and do it. Rachel also asked: ‘Should a young freelancer like myself try to get a stable job so I can [...] [...more]
I’ve just completed a travel piece about a place I’ve never visited. It may seem a strange thing to do, but this was the commission that my writing client gave me. Usually a travel piece is full of local color, but how do you add that if you’ve never set eyes on the place? Researching The [...] [...more]
As a freelance writer, you can make your life a bit easier by planning the content that you write. It may seem easier to do a brain dump and write whatever comes to mind on a given subject, but that won’t help you to organize it in a way that makes sense. Planning does not have [...] [...more]
One of my blogging friends, Familyfunandfaith, has honored me with a ROAR award. Thanks, FFF. All I have to do is give three writing tips and name five more bloggers that deserve the award. So here are my tips: 1. The only way to get good at writing is to write. Practice makes perfect, so the [...] [...more]
There’s always a lot of debate in the freelance writing world about writing for free. The main question is: should you do it? Before I attract a hailstorm of criticism over the very notion of writing for free, let me say up front that I believe that freelance writers should get paid fairly and [...] [...more]
I love writing about writing, blogging and online promotion. In fact, I love those subjects so much, that I write on these topics for several sites. Following in the footsteps of Anne Wayman, Lorelle and others, I’ve decided to post an occasional round up of my posts on other sites, most of which are on [...] [...more]
