Recommended Reading – Freelance Writing Guide
I’m nearly at the end of my Freelance Writing Guide For New Freelancers series. There are only three more posts to go in the series including this one. The next series will be about freelance writing behind the scenes and give a more insightful view at my life and what I struggle with every day. It isn’t what you probably think either. But to find out, you don’t have to wait too long (hopefully), as I intend to get started with the new guide sometime next week.
Reading is an important aspect of any freelance writer’s business. Whether we read online blogs, websites, eBooks or books in print, I do believe it is best to have a good collection of useful resources to further our knowledge.
I’m a book worm in the best of times and always have been. My personal collection of books is strongly oriented by personal development books which are a remnant of my mlm days. Thankfully though I have discovered them and today I couldn’t leave without my daily dose of PD, regardless where it comes from.
So, in a shameless promotion I present to you some books that have helped me and continue to do so in my business. If you feel the need to restock your library, I would really appreciate if you’d use my link to show your appreciation for my work here on this blog.
I hardly ever use any monetary methods, because I believe in providing value to my readers by sharing my knowledge. Naturally, this is entirely up to you and there won’t be any hard feelings regardless what you do.
While not all these books are an absolute must, I believe some are, like the book Writers Market for example. It is the bible for freelance writers and will help you to suss out all the markets there are to build your writing business.
I hope you’ll get as much joy and satisfaction out of reading any of these books as me.
Thanks for reading my blog and visiting
Monika
About the Author: I'm a passionate freelance writer and problogger. To further build my business I'm also in the process of building my own niche empire which pays me residual income.
Akemi - Yes to Me | Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
I learned a lot from “Made to Stick” and highly recommend to anyone who write.
Steph | Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
Monika: nothing wrong with affiliate links and it’s no effort to click on one if I want or need to! I have quite a few of your suggested books and they are indeed relevant to your article, so I wouldn’t worry about the promotion. They are good references!
I like, too, how you cover several aspects of freelancing: writing itself, self-improvement, perspective, attitude, time management…all important to each other.
Thanks for this!
PS. I think the widgets may have loaded funny. There are two boxes and one long string of books, but they are the same books.
Monika | Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
@ Akemi: Thank you for the tip. I don’t know this book but got the link for everybody who would like to take a closer look at it http://www.madetostick.com/
Monika | Jul 29, 2008 | Reply
@ Step: I believe in balance and this starts with education. It’s like trying to piece together a puzzle I guess. We need all the pieces of the puzzle to fit the picture.
I’m glad you liked the selection since I value each of those books.
As for the widget, I’m not sure what happened but I think when I posted with WLW it threw some funny code up, took me ages to try to sort out and then I just got a new widget.