Comments on: How To Find The Right Freelance Websites http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/ freelance writing by a freelance writer that works in the freelance writing field Sat, 19 May 2012 09:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Monika http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-11666 Monika Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:33:12 +0000 http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/?p=1020#comment-11666 @ Kathy: Thank you! You are right though, life isn't always as easy as it seems and we all have to work hard for our success. To me, the whole effort is well worth it and every day when my hubby gears up for work - to be gone for 10 hours and more - I thank my lucky stars for having made the transition. My life is certainly success by my own design and I'm damn proud for having managed to get to this level. :) @ Kathy: Thank you! You are right though, life isn’t always as easy as it seems and we all have to work hard for our success. To me, the whole effort is well worth it and every day when my hubby gears up for work – to be gone for 10 hours and more – I thank my lucky stars for having made the transition. My life is certainly success by my own design and I’m damn proud for having managed to get to this level. :)

]]> By: Monika http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-11665 Monika Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:30:53 +0000 http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/?p=1020#comment-11665 @ Cath: In the end it boils down to how much we want a certain lifestyle I think. Many people dream of a career in writing but when push comes to shove they choose to stay in their miserable lives because they don't want to experience a drop in income for the time being. Anything that is hard always scares people off. @ Cath: In the end it boils down to how much we want a certain lifestyle I think. Many people dream of a career in writing but when push comes to shove they choose to stay in their miserable lives because they don’t want to experience a drop in income for the time being. Anything that is hard always scares people off.

]]> By: Kathy | Virtual Impax http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-11646 Kathy | Virtual Impax Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:43:24 +0000 http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/?p=1020#comment-11646 Monika, Great advice - success by design!!! I'm sure many aspiring writers come here - see your blog and think this is "effortless". What they don't see is all the behind the scenes work and most importantly PLANNING!!! Think swans gliding across the lake. Above the surface - poetry in motion. Below the surface, furious paddling! "it is all about you and how you apply yourself to these job offers." No truer words were EVER spoken!!! Monika,

Great advice – success by design!!!

I’m sure many aspiring writers come here – see your blog and think this is “effortless”. What they don’t see is all the behind the scenes work and most importantly PLANNING!!!

Think swans gliding across the lake. Above the surface – poetry in motion. Below the surface, furious paddling!

“it is all about you and how you apply yourself to these job offers.” No truer words were EVER spoken!!!

]]> By: Cath Lawson http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-11640 Cath Lawson Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:48:49 +0000 http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/?p=1020#comment-11640 Hi Monika - this is sound advice. I don't understand why people have such a huge problem with a drop in pay for a while, if it's going to get them where they want. In my early twenties, I took a massive drop in pay to become a student nurse - I only received a bursary of £360 a month. that was in the early nineties, but it was still crappy pay, in comparison to what I'd received before. Almost any job would have made me a heap more money. And although I'm not a nurse now - the experience I need from nursing has contributed a whole heap to any successes I've had since. Yes I could have continued in my low paid office job and still been there now - getting reasonable pay but getting nowhere. Or I could have become a high class hooker (and it was tempting sometimes, when I was getting only £360 a month). But that wouldn't have got me anywhere either - nobody pays hookers much, once they're knocking on a bit. Hi Monika – this is sound advice. I don’t understand why people have such a huge problem with a drop in pay for a while, if it’s going to get them where they want.

In my early twenties, I took a massive drop in pay to become a student nurse – I only received a bursary of £360 a month. that was in the early nineties, but it was still crappy pay, in comparison to what I’d received before.

Almost any job would have made me a heap more money. And although I’m not a nurse now – the experience I need from nursing has contributed a whole heap to any successes I’ve had since.

Yes I could have continued in my low paid office job and still been there now – getting reasonable pay but getting nowhere. Or I could have become a high class hooker (and it was tempting sometimes, when I was getting only £360 a month). But that wouldn’t have got me anywhere either – nobody pays hookers much, once they’re knocking on a bit.

]]> By: Monika http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-11637 Monika Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:48:29 +0000 http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/?p=1020#comment-11637 @ George: You're doing exactly what I did when I started out and within 7 months I was going full time. No doubt you will too at the rate you are going and it just shows that "plugging away" does work. Keep up the great work, you are doing the right thing - one step at the time. :) @ George: You’re doing exactly what I did when I started out and within 7 months I was going full time. No doubt you will too at the rate you are going and it just shows that “plugging away” does work. Keep up the great work, you are doing the right thing – one step at the time. :)

]]> By: Tumblemoose http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-find-the-right-freelance-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-11636 Tumblemoose Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:05:26 +0000 http://www.thewritersmanifesto.com/blog/?p=1020#comment-11636 Monika, True words. Folks want instant gratification and high bucks. It will be there, one day. It will come. Have some patience and do what you love to do, everything else will fall into place. Understand you will not achieve "stardom" overnight. It's kind of funny. My writing services business is one week shy of six months old. Common wisdom says six months is kind of a milestone mark when things will start picking up. And the last three days has been remarkable for that. I don't think I'm doing anything different - just pluggin' away as usual. Thanks for the gentle reminder. Sage advice. George Monika,

True words. Folks want instant gratification and high bucks. It will be there, one day. It will come. Have some patience and do what you love to do, everything else will fall into place. Understand you will not achieve “stardom” overnight.

It’s kind of funny. My writing services business is one week shy of six months old. Common wisdom says six months is kind of a milestone mark when things will start picking up. And the last three days has been remarkable for that. I don’t think I’m doing anything different – just pluggin’ away as usual.

Thanks for the gentle reminder. Sage advice.

George

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