Archive for June, 2010
The BIG List Of Places To Find Freelance Writing Work
If you are new to freelance writing you may wonder where in the world(wide-web) you can you find freelance writing jobs. It’s a good question, and you need to be prepared for a lot of trial and error. If you find something that works for you, congratulations! Don’t be afraid to look under a lot [...]
The Myth of Achievement
The most recent blog by Tumblemoose highlighted the need to keep your dedication to the writing cause alive and kicking. Advice of this sort is always timely. The writing profession is a rollercoaster. Successes and failures intermingle. We should all be accepting of this fact; a fact that permeates every aspect of our lives. However, [...]
How Dedicated Are You To This?
Is freelancing just a hobby for you? Did you decide to do this for just a bit of pocket change? If that is the case and you’re happy with where you are at, then good on ya. If your intention is make freelance writing your career then you should know that your dedication level for [...]
Show Me The Money!
It is usually the job of my esteemed colleague Tumblemoose to offer advice on how to increase your earnings from writing. I – if you hadn’t already noticed – simply like to whinge about all manner of writing-related shit. Today is going to be different. Oh yes. Today I am going to show you how [...]
The Enemy Within
It is not my intention to go off-subject here, but if writing is your livelihood, or something you take seriously regardless of remuneration, then there are other issues of importance besides how you put words onto a screen. Like how to keep your screen alive so it’s possible to put those words up there in [...]
Welcome To Freelancing, Your New Sales Job
When a lot of people think about a salesperson, they hold in their mind an image of the Sham-WOW guy, a geeky teenager hawking laptops at a computer store or maybe a slightly greasy person attempting to sell a used car. Freelance Writers may turn their nose up at these images, thinking, “Well, I’m certainly [...]
Gold Mining For Freelance Success
At first blush, you wouldn’t think that gold mining and freelance writing have that much in common. Well, this wise old forty-niner is here to tell you different. First you need to remember that being a gold miner is not the same as being a gold digger. Yeah, any of you gold diggers that choose [...]
Not a Ghost of a Chance
I have read with interest the posts from Tumblemoose about ghostwriting. Am I alone in thinking that ghostwriting is really odd? I don’t mean from the point of view of the person actually writing the material – it’s a paid job and that’s all you need to know – I mean from the point of [...]
A Ghostwriting Story – Part Two
In part one of this series, I introduced you to the genesis behind the securing of a ghostwriting contract. Part two takes us through a few of the trials and tribulations as the book progresses. I left off with the story being at about mid-stage in December of last year. The cycle worked like this: [...]
