Are you always fretting that you’ll miss a freelance writing deadline? Do you often procrastinate about even starting work in case the finished product isn’t up to scratch? Yeah, me too. I wasn’t conscious of it for a while, but…
Marketing yourself isn’t just a useful skill to have if you want to see any kind of success as a freelance writer – it’s an absolute necessity. Below are ten tips on marketing yourself as a freelance writer online –…
Be honest. Are any of these stopping you from becoming a freelance writer online? You haven’t started a blog on your website because you think nobody will want to read it. You have no social media presence as you think…
Once you’ve built yourself a healthy portfolio of work, it’s time to wean yourself off the low-paid writing work and instead attract some bona fide, high-paying clients. One way to do this is to write a regular blog on your…
If you’ve decided you want to become a freelance writer, sooner or later you’re going to have to work out how to build a writing portfolio and get clients. To get clients you need to be able to prove you…
I’ve never regretted the decision to quit my job and become a freelance writer. Not even when the initial euphoria and smugness of not having to get up early and drag myself into the office wore off. Not even when…
This is it. The ultimate list of the top 10 writing tips collected from around the web and beyond is here. (Click here for the two writing tips I totally made up.) 1. Write every day That’s right – I’m starting…
Becoming a freelance writer full-time means reading a lot of writing tips. When I first started out, I read everything, from blogs to books to the tiniest of tidbits on Twitter. In the end, I figured that all the writing tips in the world won’t…
The main thing that makes me compare being a freelance writer to learning to drive are the things my driving instructor used to say to me. So, with the ingeniously named sub-heading below (I don’t know how I come up with…
When you think about freelance writing online, you often think about writing blog posts. Perhaps writing web pages too. While that makes up a lot of freelance writers’ work in the online world, press release writing is something that has personally…