by Kirsty Boden-Stuart | Aug 24, 2023 | Find Paid Opportunities
The trick as a new freelance writer is to leverage what you have, while building what you need, and to do this you’ll need to focus on a few specific areas. If you’re just starting out as a new freelance writer online you may feel your lack of experience, contacts and...
by Kirsty Boden-Stuart | Jun 21, 2023 | Craft and Content Ideas
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. It’s the old Catch-22: To build a writing portfolio and get clients you need to be able to prove you can...
by Kirsty Boden-Stuart | Jun 1, 2023 | Craft and Content Ideas
If you want to indulge in a long and fulfilling relationship with the search engines, taking the long-game organic approach is the way to go. Now, let’s us begin with what this post is not: This post is not a comprehensive guide to SEO (search engine optimisation)....
by Kirsty Boden-Stuart | May 25, 2023 | Craft and Content Ideas
Whether writing for clients or for their own blogs, even the best writers get stuck for blog post ideas at some stage. Here’s what to do when it happens to you. Here’s how to generate blog post ideas when you’ve run dry: 1. Play around with keywords Think...
by Kirsty Boden-Stuart | May 18, 2023 | Pitching and Editors
Whether you’re responding to freelance writing jobs or sending a pitch by email, tick each of these off before you hit send on that pitch I used to hate the thought of pitching for freelance writing jobs. A long time ago when I was a student, I (very) briefly...
