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…
Tag: Productivity
Don’t worry, it can happen to anyone. It’s a totally normal and natural occurrence, and much more common than you think. Whether writing for clients or for their own blogs, even the best writers get stuck for blog post ideas…
Becoming a freelance writer online involves 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. (Yas, alliteration.) In the end, I figured that all the writing tips in the…
Are any of these stopping you from becoming a freelance writer online? Be honest. 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…
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…
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…
How often do you wish you could get more done in any one day? How often do you race against the clock to meet a deadline, or simply feel overwhelmed by your day-to-day tasks? First off, read this. Suitably chilled…
Or: How to Work (and Play) Stress-Free Every Day… Certain realities kick in after the initial stages of making regular money from freelance writing start to wane. Suddenly, you’ve got everything you worked so hard for: You’re making your living…
It’s a minefield isn’t it? The array of online tools and resources for freelance writers I mean. There’s an app for acronyms and a tool for time management, a blog for business and a guide to grammar. The problem is,…
By Erica Lynn: In July of 2014 I decided it was now or never. It wasn’t the right time to start a freelance writing career, but sometimes the hardest part is just starting. For years I had worked a full-time…