by Candy Korman There are more than a few clichés about freelancing and some of them are even true. Freelancing is a financial “roller coaster.” It can be “feast or famine.” And you will not survive if you aren’t prepared for economic dips. Managing Economic Impact on a Freelance Writing Life When the overall economy [...]
One of the best things a blogger or website manager can do to drive traffic to their blog or website is to learn how to use images effectively. The power of the written word is one thing but the use of imagery amplifies whatever story you are trying to tell, by thousands, you know the [...]
The Internet is an amazing research tool, allowing a good writer to write on just about any topic assigned to them. The Internet is also vastly misused as an environment for less scrupulous writers to “spin” articles written by someone else. The hard work of researching a topic, developing content and actually writing an intelligent, [...]
Every serious writer wants to write well and know that they are somehow making an impact on their readers. A writer may be trying to convey an emotion, provide information, describe how to do something, persuade a buyer, or any number of other endeavors. The writer is hoping to move the reader in some way. [...]
David Ogilvy, a successful advertising man and author of “Confessions of an Advertising Man” has this to say about headlines: “The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.” The same thing can be said of writing headlines or titles for [...]
Some people look at freelance editing with disdain. To many freelance writers the point of writing is to create, to build up, not to tear it down and make it something else. However, freelance editing jobs come with a wide variety of challenges. In some ways, it’s more challenging than being an editor who has [...]
New freelance writers will leap at that short term project with a juicy price tag attached. However, when they open it there are forty other people who’ve bid on it with twenty years of experience and portfolios massive enough to crush any newbie. How did they become a freelance writer? Are they better? The sad [...]
So you have your freelance writing jobs portfolio up, a few free hours and the determination to type out an award-winning article. Now you face the daunting task of finding the right person to hire you. This can be both encouraging and daunting, given the huge range of freelance writing jobs. Moreover, they all ask [...]
Have you ever sat in front of your computer banging your head against your desk as you try to decide what to write? At one time or another, every freelance writer with a deadline has encountered this white screen of death. It’s not uncommon either to type in a few feeble sentences, stare at them, [...]
So you’re a freelance writer looking to be rewarded with your good work with the big bucks or a few dimes at least? Don’t be the latter. That said, hundreds of freelancers are doing that, literally working for fractions of a penny per minute in freelance writing jobs for beginners. It’s the way many freelancer [...]