Working as a writer is about writing AND reading. If you’re lucky, you’re working as a writer on part of a team where there are other eyeballs that will review your work before it goes to the client or (gasp) to print. This pic was posted on John Morgan’s Facebook page. He’s a marketing consultant ...…
Working as a writer means you’ve got complete time freedom. Um, no. It’s the last day of May, so I’ve got my annual realization that working as a writer with kids home from school takes some adjustment. My fortress of solitude? Gone. The silence so conducive to concentration? History. A fridge neatly stocked with whatever ...…
Setting up your first blog site is the an important step to get paid to blog. Sure, you can try to find clients who will pay you to blog for them, but as a ghostwriter you may not be able to use those blogs for your personal writing portfolio. A better plan is to start ...…
There’s a downside you’ll discover when you learn how to make money writing. Learning how to make money writing is essentially learning how to be your own boss. As in, you’ve got a job – but you’re the boss. In any job, you trade time for money. Writing takes time. If you put in the ...…
Whether it’s the dog, the kids, or your ringing phone, there are plenty of distractions impacting productivity as a freelance writer. In order to overcome these challenges, it is important to schedule your time in such a way that you can complete projects to meet your deadlines. After all, your client couldn’t care less about ...…
If you get paid to edit, I’ll bet you go through Advil by the case. Sometimes when you get paid to edit a book, article, or dissertation, it’s easy money. Sometimes… not so much. With those projects, you may find yourself scoping out sharp corners of walls that you could maybe bang your head on ...…
How does working as a writer fit with the aging process? There are some jobs you probably can’t do too well after you reach a certain age – is working as a writer one of them? A while back, I read about a kindergarten teacher who was in her 90′s. There are artists in their ...…
There are two ways you can get paid to blog. You can get paid to blog for your clients, and you can build your own blog into a revenue stream. The first is nearly-instant income… the second, well, that could take a while. But if you learn how to do it right and stick with ...…
If you are just beginning as a freelance writer, a good place to start is seeking out how you can get paid to write articles. Article writing is what makes the Internet go ’round, and if you can write cohesive sentences with good grammar and punctuation, you can profit! The challenge for many beginning writers ...…
One of the best ways to get writing clients when you’re first starting is to use job boards. There are several out there where you can get writing clients – all with slightly different processes, each attracting different types of clients. Some are known for being cheap. You probably don’t want to spend much time ...…
