Freelance Writing Tips to Encourage, Inspire and Motivate

Category archive: Business of Freelance

Success Brings Failure

The successful freelance writer can get so caught up in doing the same ole same ole that she misses the fine line. That happened to me just the other day. I got a project request that touched on a subject near and dear to my heart so I jumped on it.
There was plenty of time [...]

Cries of a Freelance Writer

“I made so much more money working for someone else.”
Every freelance writer that I know cries out on this subject at some point and time. The money that you thought you were going to make may not have ever materialized. It may just be that the work you get spaces out so far that if [...]

Real or Fake Freelance Writing Jobs

Freelance writing comes with its own issues and problems. New writers stress over copyright, getting paid and the price of freelancing. Experienced freelance writers stress over . . . the same issues for the most part. No matter how long you are involved in freelancing, these situations will arise. The difference often comes in how [...]

Seeing Past the Dollar Signs

The job came at the perfect time. It might not pay as much as I normally asked, but at least it was paying. I reviewed the request, the length of the project and quickly replied yes. My email included some clarifications and a few questions. His reply included a shocking timeline, but I was willing [...]

Trust Agents Review

Friday, I had the opportunity to write a review of Trust Agents over at Author Haven. This book ranks up at the top of my must read list. I would even put it in the category with Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude AND Tough Times Never Last but Tough People Do – two books [...]

Something is About to Break

Things have been moving along these last few weeks. In the last couple of days the momentum has started to pick up. Now would be an easy time to sit back and enjoy, but when things start moving it is important to keep the action going so that you continue to move forward.
Big [...]

Creating Writing Opportunities

Developing a writing career comes about in similar ways to developing any career. You have to be willing to expand your talents, present your talents and pursue opportunities with boldness to fulfill those talents. Writing opportunities seem to be endless in the online community but finding writing opportunities that will expand your personal [...]

Pursue Writing Dreams

“Do not wait on your dreams. Be bold in the pursuit of doing the things you want to do. Waiting until tomorrow means never getting there!”
I wrote these words on a website in response to the release of my new eBook, “Problems to Proverbs,” which launches December 15th. It can be easy sometimes to [...]

Writing for Dollars

Face it – there are very few people that are out there writing just to send words through the air. Most people that are pursuing writing seriously want to make a few dollars along the way. Even those that fall into the “Christian” genre want to see a paycheck of some sort come [...]

Professional First to Write Professionally

Writers must be professional if they want to be full time writers. Meeting deadlines, subject guidelines and word counts should be normal operating procedure. I am beginning to get the picture that being professional is not first on the minds of many writer artists.
The last couple of days I have had several employers [...]