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My First Rejection Slips
As we approach the end of 2009 I find myself remembering my first rejection slips. Yes, there were two of them. I’m not sure they arrived on the same day, but I did mail (snail mail) two articles on the same day. Those were the first two articl...
How Can I Use A Pen Name? Ask Anne The Pro Writer
Hi Anne, I am a technology journalist with over 20-years of experience. I am currently working full time as a senior writer with a fairly major publication. I am trying to see if I can earn some extra money doing freelance work and was looking fo...
Categorizing Money Helps Freelance Writers Deal With Money – Part 2
Part 1 of this series is Tracking Money. Once you’ve begun tracking your money on a daily basis it’s time to give some thoughts to setting up categories of spending and earning. If you’re using Quickbooks or one of the other compute...
Tracking Money Helps Freelance Writers Deal With Money – Part 1
By definition freelance writers have both an uncertain and an uneven income. In the United States, we must also pay self-employment taxes as well as for all our own health insurance and other benefits – at least until we get to retirement age. ...
Business Planning for Writers – A Guest Article
Originally called Write Your Own Reality Business Plans for Writers this guest article by Devon Ellington is a great way to start to shape your goals and planning. Focus. Commitment. Desire. These are the three touchstones necessary for success as a ...
Micropayments – A Piece Of The Freelance Writing Puzzle
Nick Cernis, who has a truly wonderful blog called of all things Putting Things Off has an article titled The End of Free Content. There he makes an excellent case for making money on content with micropayments. One definition is Micropayments are me...
The 5 Types Of People Who Should Write For Content Mills – A Guest Article
I’m a freelance writer who mentors other writers. In particular, I teach writers I coach to avoid writing for the big article sites, or any other client that pays under $50 a blog or article. So why am I writing this post? Because there are...
How To Stay On Track With Your Freelance Writing Business
If you’re going to be a successful freelance writer you’ve got to find a way to keep yourself on track. This is true if you’re writing for clients or if you’re blogging or writing books for yourself. I’ll admit, however,...
A Reasoned Look At Demand Studios’ Insurance Plan
Last in November I along with many other blogs about writing did an article about Demand Studios’ insurance plan. My writing buddy, Lori Widmer who is, among other things, pretty much of an expert on all things insurance was out of town when ...
Assessing Writing Projects – A Guest Article
A disturbing trend in today’s freelance market is writers who do not look beyond the first glance at a project. One of the hottest topics circulating at any given time is regarding rates, and how they are “too low”, according to some of the so-...
Finding a Niche (Or Two) – A Suite101 Guest Article
Michelle Schusterman who blogs and writes from many places, tells us how she does it. As the old saying goes, “write what you know.” With all the freelance writing jobs floating around in cyberspace – some that actually pay! – itR...
Demand Studios Offers Health Insurance
Yep, Demand Studios is now offering at least some of their creatives health insurance. Here’s a roundup: Here is DS announcement: http://www.demandstudios.com/health-insurance.html. This is what Jenn over at All Freelance Writing had to say a...
Job Postings Here Are The Tip Of A Great Big Iceberg!
I got a nice email from Jennifer Mattern who runs All Freelance Writing. She wanted to make sure I knew that starting next week she’s posting jobs on her site only once a week. She spells out her reasons in a post she called Freelance Writing ...
Now You Can Tell People You’re A Writer! A Guest Article
When people asked me what I did for a living, I learned to avoid telling them I was a writer because it seemed that every taxi driver, dentist, person sitting next to me on flight, whoever, wherever, was a frustrated writer. Admitting my profession...
Copyright – Resource Roundup Tuesday
Meryl K. Evans, who blogs at Meryl.net pointed at an article (fist link below) in one of her tweets today. Experienced writers in the U.S. have a pretty good sense of what’s copyrightable and what’s not. Newer writers need good informatio...
John Hewitt Defends Demand Studios, Sort Of
Sometimes twitter is just great. For example Deb Ng tweeted she was reading John’s Is Demand Studios the new Associated Press? John is a journalist, much more than I am. Although I have read AP pieces coming over the wire back in the day, that...
5 Links About Writing For Magazines – Resource Roundup Tuesday
Getting published in a national magazine is the dream of many freelance writers. It’s possible not only to get published but to get published often in both trade and consumer magazines. The following list links you to great tips: A FAQ About M...
Successful Subcontracting – It’s In The Details
A writer friend of mine found himself with an over abundance of work and asked me if I’d be interested in subcontracting a portion of it. I had a bit of time and agreed. The project was a 25 page workbook. I needed to complete the project in ab...
Lessons In Collecting – Videos About Writing
Getting paid is often an issue. In these two videos Tina Dupuy, who blogs at The Sardonic Sideshow, uses YouTube in an innovative way. Three comments: If Tina had submitted an invoice or written a cover letter that indicated she was expecting t...
A Truth About Residual Income Sites
We’ve been talking a bit about writing or not writing for websites that promise residual income. Jennifer Mattern has put together the actual numbers based on her own experience and some reasonable projections. The artilce is called Freelance ...
Checking Up on Examiner.com
Like you, I’ve seen ads for writers at Examiner.com off and on for a couple of years give or take. My impression has been that they pay writers a small amount and I’ve tended to post the ads and move on. Today I got an email from someone ...
Yes! You’re Entitled To A Profit
Dictionary.com defines profit as: The return received on a business undertaking after all operating expenses have been met. Of course, you can only figure your return if you actually know what your expenses are – all of them. But once you have...
What, Exactly, Are Your Expenses?
Do you know exactly what your expenses are as a freelance writer? It’s surprising how few freelancers can answer this question with any precision. That may be, at least in part, due to a confusion of deductible expenses – that is the mone...
Of Credits, Contracts and Contributions – Ask Anne The Pro Writer
Hello Anne, I have run across your site and maybe you can help us solve a dilemma. I am a writer. I typically write inspirational articles and nonfiction books. However, an old friend kept pestering me about writing a fiction novel for her until I st...
How Much To Talk About Communications? Ask Anne The Pro Writer
Hi Anne, I’ve been invited to address a group their annual conference. The topic requested of me – very generally – is improved communications among that group’s members. Based on your many experiences at the podium, do y...
What About Simultaneous Submissions?
When writers ask about magazine articles I often suggest they make simultaneous submissions when they are submitting complete articles over the transom. ‘Over the transom’ by definition means you’re submitting something without getting any sort...
What Is A Billable Expense?
Freelance writers have the joy of working their own schedules in their own way. But the ability to work odd hours and in our PJs also means we don’t have a supply cabinet stocked by someone else like we might have in a corporate job. Nor do w...
5 Reasons Why You Might Not Want To Be A Freelance Writer
If you follow this blog you know I love freelance writing. I talk about the freedom of how I spend my time, the joy of no commute, and on and on. But the truth is there are some good reasons why you might not want to become a full time freelance wr...
Wanna Learn Copywriting? A Book Review
Copywriting can be one of the most lucrative kinds of freelance writing you’ll ever find. People are willing to pay good copywriters Back in January 2007, Karen Gedney, of ClickZ, says that she sees rates for good copywriters coming in at $65...
Of Google, Books, and Clouds
In 2004 Google announced it’s book digitizing project. The short form is that Google digitizes all sorts of books and makes them available online to read if they are out of copyright, or to preview in the copyright is still valid. In 2005, th...
