If you’re looking to grow quickly in your freelancing writing career, here’s a step-by-step three-year plan for success. When you’re getting started as a freelancer—or if you’re returning to freelancing after a long gap—getting work will be your priority. However, without a long-term goal and a plan for achieving it, you’re just throwing spaghetti at […]
Freelancing and Journalism
5 Things You Must Unlearn to Succeed as a Freelancer
To succeed as a freelancer, you’ll need to let go of some common myths that masquerade as good advice. Joining a writing group was one of the best decisions I ever made as a new writer. I knew that to succeed as a freelancer, I would need writers with experience to help me iron out […]
What I Learned From Writing 1,000+ Stories For Over 300 Publications
Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to listen. I wasn’t picky. That’s what it came down to in the end, the 1,000+ articles I wrote over 15 years as a full-time journalist and the hundreds of newsletters and blog posts I wrote on the side for fun. I wanted to write. That’s […]