(Many) Freelance Writing Courses Suck. So Here’s What I’ve Figured Out About It Free of Charge. — (Paid) writing courses are popping up like mushrooms these days. You may have noticed. While it would likely be in my financial interests to start one, I’m too much of a curmudgeon to jump on a bandwagon that I can’t get behind. Why I Believe Freelance Writing Courses Are Bad For Writers There’s Nothing You Can’t Learn For Free Onlinemedium.com

It Comes Down To Rates, My Friends… — The topic of revisions comes up periodically in online writing communities. How many should freelancers allow? One? Two? Unlimited? I’ve written about revisions on this Medium publication before. But here’s the TL;DR. I’m at the harballers’ end of the spectrum here. I offer my clients one (and one only) and…

It’s an unpopular opinion, but I hate negotiations. This is why. — One of the beautiful things about working as a full-time freelancer is getting a crash course in running a business. If you do this for long enough, you’ll also deal with plenty of contract negotiations, including some which you may find icky. Part of the process of running a solo…

Will overseeing AI bots be the fate of tomorrow’s freelance writing generalists? — This morning, I received the following contact form via my writing website.

Setting limits can help not only you, but also your clients — Roughly five years ago — when starting out on my journey as a freelance content marketing writer — I received an unexpected email from a client. The Type Of Freelance Writing Clients You Encounter At Various Price Points medium.com It was regarding a blog post I had written for the princely sum of about $100 roughly three months’ previously. A lot had happened…

How the market changes at various price points on the way up the pricing ladder — I’ve written previously about the various ways you can charge for freelance writing work. My Guides To Finding Clients and Pricing Freelance Writing Work To continue with the process of indexing I initiated yesterday, here’s an ordered list to some bits of information I…medium.com The common options are: Pricing per word

Some suggestions for keeping your hair while freelance writing — One of the commonly cited pitfalls of freelancing is a wildly fluctuating income. Never knowing what you’re going to be making from one month to the next — or even if you’re going to be making anything at all — can be extremely stressful. …

Options to continue your professional development as a freelance writer — If you’re looking to gain a leg up on the competition in the stiffly competitive freelance writing market, you may have considered adding a certification — or a few — to your resume. You can use a certification to: Make yourself more marketable Demonstrate subject matter expertise in a niche(s) …

While nothing’s required, these extra bits of knowledge could be worth adding to your resume — If you’re working as a freelance writer, then you probably already know that there’s lots of opportunity in writing. But in the hotly competitive writing market, even niching down and accruing great clips sometimes isn’t enough to guarantee a steady stream of work. When it comes to picking up extra…