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Five Tips for a Successful Freelance
Writing Career

Freelance writer in bed

When you tell people you’re a freelancer writer, they immediately make a few assumptions:

  1. You spend the whole day in your pajamas, and
  2. “Freelance writing” is really code for “unemployed.”

I say, fine: Let them think this. Who needs the competition? The truth is, if you’re smart about it, you can make a lot more money working for yourself than working for someone else, and you don’t have to punch a time clock.

Yeah! Now, here are five tips for actually getting some work done.

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Five Easy Steps to Editing Your Own Work

Proofreader

In a perfect world, you’d never have to edit your own work, but well, you know the drill. The world’s not perfect, life’s not fair, yada yada. So spend a little time now or a lot of time later trying to convince your boss to let you keep your job as a “pubic relations director.”

Step One: Just walk away, Renée (or Kevin or Amy).

We all know that when we’re too close to things, we don’t see them clearly. This can be good for relationships, but hazardous for the editing process.

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