When you live with someone else, being a freelance writer and working from home can be a nightmare. You do your best to explain that while you’re working from home, you’re still working. This seems to go in one ear and out the other. It’s one thing to be disturbed if there’s an intruder in […]
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Freelance Writers Learn How to Communicate
Communication is very important, especially when you’re a freelance writer. It you can’t communicate clearly and concisely, you won’t have any clients and you’re freelance writing career may be over before you know it. Get to the point, make it, and move on from there. People are bombarded by emails, phone calls, and text messages […]
A Positive Mental Attitude is Necessary to be a Freelance Writer
According to Reggie Bennett owner of Mountain Shepherd Wilderness Survival School in Virginia, “a positive mental attitude” is the number one priority if you want to survive in the wilderness. It’s also the number one priority for freelance writers. Without it, you won’t succeed because you’ll listen to the naysayers who say you can’t make […]
7 Steps to Collecting Freelance Writing Payments
I recently found out that a publisher I wrote for is facing a lawsuit because of a debt he owes to a printing company. Needless to say, I along with other freelance writers haven’t been paid, and I’m not sure if we’ll ever see payment. I should have known something was awry when the publisher […]
Freelance Writers Learn the Meaning of No
According to Dictionary.com the word “No” has the following meanings: Adverb 1. a negative used to express dissent, denial, or refusal, as in response to a question or request) 2. used to emphasize or introduce a negative statement): Not a single person came to the party, no, not a one. 3. not in any degree […]