How do you transition from one specialism to another without losing clients? Read this Bollywood-inspired example. Reader question: I’m a fairly well-published journalist from Mumbai. All my work is current Bollywood news and features. Now though, I’m working to shift my focus from Bollywood news for newspapers to stories for magazines. (I am not too […]
No Clips? No Problem: How to Get Freelancing Work When You Have No Experience
How to bring in the clients when you have no clips, no credits, and no contacts. It’s a chicken-and-egg situation. To get clients to hire you, you need to show previous work. But in order to show previous work, you need clients to hire you. So, if you’re a new freelancer with no clips, are […]
Freelance Writing: A Three-Year Plan for Growth
Forget overnight success. This three-year plan shows you how to build a writing career that grows steadily—and sticks. 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 […]
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
Pitching. Rewrites. Late nights. Chaos. Here’s everything I learned from writing like my life depended on it—because it did. 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 […]