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 […]
3 Game-Changing Strategies For Finishing Your Book
Stuck in the middle? Here’s how to finish your book without burning out, flaking out, or rewriting the first chapter forever. My first novel took seven years to write. This is something I wore as a badge of honor as I was doing it, but that embarrasses me no end now. My second took seven […]