A six-figure freelancer on the top strategies she’s used to find new clients and how you can easily replicate her process in an hour a day. It’s probably one of the most clichéd lines in the freelance writing world, but that doesn’t make it any less true: Freelancing is a numbers game. To find new […]
Freelancing and Journalism
Waiting For A Response To Your Pitches? 8 Things You Should Do
The most important actions you can take when waiting for a response to your pitch. I think I speak for everyone when I say waiting for a response to your pitch sucks. Waiting is not an uncommon experience for writers. If you’re not waiting for an editor to get back on a proposal, you’re waiting […]
4 Easy Fixes When Your Ideas Don’t Sell
What to do when a story comes back rejected and your ideas don’t sell. A writer emailed me the other day to ask what I do when my ideas don’t sell, when I get rejection after rejection. Do I give up? How do I keep believing? When do I know a story is a dud? […]
Psychological Barriers And Easy Wins, AKA How To Get Over Yourself And Get Work Done
The psychological tricks every writer needs. Writers, as a side effect of being creative folk, are masters of the art of the excuse. We create all kinds of psychological barriers for ourselves when it comes time to get work done. Time to pitch a story or an idea? Yeah, I’ll have a cup of tea […]
I Doubled My Response Rate With This Simple Pitching Technique
Was there a way I could get more responses, even rejections? I decided to experiment. Like most writers, I started my freelancing career fearing and hating pitching in equal parts. Then, I doubled my response rate. In the early days of my career, I sent out five query letters a day, 25 queries a week. […]