As a freelance writer, excellent communication skills are par for the course. Most of us prefer email and text to telephone conversations but many companies want to discuss potential content voice-to-voice, meaning it’s essential to develop effective contract call skills: how do you know what a client really wants? Through experience and the (occasional) mistake,… Read more
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The Freelance Introvert?
A year ago, I decided to make a career change and start writing full-time. Aside from the obvious ‘will I have enough money to feed my family’ worries, I was also concerned about going stir-crazy while working from home. A comic by Internet funny man The Oatmeal does a great job of capturing the good… Read more
Fiction and Freelancers—Three Tips from a Novelist
I consider myself a freelance writer and a novelist. It was always going to be novel writing first and freelance to pay the bills until my breakout work hit bookstores everywhere and then a poorly-cast movie bastardizing my famous book made me rich. Five years later, with three completed novels (one self-published) and a realization… Read more