Every year I like to poll the Freelance Writing Jobs community to see how we’re doing. Really, this is your community and if we’re not giving you what you want, we’re not doing our jobs

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How’re We Doing? Please Take the 2010 Annual Freelance Writing Jobs Survey

Updating the old resume and I took on a part time, freelance writing position for a local bilingual newspaper. How can I describe this on my.

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What's some good description lines for a job as a freelance writer …

Several years ago, I wrote a post for a blog called Celebrity Cowboy called 66 Celebrities Who Blog . Today, I read again for the first time in years and realized it’s a little outdated. Plus it featured big names with blogs that weren’t updated or publicist-updated MySpace pages

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10 Celebrities with Blogs Worth Reading

Filed under Blogging, Freelance Writing , Jobs , Latest News · Tagged with companies hiring freelance writers, how to get a paid blogging job , job board, online writing gigs, paid blogging jobs , telecommute freelance writing jobs , …

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Freelance Writing and Blogging Jobs for February 2, 2010 : Working …

Happy Groundhog Day! I personally hope that Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow because I’ve been freezing and my electric bills have gone up through the roof. I might need to pick up a couple extra gigs to cover the balance! [update: yeah, he saw it

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Freelance Writing Jobs – February 2nd, 2010

The McGuffin has been a powerful storytelling device for a long time. It was Alfred Hitchcock who popularized both its use and the name that sounds like it should be on a dollar menu

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The Alfred Hitchcock Secret to Compelling Content and Copy

-Read job postings. You can find freelance writing job board sites that are forums and blogs, writing categories on classified sites like Craigslist, and you can Google for the type of freelance writing job you want. …

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The Writer's Blog By Dana Prince: Get Help Setting Your Freelance …

As freelance writers, our income is very unpredictable. We can set income goals, market ourselves, and create several income streams, but the truth is that it’s hard to say with certainty how much money we’ll make next month or six months from now. Even with contracts, clients come and go.

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Equip Yourself for Financial Emergencies

Treehuggers, today is your day. I’ve researched some environmental and nature writing markets for those of you who rock the green freelance writing jobs. If there are online guidelines, I posted the links.

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Freelance Writing Jobs Presents: 11 Environmental Writing Markets

Conversation in social media is supposed to be “open source,” right? We’re supposed to gain energy and excitement from being open to the entire internet, to ideas that come to us from literally every corner of the globe. But too often “social media” turns into a predictably closed circuit of the same people having the same conversation.

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How to Quit Hitting the Snooze Button on Your Blog

Every now and it’s suggested I’m doing this wrong, that my approach to freelance writing isn’t traditional and that the tips shared here are incorrect. It’s even been hinted that perhaps I don’t look out for a writer’s  best interests because I don’t follow the old-school rules of journalism or insist you follow the same path as all the other freelance writers. Those insinuations don’t bother me at all.

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The Non Traditional Freelance Writer’s Approach to Freelance Writing

Today we officially launch the next freebie in our collection of free online tools for writers — a freelance writing hourly rate calculator. There are two modes — one to help you calculate your needed income level and hourly rate and another to let you play with hourly rates for any income goal you choose (want to earn a million bucks next year?

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Free Dual-Mode Freelance Writing Rate Calculator Released

If you missed the previous announcement, the blog content from QueryFreeFreelancer.com was recently merged with All Freelance Writing. That includes already-released free Web templates and Wordpress themes for freelance writers. These are exclusively available through me.

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Free Wordpress Themes and Web Templates for Freelance Writers

It’s a bitterly cold weekend here, so I’m doing quite a bit of reading — always a good excuse to stay in. How about you? If you’re looking for something to do to pass the time, here’s some weekend reading for freelance writers that you might be interested in.

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Weekend Reading – January 30, 2010

Today we’re offering up some parenting markets. We’ve been listing magazine markets and other writing guidelines this week and many valid questions are being raised. For example, how do I know these markets accept freelancers, and also, how do I know the pay rate is what they say it is?

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Freelance Writing Jobs Presents: 19 Parenting Markets

Here’s a discussion topic to keep you busy until I list the next round of markets. I just had an interesting Skype chat with a friend of mine who also happens to be a former client.

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Freelance Writers: Are Just You Going through the Motions?

I’m getting kinda tired of reading all these posts about the right and wrong way to behave as a full time writer (and apparently, I’m not the only one ).

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Confessions of a Late Sleeping, Bunny Slipper Wearing Freelance Writer

Many of you began blogging to get more business. I’m sorry to tell you that many of you are doing the exact opposite. Your blog isn’t getting you more business — it’s actually sending business away.

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Could Your Blog be Ruining Your Business?

I was just thinking about my morning routine, I call it my “morning ritual.” I wake 30 to 60 minutes before the rest of my family, make coffee, start water boiling for oatmeal, handle lunches, feed pets and open doors for those animals wishing to use the outside, lay out clothes, and more.When the family wakes, I have another routine including packing backpacks, doling out breakfast and making sure shoes and socks are on by the time the school bus comes.

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Why Routines are Important for Freelance Writers

I have two under five. I’ve survived one toddler and have just a few months until my second bout of toddler-motherhood expires. It’s a trip; it’s a pain; it’s outrageous; it’s a blast.

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Writing with Toddlers? Skip Finesse – Opt for Survival