We already talked about what a writer platform is , but what does (or can) a platform actually consist of? Your writing platform probably won’t look exactly like mine, and it won’t look like those of your colleagues necessarily. There are no tools or tactics that you must use, although there are some that are used more commonly than others

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30 Ways to Build Your Writer Platform

If you notice any strangeness going on at All Freelance Writing today, please just be patient. I’ll be working on the merger of AFW with the QueryFreeFreelancing.com (as I convert that solely into a site for the book). That means you might see some odd new pages that stretch out the top navigation (they’ll quickly be removed), or if you’re a subscriber it’s possible that you’ll see a lot of new posts show up in the feed (not sure about that).

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Changes Under Way — Please be Patient

It’s exciting to find a Craigslist ad that might actually pan out with a true “livable wage” for a start up magazine that looks halfway viable. So, imagine my disappointment when I found out that an opportunity from [name redacted for now] instead chose to ask for free content from potential freelancers. They referenced their massive number of replies, and chose to leverage those by asking for freebie content.

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Heads Up- Yet Another Publication Looking for Free Content

It’s that time of the week again — the time when we gather up some of the more interesting or useful posts for freelance writers from around the blogosphere. I hope you find something here of interest to you. I Just Got an Assignment

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Weekend Reading – January 23, 2010

There’s never been a better time to be a writer — there’s no ceiling on your income, and your opportunities are amazing. Many of those opportunities require a foundation of knowledge of how the web works. Therefore in next week’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine, we discuss creating money-magnet websites

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Writing Ezine: How to Create a Money-Magnet Website

Today I want to warn you about a serious blight on our industry. Many of you out there are serious writers and have been for a long time, and I respect that. I certainly have quite a few years of work under my belt, and I didn’t get to this point without my share of knocks.

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Breaking News: Criticism Destroys Writing

William Shakespeare is the shorthand we use when we want to describe a great writer. He stands for the pinnacle of writing ability. One reason is that he mastered the art of writing for completely different audiences

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How to Blog like Shakespeare: Writing for Three Audiences at the Same Time

If you decided to search for freelance writing jobs right now, you would probably find thousands of them advertised. Many of those writing jobs are crap (and that’s putting it nicely) to the bulk of writers here

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5 Signs You’ve Landed a Great Freelance Writing Job

I don’t know if you’ve been following LaToya Irby’s series here on AFW, but I think it’s great. She offers a lot of great tips and advice on how to do your taxes as a freelancer, which can be quite a pain if you have a large number of clients. I think that I’ve learned a lot from her this year, and although I’m not totally ready to do my own taxes, I feel confident enough to check over the work being done

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Little-Known Freelancer Tax Tips

Normally I don’t talk about my clients directly on my blogs, but today is an exception. One of my clients (the owner of DirJournal.com ) made a special link building offer to writers and bloggers, and I’d like to share that with you today. But first, let’s talk about link building in general, why it’s important for freelance writers, and how you can build quality links to your blog or freelance writing portfolio

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Link Building Tactics for Freelance Writers

This week’s freelance writing jobs are an odd crop. Basically, if you want regular work and you’re a sports writer in New Jersey, this is your banner week. For the rest of us, well, maybe it’s not quite as fruitful

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Freelance Writing Jobs – January 19th, 2010

One of the reasons you decided to work freelance, whether part-time or full-time, is to have the chance to work from home. You may receive some tax benefits from having a home office. Read on to learn how can you take the home office deduction on your taxes

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How to Take the Home Office Tax Deduction

I stumbled onto AOL’s content production site, Seed.com, while researching new freelance writing  job opportunities for you. Of course, Seed.com is somewhat vague when in terms of payment, unless you sign up. Being the friendly guide that I am, I decided to go through the process and report back to you, as their pay levels and practices should factor in whether or not you spend time writing for them

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What’s the Deal with Seed.com’s Freelance Writing Jobs?

I don’t know if it’s a dreary, rainy Sunday where you are like it is here, but if it is and you’re looking for something to do indoors today, here’s some weekend reading for freelance writers. These are some of the best blog posts I’ve come across from the previous week talking about freelance writing, blogging , and other topics that might be of interest to you.

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Weekend Reading: January 17, 2010

I still get many questions about Elance, and to help those writers out, I’ve put together 5 Steps to Elance Success . Look, I don’t think you’re going to spend a couple years on Elance. I think that, as you evolve and improve your freelance writing, you’ll happen upon other outlets and strategies to market your work and find clients.

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Five Steps to Elance Success

Something the Freelance Writing Jobs community alaways enjoyed and I haven’t provided for a while are our community creativity projects. We haven’t captioned or created one paragraph stories in some time.  Let’s have a little fun today and let our imagination run wild. What do you think is happening in this image

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Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It? What Does This Picture Say?

If you’re a copywriter, you need the ability to become inspired on demand. Some copywriters keep “swipe files” (a file of inspirational ads and other copy) for this reason. Here’s a site you should bookmark, courtesy of Neat resource of vintage ads, the Vintage Ad Browser, for those times you need to get out of your

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Copywriting: inspiration from vintage ads

I get a kick out of the various search terms folks use to find Freelance Writing Jobs. A few months ago, we served up a sampling of some of the more unusual search terms used to bring readers here and we’re back for a second helping. Enjoy some of the interesting words and phrases used to bring people to the FWJ network

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“My Dog is Chasing My Cat” and Other Unusual Search Terms Leading You Here

I know now what I didn’t know then. I spent quite a bit of time working up to a full-time income freelancing while keeping the day job during pregnancy so that after my baby arrived, I could stay home and spend more time with him and do the mommy thing the way I wanted to. I was thrilled that it seemed to be working out perfectly.

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The Brand New Work-at-Home Parent – or – What the Heck Was I Thinking?

Going one step further you may even be offered a high paying freelance writing job if someone likes your style of writing. This may seem like a long shot but I have heard of several people getting writing gigs through twitter. …

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Freelance writer jobs: Why every freelance writer should use twitter