This morning I ran across this great post about writer’s burnout at The Writers Manifesto . “Tumblemoose” had many great suggestions on dealing with burnout, and I shared mine, which is to switch up your freelancing as much as possible. For example, I’ve been managing a large Spanish-English translation project (which is a service that my freelance writing company also provides ) and it’s kept me away from writing

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Great Post on Burnout, and My Advice

Just got a great email from Janice Campbell at National Association of Independent Writers and Editors .  In honor of Words Matter Week, they are hosting a free teleclass about ” The Freelance Life .” It is (today) Wednesday the 3 at 3:30 EST (GMT-5). Very interesting. I hope some of my readers can check it out

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Free Teleclass Wednesday Care of NAIWE

I’m convinced that one of the best ways to pay your bills as a freelancer is to have multiple streams of income. For example, in addition to my magazine clients, I write for new freelancers here at About.com, teach a couple classes at the local community college, and also manage large translation projects for publishers.

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Multiple Streams of Income

Man, am I ever going to hear about this. So, I’m teaching a class about book reviewing, and we get off on a tangent about freelance writing and editing, and I tell my students that “Yes, you do have clips.” This is kind of a mantra of mine: I bet you do too have clips! Well, I’m stumped by a youngish woman who is just embarking on her career, who works in retail, and truly doesn’t have clips. No volunteer work, no church bulletins, no high school newspaper, etc.

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Sometimes I Do Recommend Content Mills

Ask and you shall receive! Last week a reader wrote in with questions about ghostwriting, and here we have a guest post from Laura Cross on that very subject! It’s estimated that more than 80% of published books are ghostwritten. That’s a lot of books in need of ghostwriters.

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Breaking Into the Lucrative Book Ghostwriting Business

There’s serious money to be made for freelance writers online today. With the shortage of jobs and the surmounting debt that many Americans face, lots of people are looking for ways to make extra income online

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Freelance Writing News from Digg.com – 142th Edition « Digg.com …

Successful Freelance Writer – Get Reasons out of the Way of Writing Kathryn Lang says: I will find one more writing job that will increase my income for February and the months ahead. The last several months I have tried to focus more …

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Freelance Writing News – 188th Edition « Freelance Writing News …

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