Freelance Writer
You have probably thought of being a freelance writer as a bit of a dream career, free of the mundane hassles that can plague the office worker. While it is true that as a writer you will have more variety in your life than at most jobs, you don’t always get to skip the less exciting aspects of a career.
And you certainly have to develop a specific mindset to succeed in the freelance writing job.
Most of the time you probably won’t make money writing about topics you particularly love or enjoy learning about, and many times a large part of your income won’t come from writing at all! And of course, there is always the money side of things; as a freelancer you are in charge of your own finances, from setting your budget month to month to calculating your own taxes.
For love AND money
In this section of the site, we are going to take a look at some areas you are going to have to concentrate on beyond writing in your career as a freelance writer. I have found a lot of these areas particularly troublesome.
I am not by any means a number cruncher, and I find that as I sit “filling out the books” I am not only calculating the money I’ve made and spent on the business, but also the hours I am using up making no money when I could be using the time finding more writing opportunities, checking out a new online writing contest, or just making money through writing. Still, it is a side of the business that has to get done.
Supplementing the writing side of the business
As my business has grown, I have realized that writing isn’t the only way to make money dealing with the written word on the Internet, even for a freelance writer. There are lots of different ways to add to your bottom line if you know what to look for, and some of them can be quite lucrative. We will be taking a look at finding proofreading jobs, editing jobs, and copywriting jobs on the Internet.
I have found that proofreading jobs and editing jobs in particular can be great for boosting up the end of the month money coming in for any writer, and you might even find you make more money per hour with this type of job than you do writing articles! Getting a few freelance editing jobs will not only get you some extra money, I have found that they usually lead to further writing opportunities as well.
Although writing is the defining part of a freelance writer’s life, writing careers are never about just writing. If you want to write for a living, particularly on the Internet, you need to be constantly on the lookout for supplemental income in the way of proofreading jobs, editing jobs, and copywriting jobs. You also need to understand the bookkeeping and mental side of the business, and we can help you out!
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August 25th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
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