Freelance Writing Jobs Available
The most important step: finding those freelance writing jobs available online. When I first started writing, it caused me a lot of stress that it was pretty obvious that freelance writing jobs were readily available.
After all, there were articles all over the Internet, books, magazine articles, newspaper freelancers, and somebody wrote all those little blurbs that appeared in descriptions and so on. Actually let’s face it: there is a world of print out there!
Not all writers are created equal
The second thing that was obvious was that not a lot of people could actually write. Those of you who CAN write and are reading this know that this is true; how many times have you come across some absolute crap and wondered how it was that the person who penned or typed it could have though it was worthy of being read?
Those of you with freelancing experience know this from an even more important source, as far as the money side of things go. How many clients have you had who have told you how very hard it is to find someone who can actually write, using proper and easy to understand English? For my part, I am pretty sure that this is why the clients I do have are willing to put up with the odd missed deadline and so on.
Making the connection
So what exactly was the stressful part? Well, it lay in connecting the dots between those freelance writing jobs available and the people who were hiring to fill them.
That’s what made me successful; I know where to find jobs on the Internet. I am hoping that sooner or later we can build a community here with writers from several backgrounds who can help to point novices in the right direction, but for now this will probably be my focus.
So, here are some of the places where you will be able to make that connection between the need between the freelance writing jobs available to you and the people hiring to fill them.
Where you can look
- Writing sites
Here’s one link that I recently found: www.bluegrasssolutions.org. These guys are hiring writers right now and they aren’t the only company doing so either. Keep your ear to the ground and your wits about you and you can find some too. - Bidding sites
My bread and butter: Elance.com, Guru.com, ifreelance.com. There are at least half a dozen other sites where clients are offering any type of freelance writing job you could think of. - Direct appeal
Every once in a while I get a positive response when I dare to write a website suggesting that they beef up their writing a bit.
Another great place to look is with companies who specialize in Search Engine Optimization. Writing articles is a big part of this so most web site companies retain a writer or two to help out their various clients.
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