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Setting, Increasing, and Sticking To Your Freelance Writing Rates
Posted by Alicia in Business Help, Writing Advice on January 11, 2010
Do you need a witty caption? Really? I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
One of my goals for 2010 is to stop working so much on the weekends. I was fairly good about that during the first few years of my freelance writing career – when I did work on the weekends, it was generally because I either A) took a day off during the week, or B) just wanted to. Over the last year or so, though, life got in the way and I found myself working almost every weekend.
It stops in 2010.
However, before it stops (I’m such a junkie), I’ve decided to spend the first few weekends of 2010 doing some housekeeping – of the writing career variety – and this past weekend, my task was to tackle my freelance writing rates.
I knew I was going to have to do it sooner or later, and the beginning of the year seemed like a much better time than, say, mid-June. Plus, Deb Ng’s recent blog post about making a profit with your freelance writing business provides some solid information about setting and raising rates and proved to be just the kick in the tail I needed.
Writers Beware: Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket!
Posted by Alicia in Writing Advice on January 6, 2010
Look at all my pretty eggs! This basket will hold them forever! Muahahaha!!!
One of the best pieces of advice I received when I first started freelancing was: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Really, it’s pretty common sense advice for any freelancer or self-employed person. If you put all your eggs in one basket – in other words, if you devote all your time and attention to one particular client and job and come to financially depend solely on that job – you’re left with nothing when something happens to that basket.
Notice how I’ve used “when” instead of “if”; it’s been my experience that, eventually, something always happens to the basket.
Yes, this was one of those lessons I had to learn for myself, unfortunately.
The Top 7 Ways to Screw Yourself Out of a Writing Gig
Posted by Alicia in Social Media, Writing Advice on January 4, 2010
Because I'm so creative with my images.
On Friday, I sort of joked about writing a post titled “The Top 7 Ways to Screw Yourself Out of a Writing Gig,” but over the weekend I thought, “You know what? I really could write that post. I really could list seven ways for a writer to shoot herself in the foot. Whether I’ve witnessed fellow writers make these mistakes, or I’ve made them myself.”
Of course, that last part doesn’t really sound like something to be proud of, I know…
…but, it means my writing career has survived some growing pains, right?
Right.
So, on to the top seven ways to screw yourself out of a writing gig, in no particular order.
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