Beyond the Rhetoric

There is a standard piece of advice that many career coaches and guidance counselors give to the people who visit their offices: decide on what you love to do and find a way to make a career out of it. Do you love to cook? Maybe you should go to culinary school and train to [...]

I guess you could say that I started from a rather fortunate position. When I decided to embark on this freelance writing journey, I had enough money saved up that I didn’t need a full-time income right away. It also helped that the startup costs were remarkably minimal, because I already had a computer from [...]

There are many different things that you can do to promote your blog or your business online. You can choose to buy advertising on other websites or even through Twitter. However, one of the most powerful things you can do is to rank for your target keywords and keyword phrases in the search engines. Most [...]

Some people seem to assume that all you need to be a successful freelance writer is to good writing ability. While that certainly factors in to your potential for making a good living as a writer, there are many other areas that you will also need to explore. You’ll need to get familiar with accounting, [...]

One of the reasons why someone may be hesitant to embark on a career in freelance writing is the definite potential for an unstable income. It is very well possible to land a lucrative contract one month and to draw deep into your savings the next month. Getting into this entrepreneurial realm, you have to [...]