When you’re a freelancer, you are every department of your business—sales, A/R, administration, IT. Not to mention, you know, the actual writing part. Your time is valuable, s...
Grab a coffee with your favorite freelancer writer, and before your latte’s gone, chances are she’ll have mentioned her roller coaster income — whether to humblebrag on a particularly lucrative month or lament a particularly paltry one. Because, as someone w...
When I was about 12, I saw an ad in a magazine for a poetry contest that sounded fancy and impressive, something like “International Library of Poetry.” I bled poetry at that age, so I crossed my fingers and sent in a poem I’d been slaving over for weeks. A...
As a freelance writer, sometimes it feels like a losing battle to get work. You send but hear nothing but crickets — or at least, that’s what often happens to me. Recently, though, I had a mindset shift. I’m not just a...
Working from home was once a position that many workers could only dream of being in. It was also something only big companies tended to explore. Working from home has many great for both the companies and freelancers. While outsourcing work overseas is nothing new, it tradition...