One of the great things about figuring out how to make a living writing is you can work from anywhere. You can jump on a plane and then, while on a beach in Thailand or in a ski lodge in Canada, tap away at that laptop to pay for the trip. Well, that’s the...
I could tell that my hovering without speaking was making her nervous, and yet I couldn’t seem to move away. Good manners compelled me to thank this woman, an Internet acquaintance and hopefully future colleague, for inviting me to her event. And not just inviting me,...
So you’ve written a book. It’s taken you three months or 18 months or seven years. You’ve shared your manuscript with your sister, significant other, office mate and that kind-looking stranger and they all really, really liked it. Now what? In the best of all possible...
Looking to break into the lucrative world of content marketing? There are dozens, if not hundreds of places for writers to find content marketing clients: job boards, LinkedIn, through agencies, via websites such as Contently that match writers with businesses, and of...
Self-publishing success stories are all around us… but it’s not often we get a glimpse into how, exactly, these authors manage to sell so many books on Amazon. That’s why we love this piece from Forbes on how one author earns $450,000 a year self-publishing on Amazon....
If you have a website for your writing business, you undoubtedly have a single goal: You want to land freelance writing jobs. That’s great! You should be using your website to reel in clients, but what if you’re not seeing results? You know what I mean. You spent...
Hi! If you’re new to this column: I’m tracking my freelance income every month and sharing it with all of you. This is my third year of public income tracking, and my first year sharing my income with The Write Life. It’s time to look at March’s numbers: Completed...
Every writer experiences this situation at some point. You sit down at the computer, ready to hammer out words, but absolutely nothing comes out. Not a single word. It’s just you and the blank page, with its blinking cursor quietly taunting you. Eventually you force a...
Successful freelance writers are organized and efficient. They don’t waste time looking up which pitches they’ve sent and which still need to be polished to go out. They don’t have to look up an editor’s name and contact information every time they want to re-pitch a...
When you finish a short story, you likely feel a rush of excitement and an urge to share it with the entire world — or, barring that, any short fiction magazine that will take you. But in the rush to submit, don’t forget to give your short stories the attention...
