Category: Freelance Writing
For Reporters – The Best Way to Make Your Articles Better
What do you think is the best way to make your articles better? These tips for newspaper and magazine writing are especially for reporters – but they apply to all types of writers. They’re from Vancouver-based publication coach Daphne Gray-Grant – one of my writing mentors. “Do you see interviewing as a fact-gathering mission?” asks Gray-Grant. “If [...]
How to Increase Writing Confidence – Grow the Skin of a Rhino
What’s so great about the skin of a rhino? Toughness! These tips on increasing your writing confidence will help you toughen up and soldier through the moments of despair all writers face. Before the tips, a quip: “The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And [...]
Why I Stopped Hiring Bloggers to Write for Quips and Tips
If you’re a freelance writer, these reasons I no longer pay writers for Quips and Tips articles will help you get more article assignments. Learn from my perspective as an editor – I offer several tips for freelancers below. Before the tips, a quip: “A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It’s a perverse taste, really, [...]
How to Make Writing Easy and Increase Your Energy to Write
Writers, do you struggle to find the time and energy to write? Who am I kidding – of course you do! Motivation, energy, and inspiration are both the bane and the backbone of a writer’s existence. I recently received a question from a reader who is struggling to write. And, I’m “coincidentally” reading a book [...]
8 Freelance Writing Habits That Will Get You More Work
Want to get more work as a writer? Need clips and experience? Don’t miss these freelance writing habits – they work. The first two habits I describe are what got me the writing gig I’m starting today – a blogging job for which I’m charging “an arm and a leg” per word (when I’m too [...]
Can’t Get Published? Freelance Writers, Stop Doing This…
If you can’t get published, you’re making mistakes. Freelance writers, here are the top reasons I don’t assign articles – and sometimes don’t even return emails from writers. These tips will help you get your articles (and perhaps books) published…but only if you take a cold, hard look at your own writing. Before the tips, [...]
How to Pitch a Query Letter to Magazine Editors
Querying and pitching query letters to editors are reliable ways to get freelance writing work. I’ve been on both sides of the fence – I worked as an editor receiving queries, and I worked as a freelance writer pitching magazine articles. These are some of my best tips on how to pitch a query letter and [...]
Email Bloopers! Funny Mistakes Writers Made When Emailing Editors
These email bloopers or mistakes writers make are not only true and funny, they’ll help you stay out of hot water with editors! I also included tips for emailing pitches to editors of magazines. Have you ever hit “Send” on an email – only to spot a cringe-worthy error just as it launched into cyberspace? [...]
Best Online Banks for Writers – Ally, ING, First Internet Bank
Low or no ATM fees is a necessity for a bank to qualify as one of the “best online banks for writers”! These four banking options for freelance writers include the pros and cons of each bank. Before the tips, a quip: “Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for [...]
Managing Freelance Income – 4 Tips for Tracking Money and Time
Knowing how to manage your freelance income is the first step to successfully running your own business! These tips for tracking money and time will help freelancers of all shapes and sizes. Before the tips, a quip: “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” ~ Woody Allen. Yes, you love working as a [...]
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