Comments on: How to Earn a Living as a Freelance Writer http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/how-to-earn-a-living-as-a-freelance-writer/ Tips for writers, freelancers, and novelists paired with quips from successful authors, to help you write better! Tue, 15 May 2012 00:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: 7 Quips and Tips for Achieving Your Goals http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/how-to-earn-a-living-as-a-freelance-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-2950 7 Quips and Tips for Achieving Your Goals Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:11:43 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=45#comment-2950 [...] If your goal is to earn a living as a writer, novelist or poet…but the job market seems to favor novelists and freelance writers. Ride [...] [...] If your goal is to earn a living as a writer, novelist or poet…but the job market seems to favor novelists and freelance writers. Ride [...]

]]> By: LShep http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/how-to-earn-a-living-as-a-freelance-writer/comment-page-1/#comment-69 LShep Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:19:04 +0000 http://theadventurouswriter.com/blogwriting/?p=45#comment-69 I dove into full-time writing pretty quickly. I was making a lot more doing something else, but I hated the something else I was doing. I came to a fork in the road- do the other thing forever and be successful at it or start something else entirely. Within two months I was making a full time living that I could actually get the bills paid with. To do that, though, takes a ridiculous amount of work, reading and lightning-speed learning about the potential markets. I wouldn't recommend that. I dove into full-time writing pretty quickly. I was making a lot more doing something else, but I hated the something else I was doing. I came to a fork in the road- do the other thing forever and be successful at it or start something else entirely.

Within two months I was making a full time living that I could actually get the bills paid with. To do that, though, takes a ridiculous amount of work, reading and lightning-speed learning about the potential markets. I wouldn’t recommend that.

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