Entrepreneurs – whether they’re successful writers or just launching a freelance career – need to invest financially in their business. Here are the best ways to invest in a writing career, ranging from getting organized to buying a Mac (but I’m not sold on Macs yet!).
“Sometimes, you have to spend money to make money,” says [...]

Want to improve your writing? Avoid these five over-used words and phrases! These writing tips are from a successful writer who isn’t just my regular guest blogger – she’s a recent Top 10 Blogs for Writers winner. I’ve learned a lot from freelancer Susan Johnston – such as how to increase my blog readership, earn [...]

If you don’t have a writing group – but want the support and accountability of other writers – check out these three tips for joining an online writing group from guest blogger Aimee Cirucci. She’s a writer and teacher; here, she also shares how her writing group helps her sell her writing. 
Before her tips, a quip:
“I think [...]

This guest post is from freelance writer and blogger Susan Johnston, who created one of my favorite writing blogs, The Urban Muse! Here, she describes five ways to increase your writing income.
Before her tips, a quip:
“I’d been trying to sell out for years, but nobody was buying,” wrote Susan Shapiro in Only as Good as [...]

Inactivity and fear of gaining 100 pounds are my biggest challenges as a freelance writer – but I’ve actually lost weight since I went fulltime a year ago! Here are tips for eating healthy while working from home, from myself (me?) and other writers.
First, natch, a quip from a writer…
“Sleep on your writing; take a [...]

If you’re earning money as a freelancer, blogger, or web writer, then you need to know these simple income tax tips! They include the basics of bookkeeping for a small business, and they’re best not left until tax time. Here, Ethan Ewing of Bills.com shares his tax tips for writers who make money.
“Now is the time [...]

These tips for earning money for new freelance writers are from Ruth E. “I can write about anything!” (TM) Thaler-Carter. She wrote Get Paid to Write! Getting Started as a Freelance Writer. Here, she shares her thoughts about earning money as a magazine freelance writer. 
Before the tips, a quip:
“It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work,” says Edith Hamilton.
Earning [...]

These three ways to earn more money as a freelance writer occurred to me during my massage the other day. I realized that my massage therapist could only earn money while she was actually working. But the best way to get rich is to earn money on something(s) while you do other things. For a [...]

These six reasons successful writers need literary agents are from best-selling author, former journalist, and writing teacher Maeve Binchy… 
Before her tips, a quip: 
“In an agent-author relationship there’s plenty of room for a minefield of misunderstanding,” writes Binchey in The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club. “The agent thinks the author should be speedy in the writing and the rewriting, [...]

Here are ten effective ways to make money as a freelance writer. Some are based on Kelly James-Enger’s Six Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money. Others are based on my own experience as a freelance writer, plus other writing resources, such as The Renegade Writer. 
Before the tips, a quip for writers: 
“For many writers – [...]