How I Get Paid to Write About Local History by Charles Culbertson
Do you have to be a historian to cash in on writing about the history of your community? Nope!
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4 Simple Ways Freelance Writers Can Find New Gigs – Fast! by Monique Danao
In this article, I’ll talk about some of the best places where you can find freelance gigs, and how you can land clients that you actually want to work with.
Ghostwriting Executive Blog Posts Can Be QUITE Lucrative! by Annie Mueller
In the past 13 years, I’ve learned a few things from ghostwriting blog posts for executives…
How to Find Writing Work on Reddit! by Angely Mercado
The first inkling that Reddit, a site dedicated to trolling and weird photos, would actually be beneficial to my writing career was after I found…
How I Get Article Ideas From Newspaper Archives by Elizabeth Yetter
Sometimes I would pick an unusual word or phrase to research through the archives, such as eugenics or chewing gum, and I would find articles on the views of the time or the latest trends. This led me to write articles on the viewpoints of eugenics in the early 1900s and another article on the chewing gum trends of the early 1900s. Both of these articles were accepted for publication.
How to Use Writer Retainer Agreements to Keep Your Business in the Black by Jennifer Brown Banks
Writer’s Agreements can be the ticket to economic stability and freelance success.
How I Turned LinkedIn Into a Freelance Lead Generating Machine…in Just 15 Minutes! by Lindsey Danis
With just 15 minutes of work, I created a lead generating machine that’s brought me 1-2 leads per week and helped me land one big client. Here’s what I did and how I’d advise other writers to use the site to attract clients.
Oooooh! Getting PAID to Eavesdrop! by Jeanine DeHoney
We were often told not to eavesdrop as children. As a writer though, eavesdropping is the quintessence of good fiction. It gives us a bird’s eye view of other people’s voices and their melodramas. We hear their inflections, their accents if they are from a different country, and get the chance to obtain information about their life. This adds another layer to our characters as we begin to build their profile. It also makes our fiction more relatable; fiction editors are more prone to publish and readers are more inclined to read.
REWRITING EXECUTIVE PROFILES?! LinkedIn’s Largely Untapped Goldmine! By Kevin MacConkey
Take one look through your LinkedIn connections and their profiles and it becomes increasingly clear how bad some people are in the English language. Someone should help these folks and straighten out their grammar and their, they’re, there’s.
What I’ve figured out through some inquisition and experimentation, is that most business people would gladly pay to have us professional writers rewrite their profiles and even ghostwrite their published posts for them.
How I Earned An Extra $15K Last Year Selling Family Secrets By Rich Bivins
I had no idea that, when I crafted these family heirloom books, I would soon be earning a decent return for my time and a stream of cash flow for doing something I love to do anyway. It all started when my mom shared her new biography with her neighbor in Florida.