“Become a successful freelance writer. You can make money from your own home just using words.” The promise sounded too good to be true, and in some ways it was too good to be true. But it there was a lot of truth to what was said. Over the months and years of pursuing the…
Building a successful writing career requires a desire to challenge the way things are in order to get a place where you want to be. Nothing is ever accomplished with dreams alone. I have to put force behind the dreams to drive them to reality. Five Dos that Challenge the Ordinary 1. Do more today…
Writing for a living requires that I build up a flow of words that can secure my success in freelance. Most of the writers I know want to write what they want to write. I discovered that building a career often requires that I write what I can write so that I can get to…
Writing for a living seems like a dream, even though I have been doing it for the last five years. The idea that I can sit at a computer and write words that entertain or inform others – AND GET PAID – takes my breath away. They might say that it is wrong that I…
Each morning starts with a quick look at my statistics for Successful Freelance Writer (and all of my other sites). I look to see which articles are getting the most views and how readers are getting to my site. Today I found a new website – two actually. Get in the Hot Spot is a…
“If I had a reason to get up then I would probably get up earlier.” The words were not my own but I could have easily put them into a phrase as well that deals with my freelance writing. Mine would have been about getting paid to write or having a place to write or…
Success is the only option. Once doubt settles into my mind and heart it will allow me to be tossed about – like the waves – from one idea or project or plan to another. There will no longer be any steady direction to my path. I will not go there. My senses are all…
There are times when I feel like the people closest to me recent me the most. Nothing they actually do or say cries out the foul, but it’s almost something in their eyes or tone of voice. It seems to say “you are not really working and it is not fair you are getting paid.