Show Up And Sell Your Writing Right Now - Issue 47 Fab Freelance Writing Ezine

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Show Up And Sell Your Writing Right Now - Issue 47 Fab Freelance Writing Ezine

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

You know my motto is: WRITE! This week’s article will ensure that you develop the lucrative writing career that you deserve. Enjoy.

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Includes:

* Editorial: Show Up For Your Writing

* Article: Show Up And Sell Your Writing Right Now

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** The Secret To Getting All The Writing Gigs You Want, Free **

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I’ve been sharing my writing gig-getting secrets with my writing students for years, but this nifty way of getting writing gigs and selling products deserves to be more widely known. Here it is - Craigslist. Craiglist is completely free to use to get writing and editing gigs.

I recently stumbled across the The Craigslist Profits Guide and knew I had to share it with you. It enables you to use Craigslist to its fullest potential. I’ve been using Craigslist for years, and many of the ideas were completely new to me.

It’s 41 pages packed with info, and here’s the best news: you can profit from this ebook when you sell it to others.

So go ahead - this ebook has to be one of the big bargains of 2007. Without hyping it too much, if you use the tactics described, you can double and triple what you make from your writing this year -

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**Build your writing career, and make a great income from home**

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[Editorial] Show Up For Your Writing

You know my motto is: WRITE! This week’s article will ensure that you develop the lucrative writing career that you deserve. Enjoy.

Nice profits in developing your own niche Web sites and selling them

Web publishing - developing your own Web sites - is a great way to make money writing. This week a reader sent me this message -

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I bought “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” a couple of months ago… Wanted you to be the first to know. I offered one of my first sites for sale…. The bidding war is amazing, now the top offer is almost $25,000…
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From what Debbie S. says, the site in question only has ten pages, but Deb chose a great domain name, and the niche is in an area which is heating up. The deal is currently in final negotiation. Congratulations to Deb.

This shows you what’s possible online. Deb isn’t making as much money as Ashley in the Fast Company story here www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html (not yet anyway), but she tells me her aim is to sell at least a site a month.

Until next week.

Affectionately,

Angela

P.S. Watch for my new ebook on Private Label Content, it will make a great companion to “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” at www.abwebconsulting.com/web_sites/
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** You Can Become A Web Publisher Too: Become A Web Mogul **

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For the past year, I’ve been receiving messages from writers who want to create their own Web sites. They’ve heard how much money there is in Web publishing, and want a piece of the action.

So, I’ve written a new ebook, “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” - www.abwebconsulting.com/web_sites/

The ebook (and its fabulous bonus ebook) outlines step by step, with images, how to create Web MONEY-MAKING sites fast. What could YOU do with an extra $300 a day?
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** Imagine… $1,000 A Week For Just Ten Hours **

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You can get paid to blog. The current rate for experienced bloggers is around $1,000 to $1500 a week for from two to five posts a day - VERY nice writing income.

Find out how to blog with the blogging best-seller “Blogging For Dollars: How to become a career blogger — in your PJs, if you want”. It’s my complete new ebook package, with free coaching/ consultations as well. Find out more at: www.abmagic.com/Blog/blogging.html

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* Article: Show Up And Sell Your Writing Right Now

(c) 2007 Angela Booth. All Rights Reserved.

What if I said to you that I can guarantee that you’ll be published? Or, if you’re already published, that I can guarantee that you’ll sell as much of your writing as you want to sell?

I can and I do promise you that. If you do one thing, just one, and do it consistently, you won’t ever need to worry about people paying you to write.

Here it is: SHOW UP.

Yep, that’s all there is to it. Commit to SHOWING UP.

Writers who aren’t selling, or who have problems selling, do one of two things; they either try too hard, or don’t try hard enough.

They try too hard in the sense of thinking of the sale before, during and after they write, instead of forgetting about sales while they’re in the process of writing. Thinking about selling while you’re writing chokes off your creative flow.

Or they wait for the sales of their work to give them validation. This means that they’re too busy listening and hoping for sales and kudos, rather than just writing and sending their work out. If you wait to sell before you write more, your output will be abysmal. What if it takes you a year to sell Project A? In the year you wait, you could have written 50 more projects.

Get your work out there

Most writers just don’t show up. Woody Allen once said that 80 per cent of success was in just showing up, but I’m inclined to think it’s more like 95 per cent.

I’ve lost count of the number of editors who’ve told me that two out of three writers just don’t do what they say they’ll do. We’re talking both professionals and aspiring writers. If you show up, editors will work with you. If you don’t, they can’t. Editors want to help you to write for them, they have publications they need to fill.

Many writers get into a rut where they send out magazine proposals consistently. They know how to write article proposals, but then panic when asked to write the complete article. They sign a contract, but then don’t deliver on it.

My Prentice Hall book editor often said to me: “You’re my favourite writer. You do what you say you’ll do.” A women’s magazine editor said to me: “If you send me a query, I know you’ll send me the contracted article. Many writers don’t bother.”

Editors get frustrated. Is it any wonder that they take a dim view of freelancers?

In my writing classes, I encourage writers to forget about themselves, and to start thinking of their editors and readers. If you stop being self-conscious, you’ll be successful.

Write. Get the material to an editor. Repeat the process.

Just write

Kill your internal editor, that yammering voice in your head that has a thousand and one comments on your work, and they’re all bad.

How do you do this? The only way is to get so interested in what you’re writing that you forget the editor.

Relax. Give yourself permission to write. Write a lot, much more than you need. Don’t send the extra words to your editor, however. Cut your copy to the correct word length. If you give yourself permission to write a lot the act of writing will help you to discover what you want to say.

So for an article of 1000 words, write 2000, or even 3000, however many words it takes you to loosen up. And don’t take forever over it, either. Set a timer. Work out how long it takes you to write 250 words, and then force yourself to write that number of words in that amount of time. I can usually write 1000 words an hour, so if I’m feeling tense for any reason, I force myself to write faster. I don’t take any notice of awkward word choices, or typos. I want to know what I have to say about this topic.

If you force yourself — and you’ll only need to force for a few minutes until you get interested in what you’re doing — you’ll relax enough to write easily, and you’ll enjoy the writing process.

Make a commitment: it’s only a draft

Most of your writing will go through several drafts. If I’m writing copy for a client, for example, I know that it will go through a couple of drafts with the client, do I don’t knock myself out in my initial two drafts, which are for my eyes only.

Who cares how crappy the first draft is? No one will read that draft except you. Relax. Write whatever you want to write, and ignore your internal editor.

You’ll find that you’re a poor judge of the quality of your writing while you’re writing. You’ll be amazed when you come back to read a draft that it’s much better than you thought it was.

Treat your creative work like a business

All businesses have processes and procedures for their work. You need them too. Work out a process for whatever kind of writing you’re doing.

Formalize it, by creating a checklist for it.

For example, to write a magazine article, your checklist may look something like this:

1. Get idea;

2. Pre-write, so I can discover what I think;

3. Write a draft of the article proposal;

4. Send proposal to editor;

5. If no response in two weeks, send to next editor on list. Make any adjustments needed;

6. Sign contract for the article;

7. Write draft of article immediately on signing;

Etc, etc.

Showing up depends on you. Please show up. Your successful writing career depends on it.

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