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Develop Your Freelance Writing Career - Issue 41

July 24th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Freelance writing is changing fast. Are you floundering, or building a fabulous writing career? This issue is devoted to showing you how to develop your career creatively, and profitably.

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* Editorial: Creative Freelance Writing - Discovering The Big Wide World Of Freelance Writing

* Article: Creative Freelance Writing - Develop Your Career

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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.

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[Editorial] Creative Freelance Writing - Discovering The Big Wide World Of Freelance Writing

Whether you’re a new freelance writer, or are an established professional writer, the world of freelance writing can seem enormous and chaotic. It’s up to you to explore it, and discover your own treasures: be guided by your intention.

Will you write fiction or non-fiction? Where do you start your career? How can you develop your career so that it’s both profitable and secure? You’re your own navigator across the wide blue oceans of freelance writing. Your compass is within you, as are the navigational charts.

This week, we’re taking a big-picture view of your freelance writing career, with our article “Creative Freelance Writing - Develop Your Career”, and its accompanying mind map. You can apply the six steps at any stage of your career.

Use the mind map to think about where your own writing career is right now - it will show you the steps you need to take for success.

I hope that you find the map useful, and that it gives you the confidence to make the money that you deserve. Even more than monetary security: I hope your writing career gives you joy and satisfaction.

And now, here’s a creative way to make money out of nothing, or at least out of material that’s created and forgotten by most writers.

Web publishing: money for nothing - from “waste” material in your archives

If you’re interested in Web publishing, you’re in good company. Web publishing lets you take control of your words. When you create your own Web sites and blogs, you’re a publisher: you can monetise your sites, and turn each site into a stream of passive income. The beauty of it is, as a site grows, so does the income it produces.

A freelancing friend is thrilled with a new way she’s discovered of making extra money from her articles: she maximizes her profits by creating a Web site on the article’s topic, using material she’s written that would otherwise be wasted. I asked her to share with you how she does it:

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I specialise in health and weight loss. Over time, I’ve built up lots of published articles, AND a tsunami of research material. It occurred to me that I could make use of my research archives - my “wasted” files - by using all this extra, unpublished material for Web sites.

So now, when I publish an article, I set up a Web site of around five to ten pages. I use all the research material that I’ve collected for the article on the site, slightly re-purposed for the Web. The article buyer has only purchased the rights to the article in its final form, so I have plenty of research notes, interview transcripts and other stuff that would otherwise never see the light of day - it just clutters up my hard drives, until I move it to CD or DVD.

Now I move it to the Web. I primarily monetise the sites with affiliate products and AdSense. So, with each article I write, I’ve got a “free” site, bringing in $5 to $25 a day, magicked out of material that I usually just archive.
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Sounds good to me… Hmmm… excuse me while I go and rummage through my archives.

If you’re not up to speed on creating your own Web sites fast, “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza” gives you all the info you need.

I’ve also sourced some fantastic videos for NVU, the free site creation tool which I recommend in the ebook. I’ve used NVU for a couple of years, and still picked up some great tips.

Affectionately,

Angela

P.S. I’ve had excellent feedback on the Craigslist Profits ebook - everything you wanted to know about using Craigslist for advertising your freelance writing services and much more.

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I love it when writers call me and say “I got a client!” or “I’m booked solid for three months” - I expect that, so it’s very satisfying.

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“Seven Days To Easy Money: Copywriting Success” is your key a great lifestyle and security for you and your family.
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** New Writing Opportunity “Beat Your Paycheck! Web Writing SECRETS” **

“How Make More Money With Web Writing Than You Ever Will With A Paycheck… In A Month Or Less”

Even if you’re a new writer, you can make enough money from Web writing to leave your day job - fast.

As a writing teacher, I work with new writers every day. Many would love to leave their day job, but they don’t yet have the skills to write copy for corporate clients, or for national magazines. Writing in your home office seems like a dream. Many promising writers give up writing because their lives are too busy - with a full-time job and family, they’re too tired to write.

If this describes YOU, I’ve found a solution. I asked a new writer who’s making great money writing for the Web to share his secrets. He’s happy to do so. Read my new ebook.

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* Article: Creative Freelance Writing - Develop Your Career

(c) 2007 Angela Booth. All Rights Reserved.

Download a larger version of the mind map accompanying this article-

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Building your freelance writing career is challenging. Over the years I’ve come to understand that this is because of uncertainty.

As freelance writers, we’re always wondering whether an article, a book, or a piece of copy will succeed, and whether we’ll be paid. This uncertainty leads to a lack of creativity (we’re unwilling to try new stuff in case it’s a waste of time), and procrastination (because our bread and butter writing sometimes bores us silly).

So, I’ve developed a mind map of a career plan/ path for business writers. The path has six steps. The aim is to minimize uncertainty, and build your confidence by showing you an eagle’s eye view.

I’ve summarized it on a mind map - download the larger version here:
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Create your own mind maps to visualize your own personal career path: they can give you a sense of security and they will help you to be more creative too.

CREATIVITY - is vital in everything you do: aim to be creative

I make the point on the map: creativity counts.

Trust YOUR creative promptings. In 1997 ago a novelist was one of the first writers to send out a complete novel via email to anyone who subscribed to his email list. He had 10,000 people subscribed, and he sent out each chapter as he completed it, completely free.

He got a lot of reaction and buzz, and that buzz led to sales for the novel when it was eventually published by a traditional publishing house. I haven’t tracked his career, but the last I heard his books were selling very well. Many people blog novels now, of course, but a decade ago, sending a novel out a chapter at a time was risky; he took the risk, and profited.

So whatever you do in your writing career, TRUST your intuitive creative promptings, even if they seem weird and silly to others - they’re your treasure map to your personal pot of gold.

So here’s one way to develop your freelance writing career, in six steps.

1. It all starts with intention for your freelance writing career

Intention is everything. Think about what your intention is for your freelance career. Then write your intention down, it’s vital. Your overall intention could be to make money as a full-time writer, to explore your writing gifts, or to develop a skill that you can use profitably as a second income, or as a new career.

2. Target - create goals, both money and process goals

Set goals. You need money goals, as well as process goals. How much money do you want to make this month, and how many sales do you need to make to achieve that goal?

Process goals -set a goal for the number of words you write per day, or the number of articles completed each week. (See Step #4, ACT.)

Remember that creativity is chaotic. Make your peace with that in any way you can.

3. Passion before profits

Be passionate about your writing. It’s hard to build a career when you don’t love what you do.

4. ACT!

Write. Send out material. Make contacts. Nothing succeeds like action. Please understand that you have no responsibility for what you can’t control - that is, for the outcome of your actions. Your only responsibility is to ACT.

5. Your body of work works for you

The more you write, the greater your body of work, and the more writing gigs you will get. Your body of work does all your promotion for you, as more people hear your name.

This is why writers write for “free” online… displaying a large body of work encourages people: your enthusiasm attracts. It’s magnetic.

6. Promote - promotions are cumulative

Marketing and promoting your writing is non-negotiable. In my blogs I hammer the fact that you can’t get paid well unless people know your name. They must know who you are: your name makes you a price maker, rather than a price taker.

So there you go: six steps to developing an outstanding freelance career. I hope it helps you to be the success you were born to be.

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** The Perfect Article Writing System - the perfect way to make money writing - even for beginners **

I’m always looking for fun, easy ways to make money writing, and this is one of the easiest ever. When I found this ebook I knew I had to pass it on to you. You’ll love it, especially if you’ve heard all the talk about writers making six-figure incomes and wondered… how do they do that?

Some of them do it very easily, by writing simple articles, as you’ll find out in this excellent ebook, Turn Content Into Cash: Article Success Secrets. If you’re a writer who’s been dreaming of a way to make money writing quickly, then this ebook I’ve dubbed the “Perfect Article Writing System” is for you.

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** Imagine… $1,000 A Week For Just Ten Hours **

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.

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* The Unlimited Writing Market, The Web **

When you write for the Web, you’re never out of writing work. All Web sites need writers, and as the competition online grows, site owners hire writers to improve their sites.

The writing world in general hasn’t caught up with the Web. Now, YOU can — and you can cash in. Freelance writers just don’t realize how much money there is to be made by writing for the Web: many writers use the Web as a research tool, they don’t see the Web as a mass of millions of markets. They don’t realize that Web sites are STARVED for good writers.

Want to get paid REAL money to write? How does $150 an hour sound to you? Discover how to write for the Web today.

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