Being A Freelance Writer …

Some points of (possible) interest on what it means to be a Freelance Writer:

If you’re a freelance writer, you’re free! Obvious, right, you can write what to want to write, yes? Well yes, but if you rely on that writing for your income, you’re only as free as your expenses to be paid allows you to be. Writing for a living means if you don’t write, there’s no money coming in.

Being a Freelance Writer means you have to source places and people who will be willing to pay you for your written words. And once you find them, you will have to provide them with what they wish to have, so they will pay you.

A Freelance Writer may write for businesses, or other people, or they may present the public with their self-published works, with the intention (hope) people will pay them to get a copy of that work. Books, subscriptions, magazines, newletters, these are options the Freelance Writer might choose to use to ‘sell’ their words.

Freelance Writers may also seek to do public speaking, or to write speeches for others to present to their audience, in whichever format is suitable for that person.

Freelance Writers might be struggling to get through the various options and methods to share their words and be in financial distress, or they may have many people desperate to have access to them and their words, and be willing to pay, and pay well for the privilege of having such access. The more usual way is for the Freelance…