How has your online writing career been affected by the recession?
Were your online writing efforts badly affected, or did you barely notice the recession brush past you?
Are you overwhelmed with online writing tasks - or struggling to find things to do? (with thanks to julosstock for the image)
Probably most people who have an online writing career will have been affected in one way or another by the recession. I think I have weathered it quite well all in all, but that’s not to say I haven’t had to make changes and alterations to my writing business as a consequence of the larger global picture.
Silence in the online writing world…
For example a few months back (probably around October time last year) I came back from a week’s holiday to find I didn’t have much in the way of writing work to do. I was slightly concerned but after that initial blip I resolved to go out and find more clients. I think this was the first time I ever had to consciously make that decision as a result of not having enough online writing work to do.
Luckily (or perhaps not, since I did put the work in to get the results) I came up with a couple of new jobs within the week. I am still working with one client, supplying five short articles on a weekly basis as a result of that search.
Things were relatively busy from then on until the end of January, when things got quiet again. So I repeated what I did before and once again I came up trumps. This has taught me that no matter how dire things look and how light you are on work, you can always come up with something if you just start looking and putting yourself out there.
Online writing – and the amount of it you have (or don’t have) – is under your control
Sure, I had some non starters and plenty of applications for information or actual writing jobs that didn’t come to anything. But since I decided to forget about every job application the minute I sent it off, I wasn’t really affected by all the ones that came to nothing.
I think that by focusing on the positives – the fact that I continued to find jobs worth applying for, people worth working with and so on – kept me positive and it gave me positive results as well. Not everyone will agree that positive thinking works in this sense, but that’s fine. It works for me.
So how have you been affected by the recession? Has your online writing career suffered a dip, and if it has, what have you done to get yourself back out of it again? Share your thoughts below!
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