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When you think about writing for online markets, what type of work do you think of?
Online writing doesn’t just fall into one huge category. There is a lot more to it than that.
It’s that time of year again in my household where we stop working and give ourselves a well earned break.
Okay well it looks like my RSS feed has sorted itself out. Fingers crossed! And I thought it was about time I added another post to my Page of Fives section.
Hi there everyone; well it’s been a busy week here with lots of work for regular clients, some new work from new clients and a viral infection to top it all off with!
Online writing has a lot of benefits. Firstly if you work for yourself you have total control over what jobs you take on, how much you write and how many people you write for. But how many clients do you actually have?
It sounds glamorous doesn’t it? The idea of setting your own hours, selecting the jobs only YOU want to do, and earning however much you want to earn from your own writing efforts – it is all very alluring.
When you read this I should be somewhere in deepest Cornwall with my better half, exploring all the haunts I used to love as a kid. Ah, the beauty of being able to blog in advance and schedule my posts with Wordpress!
Working from home seems like such a breeze doesn’t it? You can get up whenever you want to, spend the day in bed if you like, write whenever the mood takes you… and work whatever hours feel right.
Money is one of the big bones of contention with lots of online writers. Some who are new to the game visit some of the big freelance bidding sites and see the lowly rates offered by some of the buyers there. They then see the freelance writers who are willing to write for those amounts. Small wonder so many would-be writers are put off from even getting started when they see those results.
I thought it was about time I added a new post to the goal setting for writers section of My Online Freelance Writing Career, so here it is. Goal setting is extremely important if you want to make sure you get the most out of your writing career as possible, and that’s why you should get used to making daily goals as quickly as possible.
Writing a blog is something you could do for lots of reasons. You could share ideas, talk about your life or blog about a hobby of yours. But if you are a writer – or you want to earn money by doing online writing jobs – then you should create a blog to help you get jobs and make that a reality.
Interesting question isn’t it? But it is worth asking yourself this question every now and again, because if the answer is no you aren’t going to enjoy your online writing career very much at all.
There is plenty of advice on goal setting out there today. I have written my own eBook on that very subject which you might find useful in this situation. “The 5 Secrets of Successful Goal Setting” gives you five essential steps to make sure you get to where you want to be.
This is something that has occurred to me lately, as I have a number of writing projects that are either started but stalled, or on the back burner. These are all projects that are for me – not for clients, but for me.
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