“You’d better find a bartending job,” my then-agent told me in 1987 when I left my position as Special Features Editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine to start freelancing full-time. Not confidence-building and not helpful. I clearly did figure out how to make it as a writer, but I sure wish I’d been able to turn to the following websites for insights and inspiration while cobbling together my freelance writing career:
- The Freelance Beat – From anchor clients to commissions, national journalist Tatiana Walk-Morris shares lessons she’s learned in the three years she’s been freelancing. Her blog posts also include valuable resources like Who Pays Writers, a website that lists the various writing outlets’ rates, and my personal favorite, The Writer’s Market‘s invaluable survey “How Much Should I Charge?” While The Writer’s Market website is currently being re-tooled, you can find a copy of the survey here.
- Make a Living Writing – With a bank of more than 1,200 posts about everything from how to attain and deal with freelance clients to the variety of freelance markets and how to move up on that ladder, this blog is all about getting paid to write.
- The Freelance Creative by Contently – An excellent source for information on trends, resources and the latest freelancer-related news. This site even posts paying gigs.
- The Quiet Type – For those of you interested in copywriting rather than magazine writing, this blog shares “tips and advice on freelance writing, running a freelance biz, and entrepreneurship to help people just like you pursue your dreams of working from home.”
- Travel Writing World – You’ll find tools, apps, and advice on everything from writing a travel memoir to how meditation can help you capture a sense of place.
- New Shelves Books – This website, which focuses on taking “authors from published to profitable,” offers author education, publishing consulting and book marketing programs. President Keri-Rae Barnum impressed me so much that I asked her to team up with my self-publishing company Incubation Press, where she handles distribution, promotion and more.
I hope these websites help propel you along the way to building your freelance writing career. If I can help, just holler.
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