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5 Ways to Land Freelance Writing Assignments
I love anniversaries—and not just the one I celebrate each June with my lovely wife. Newsworthy milestones of all sorts can mean big bucks for savvy freelance writers. Over the years, I’ve landed...
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5 Tips to Help You Land Freelance Assignments That Pay
Freelance writing is one of the best gigs. You get to be your own boss and write about whatever you want. But freelance assignments don’t generally just fall in your lap. Here are five tips that will...
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How Much Can an Editor Edit My Work?
Q: A publication I write for regularly just changed editors. The new editors are just ripping my work apart, even rewriting the leads and some sections, or sending stories back to me asking for...
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8 Steps To Help Secure Your Beyonce Interview
Whether you’re a rookie or veteran freelance writer, you’ll always have to create story pitches to entice new clients or keep old ones. Some may include speaking with a high profile interview subject...
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The 8 Secrets of Great Copywriting
Forty years as a copywriter has taught me that copywriting is part trench work, part cliff diving, part Hemingway, a little Lewis and Clark, and all about telling the truth. During my career, I learned...
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How Not to Lose Assignments & Infuriate Editors
Editors? We’re divas. If we don’t find a two-liter of premium coffee, 10 fine-point red Sharpies and a bowl of 3,000 blue M&Ms waiting at our desks when we get to work in the morning, we pretty...
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Freelance Writing: 10 Ways to Satisfy Editors & Land More Assignments
Getting assignments right the first time is key to a successful freelance career. Here are 10 ways to satisfy editors from the start.Recently, I was finishing up a profile about the CEO of an...
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Is a Freelancing Career in Writing Feasible?
Q: I want to quit my day job and freelance full time, but I’m nervous that I won’t be able to make enough money to pay my bills. Can I really make a living as a freelance writer? —Carson B.There are...
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25 Tips To Make You a Better Nonfiction Writer
We writers share one thing in common: We exist for the moment a reader gently sets eyes to our first word, our first sentence. From that instant forward, our fate is in our own hands. Either they keep...
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Copywriting: A Crash Course for Writers Looking to Break In
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A FREE PREVIEW OF THIS TUTORIALDo you know what Dashiell Hammett, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dorothy Sayers had in common? Besides being among the world’s finest novelists, they all...
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