You have been applying to hundreds of jobs on job boards but have received no responses. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re a poor writer. You’re just not using the right strategy to land your first freelance job. Whether you’re a seasoned freelance writer or a newbie, freelance writing jobs that pay are still plentiful
Everyone has to start somewhere, but starting out as a writer can be particularly intimidating. It’s an excruciating quandary I never expected to encounter. When I started my writing career I was in a bind: to attract clients, I needed a portfolio of work, but to get work for my portfolio, I needed clients. It’s
It’s disheartening to see good writers — the ones who think carefully about every word, who can make you laugh or cry or sing with their writing — not succeed in what they are really good at. Their work takes you on an emotive rollercoaster, stirring an avalanche of unbeknown emotions, opening up crevices of
One powerful stroke of his sharpened machete severed the head cleanly, warm blood gushed out of severed arteries flowing into a blood-filled trench, running across the eastern wall of the abattoir. He was used to the sound of death, the loud bawling of dying beasts as they kicked and thrust and gasped one last time,
Did you know that as a consumer you can make extra cash for your opinions by writing reviews online? Normally, companies don’t just create distinguished products and services out of thin air. In fact, it takes a lot of research and development to provide solutions to the market. And as it turns out, consumers contribute
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Wrote Napoleon Hill in his famous book “Think and Grow Rich” It’s a mantra many famous people have embraced and achieved greatness. Writers too should embrace the same mantra. After all, they live in their minds, creating, critiquing, and churning out content. What’s your mindset about writing?
In 2017 I finally took the plunge, to express myself in words — a burning desire that had consumed my childhood dreams. I was way past the age of adventure-seeking, in my twilight thirties. I was committed to stability. Writing wasn’t just a hobby, but a life and death commitment I would do this to
I grew up in the swinging eighties. It was a time of fun and laughter, of Will Smith and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, of hot summertime Miami beaches, skimpy, sometimes naked lasses blowing hot kisses. We were a carefree generation, Osama and terror were unknown. Obama wouldn’t be President for another twenty years. The
Recently I wrote a story, a short story. It was about death, my father’s death. The story was neither morbid nor moving, it was a walk down memory lane. I was reminiscing about life, the few days we have on earth, and suddenly we are gone, our presence wiped out as if we never existed.
Writing fiction is a bucket load of fun, you are free to explore the fringes of your imagination, break a few rules, and create a new world, albeit a fictional one. The freedom expressed however has to be within the boundaries of reality if you are writing Literary fiction, a genre often ungrasped by amateur