Helpful hints for starting your freelance writing business
Advice for launching a freelance writing career, including tips on querying, interviews, writing, copyediting, and working with editors.
Good Reads: Webcomics and paywalls, best long-form reads of 2012, unanswered email, and more
Debate over Andrew Sullivan’s subscriber-based blog continues, plus the best stories of 2012. why editors don’t reply to email, and more.
7 steps to becoming a trend spotting ace
If you can identify changes in how people behave or how the world works, you can turn them into story ideas, and have editors begging to work with you.
Top 10 things writers should check before turning in a story
Just because you finished writing doesn’t mean your story is ready to submit. Here’s a handy list of things to check before hitting “Send.”
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Modern signs an editor likes you [Discussion]
Freelancing’s changed and so has how editors show their appreciation for good work. Weigh in on the new ways an editor told you “Great job!” in this open thread.
Back to school means back to work
With Labor Day behind us and kids in class, it’s time to refocus on work. Here are 12 things writers can do to be recharged and ready for the rest of the year.
7 secrets about editors every freelance writer should know
Look past the rejections and sometimes curt behavior and you’ll see most editors are just trying to get their jobs done, and looking for writers who can help.
Dear WordCount: A source doesn’t like my story, what should I do?
This installment of the weekly freelance writing advice column deals with disgruntled sources: is it better to tell your editor, or handle it yourself?
Editors want freelance regulars for ‘arms length embrace’
Publications are just as interested in working with you as you are in working with them. Really.
