Jennifer Escalona tells it like it is
So you’ve read The Quick and Dirty Guide to Landing Freelance Writing Jobs, Part 1 and you are poised to get started. You have your website up, your unique selling proposition showcased and even your great aunt Myrtle knows that you are looking for freelance writing work.
You’re prepared like Rocky. The championship next great gig [...]
“The Quick and Dirty Guide to Landing Freelance Writing Jobs” encapsulates the entire reason I started this blog. This little series is going to consist of the shortest possible answers I can muster to that age old question, “How do I get freelance writing jobs?”
I started freelance writing and realized that, while there are a [...]
Today’s guest post is written by my good friend Vanessa Knauf. Vanessa and I met in graduate school and I like to think I inspired her to go for a freelance writing career. So just let me live with that fantasy, okay? And, as you can see from this guest post, Vanessa is going about [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
25 Jun 2009It’s Thursday and you know what that means, it’s time again for SpecialtyBuzz! SpecialtyBuzz is where I post an interview with a freelance writer who specializes in a certain type of writing or a certain subject matter. This week I am proud to feature Ali Hale. The freelance writing world has been buzzing about Ali [...]
In: Worthy Wednesday
24 Jun 2009Every Wednesday I share a link that I consider “Google Reader Worthy,” meaning that every single post, article, picture, fact, etc. is so great that it deserves to be in your Google Reader* so that you don’t miss a thing.
This week’s Worthy Wednesday Pick: Freelance Writing Jobs
I’m probably preaching to the choir here when I [...]
*Check out my post “Freelance Writing Stock Characters: The Annoying Client” over at FreelanceWriterville.com. Do you have a Debbie Disagreement or Quentin Questioner in your client cast of characters?*
Yesterday Laura over at Freelance Folder posted “Learning to Say ‘No’ Nicely – How to Keep From Burning Bridges.” Sheepishly deciding that maybe someone could learn from [...]
I like to say, “yes.” I like to give encouragement, advice, and even the occasional bracing hug. (But only if I know you really well, so don’t get any ideas.) I also intend this blog for beginning freelance writers, baby birds with your beaks open, chirping away for small, slimy worms of wisdom to sustain [...]
In: SpecialtyBuzz
18 Jun 2009It’s Thursday, and that means it’s SpecialtyBuzz time. Every Thursday I interview a freelance writer who has made their living by specializing in a particular field. Today’s SpecialtyBuzz writer is John Soares. John is going to teach us all about the world of textbook supplement writing, so if you are interested in education writing [...]
In: Worthy Wednesday
17 Jun 2009Instead of doing my usual Worthy Wednesday post extolling the virtues of a blog that you absolutely must have plugged into your RSS feed reader, I’m taking today to celebrate Father’s Day early and promote the Good Dad Honor Roll. (And yes, I’m also doing this for you guys. Truly. Many people find Dad hard [...]
I recently wrote several posts about my venture writing for Examiner.com. At the time I was interested in the chance to get local press (like a fellow Atlanta Examiner frequently did) and to write small posts every day about a topic on my niche. I’m sorry to say, though, that with the site’s traffic and [...]
Your source for full-time and freelance writing, social media and community management jobs in the Atlanta area and beyond. Subscribe via email or RSS for unadvertised jobs as well as jobs from hidden (and not so hidden) places around the internet. Now with words of wisdom here and there from freelance writing and social media old salt Jennifer Escalona.