Why is negotiating essential for the professional writer?
Read MoreThe Professional Writer: Negotiating Revisited
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Vote with your feet -- aka life's too short
Some years ago I stopped accepting work from editors who liked everything about my work apart from paying me.
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Write for you for "exposure"? You're having a laugh, mate!
This is an updated version of an updated version of an article I originally published on this very website in 2015. In my experience, it absolutely applies to artists, teachers and other creatives as well as writers or consultants.
Read MoreLearning the tools of your trade
Observe any specialist, and they know exactly which tool they need for a particular job. Writers, too, should know what tools they need, and how to use them.
Read MoreHow to store clippings -- updated
How do you keep your clippings?
10 pound note, by Terry Freedman
Latest article in the Write! newsletter 14 October 2025
Freebies work!
Read Morefreelancing vs authoring part 1, v2, update 2
If, like me, you enjoy writing and you would like to earn money from it, should you go down the freelance writing route or write books, or both?From my experience, here are the pros and cons of freelancing.
Read MoreFreelancing vs authoring Part 2: Authoring (update v2)
If, like me, you enjoy writing and you would like to earn money from it, should you go down the freelance writing route or write books, or both?
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Notebook and Pencil, by Terry Freedman
The Professional Writer: Know Your Rights (Revisited)
Do you know about types of copyright and moral rights?
Read MoreHow I write: books (Updated)
How can you start writing a book if you don’t know where to start?
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Seminar, by Terry Freedman
Nonfiction notebook: Three reasons that non-fiction authors should speak
Why you should do some public speaking.
Read MoreA few of my reference books
Just because I love technology and spend a lot of time on the web, and writing for the web, doesn’t mean I’ve eschewed books.
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Nonfiction notebook: Foreword, Preface or Introduction?
I was faced with a conundrum: should I write a Preface to the 3rd Edition, a Foreword to the 3rd Edition, or just stuff it all into the Introduction and be done with it?
Read More7 useful literary techniques
Here are seven handy techniques with which to enrich your writing. Used sparingly, they can be very effective at bringing a piece to life.
Read MoreLists: Bullets or numbers or checkboxes?
When should you use bullet points, and when numbers? And when checkboxes? Read on to find out.
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Remuneration
This is an updated version of an article I published on this website in 2015. In my experience, it absolutely applies to artists, teachers and other creatives as well as writers or consultants.
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I never have writer's block, but...
So the great prolificist had run out of ideas, eh? Well actually no: I had the opposite problem. I’d had so many ideas and corresponding false starts that I was floundering in a sea of ideas.
Read MoreUsing codes when note-taking -- republished with discussion
You might think that recording an interview, and then transcribing it using an app like Otter, would be much faster than writing everything down at the time.
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writer, by Terry Freedman
How I earned $9000 from a free paper
Not many writers can make a living solely from their writing. (Figures released this month in the UK put the figure at only 19%.) Therefore, think creatively of other ways to make money.
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Yeah, I run a business. So what?
I pitched an article to a newspaper that, it turns out, pays less if the article has been written by someone who runs their own business. Why?
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