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.
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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 MoreIf, 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?
Read MoreNotebook and Pencil, by Terry Freedman
Do you know about types of copyright and moral rights?
Read MoreHow can you start writing a book if you don’t know where to start?
Read MoreSeminar, by Terry Freedman
Why you should do some public speaking.
Read MoreJust 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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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 MoreHere are seven handy techniques with which to enrich your writing. Used sparingly, they can be very effective at bringing a piece to life.
Read MoreWhen should you use bullet points, and when numbers? And when checkboxes? Read on to find out.
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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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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 MoreYou 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.
Read Morewriter, by Terry Freedman
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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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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What ultimately matters to the freelance writer, of course, is how many commissions you’re offered.
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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 MoreIf you think it, write it. Photo = Reflections, by Elaine Freedman
Dr Johnson said that nobody but a blockhead ever wrote for anything except money. I have a great deal of sympathy with this view, but I don’t altogether agree with it.
Read MoreWhat do good writers have that bad writers don't?
Read MoreDeadline! By Terry Freedman
How do I handle deadlines?
Read MoreMy upcoming course on blogging is not a technical course, meaning that if you want to know how to set up a blog on Wordpress or something, this course is not for you.
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