Freelance Writing Jobs: Monday, Aptirl 30, 2006

1. Writer's Research Group
2. Unique Articles / Blog Posts
3. Contract Freelance Writers Wanted
4. Article Writer
5. Apparel Description Writing

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Well there's a few things that I hate that everyone else is noticing happening too:

1. Low pay. OK So I'll write for 1 cent per word but when offered 1/4 cent per word I start to boil.
2. Craig's List. This is a good web site for finding work but lately everything is getting flagged down by writers who simply do not want to deal with any competition.
3. Critiques. I can deal with this when they're done in a polite manner but this wasn't.
4. Rude clients. I have a client that thinks I should only write for him in the manner that he wants it written. I'm about to tell him to go fly his kite somewhere else, yet at the same time I'd like to have the money. UGGG

OK I'm done ranting and will go on about my day now. Thanks for caring enough to hear me out.

Thursday, April 26, 2006

I love my dd but I'm glad grandma has her for the day. I went for a walk to get lunch and stop at the store. I have a lot of work that I'd love to put a dent in this afternoon because I want to go to the store up town that sells beads tomorrow. It's so nice out thought that I'm glad I got out for an hour. The only bad part of my day was losing some work I'd thought was done :( Luckily the client understands. I'm going to have to be a lot more careful even though this is the first time this has ever happened during my close to end of 1st year as a freelance writer.

Wednesday, April 25, 2006

I just realized that I haven't posted anything in a few days. I didn't take Monday off as I worked that night. Then yesterday was super busy with articles to write, appointments to go to and my dd wanted to be outside too. Yesterday was a great day for finding work, hopefully some of these people will be my clients soon but it's always such a shot in the dark for me. I just hope that there will be plenty of good leads available today as well. It's only noon and I just have to look through the leads and then I'm done. I'm going to clean the house since it's raining and then we have church tonight.

Sunday, April 22, 2006

Today is D-Day: Dumping day. I've been meaning to do this for a while so I decided to jump online and do it now. What am I talking about? Dumping all of the articles that I haven't been paid for on Associated Content so that I can at least make a few (probably very few, thanks to the state of that site) dollars from stuff that I've written and clients haven't paid me for. So far I know of 6 that need to be dumped and I'm pretty sure that I have at least 10 others too. It'll be some nice spare change but I'm sure that's about all that it will be.

Otherwise, I've kept my promise and took the day off. I worked on some stained glass - finished 1 for me and started 1 for my mom. We also had dinner as a family and went to church. I really need to start slowing down as I truly enjoy having at least some time to relax and work on stuff like my stained glass each day.

Saturday, April 21, 2006

I have to keep telling myself that slow and steady wins the race. I swear I should post it somewhere to look at while I'm working each day. I've been able to cut down on my socializing online and I'm starting to teach dd how to do things for herself but I still have to go slow. Nevertheless, I've learned that I'm getting things done ahead of time and my clients are happy. I also need to keep telling myself this about finding work as well. I will keep getting enough work to keep me busy but I might only find a handful of jobs to apply for each day.

I got all of my research done, 2 articles corrected and 2 articles written. I still have 11 articles to write today but those can wait until dd goes to grandma's house this afternoon. I'm going to take some time and go outside now... See ya :D

Sometimes I could kick myself. Had I read this assignment a lot closer, I'd have been done with it a while ago UGGG

Well, I have done enough work to take the next 2 days off YAY so if I don't blog again until Tuesday, you'll know why.

Friday, April 20, 2006

Today is going to be another weird day, I can already tell. I've already read all of my homeschooling stuff and wrote 2 articles. I'm now off to do some errands and leave my daughter with her grandma for a while. I'll head back home and hopefully get some more writing done at that point in time.

I had a nice day shopping with my Mom. I bought some great crafts to do with my daughter but the 1 I really like is the 1 I purchased for myself. It's a stain glass book that you color and I'm really looking forward to working on it. Hopefully things will slow down here a bit so that I can do so.

Man, you can really tell that it is the first nice day in quite some time. There are no jobs to be had anywhere today and it's even late in the day. I was only able to send out 2 queries today UGGG At least I have some work that will keep me busy for a while.