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How to get Freelance Writing Work?
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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There can be many different strategies and all of them might work.
Strategy #1
Read, Writers Market.
Focus on what type of writing you wish to do and which periodicals publish such pieces.
Read those periodicals and become experts on their style and content.
Make sure the odds are in your favor by checking Writers Market if the publications accept new writers and your personal circumstances matches the requirements of the periodicals.
Write some evergreen pieces which are not time sensitive. Have people you respect critique your work. Settle on your top ten articles.
Read Writers Market for submission info. They have sections with advice and stories by other writers about their efforts to be published.
Follow that advice.
Strategy #2
Become an expert at something that interests you and send your well thought out and well written pieces to the Editor of your local newspaper.
Keep your clippings in a nice portfolio to show prospective clients and also include them in your own website.
Whenever you write and submit anything call yourself a freelance writer in print and in person and over the phone. Practice saying it aloud. Let it roll naturally from your lips and with no hesitation of sense of humility or embarrassment. Matter of factly. I drive a Honda Accord, I'm married and have two kids and I'm a freelance writer. Just like that. Even before you have anything published. Your brain will register the sound and then subconsciously work to make that statement a reality.
There's too much to advise. Just read what you can about freelancing from the net. There's tons of advice.
Good luck.
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Learn to capitalize properly, for starters...
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RAILhead:
Not you again. What should I capitalize?
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"Life is the crummiest book I ever read. There isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots, pictures to shock, and characters an amateur would never dream up." (Bad Religion)
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