The Ups and Downs of Freelancing

Freelancers have good and bad times, the ups and downs of freelancing often take writers by surprise.

What To Do When There's No Paid Work

Most writers wonder what to do when there's no paid work and no money coming in. There are a few things that you can do to ease the pressure. Try paid blogging with blogitive, ok it is only $5 a post but they do pay weekly though paypal. You can also submit articles to Associated Content and Constant Content, both of these will publish your articles and visitors can then choose whether they want to buy. There is also pay per post, review stream and helium - although it can take a while with the last two before you earn any money. Comment on other people's blogs and leave a link to your website. These are all ways to try and beat the problem of slow work periods.

Freelancing Fears

When you are a freelance writer and depend on that income to pay your bills then there is always the fear that the work may dry up. Freelance writing can be a chancy business and no matter how much time you might spend bidding for work, there is no guarantee that you will get it.

Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

When you start to get the freelancing fears then the only way out of the problem is through it. As Susan Jeffers said in her 1987 book you have to "Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway." Fear never really deserts us but how we handle that fear can mean the difference between failure and success; which is why so many writers just work through that fear.

Write With Passion

I am not just suggesting that other writers write with passion because it is also something that I need to do myself. It is all too easy for our writing to become stale. This is especially the case when it comes to freelancing on the web, by the time you have written the umpteenth article on a particular subject your writing loses its freshness.

Do Something Else

If your writing begins to sound stale to you then it is time to do something else. Go for a walk, read a book or read other blogs. I find that if I read certain blogs if fires my enthusiasm and I can get some of the freshness back in my writing. If you think that your writing is sounding stale then find something else to do for a while.