Writing Effective Titles for the Web

Writing titles and headlines for the web is much different than writing them for print. When readers take a print newspaper or magazine in their hands, they know what they wants to read and know that they’ll find it there. But with the web, readers generally search for articles to read or to find information. [...]

Freelance Writers and Time Management

Generally when you tell people that someone’s a freelance writer, the first reaction is, “Aah, so he is doing nothing”. Others, who do realize that freelance writing is actually work, think that it’s easy working from home. While the fact is that working from home is much harder than working outside your home. When you [...]

Best Place to Work

This is for all the freelance writers who work from home: What is the best place you can work without any distraction? Do you have any specific place, or can you work anywhere? Please share your views and experiences here. We’d like to know what suits most writers.

Stay Motivated When Writing Is Boring

Staying motivated when writing for yourself is at times hard enough, but when you’re writing for someone else…. well, it’s not that easy, especially when the topic is one that you’re least interested in. This is what freelance writing is all about – having to write about things that interest your client, not you. But [...]

The Importance of Perseverance

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson I have often been asked what I consider to be the most important ingredient for success in freelance writing.  Well, to me, there are many important ingredients, some of which I have discussed in previous [...]