Keeping it much shorter today, I absolutely *had* to share what I think is the most important email newsletter for writers. Produced by the team at FreedomWithWriting.com, the newsletter is a weekly affair with several links to magazines and websites that accept freelance contributions. Sign up here. Better still, Freedom with Writing also produces…
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The Time Has Come to Share Some Freelance Writing Tips
I first started freelancing back in 2004 as a way to generate extra income for my impending wedding. It didn’t go too well at first, but I persisted, happily supported by a wife and monetarily backed by my day job. By 2007 things were going well enough to require a business bank account. That…
Keeping a Diary – 12 Months Later
It recently occurred to me that that time I’ve put aside to write a diary for the past 12 months — since January 1st 2016 — could just as easily have been used to talk a bit more right here. So I’ve decided to do both. 2016 was a memorable year for many…
When Should Writers Stop Waiting for Feedback?
I could be playing a videogame. Or I could be revising Aliens vs Nazis for the 90th time. As it is, I’m wondering about the fate of a couple of scripts that I’ve entered into competitions (Red Planet and BBC Writers Room) in the past 6 months. I’ve no doubt that neither has…
RIP Android Magazine – My First Print Gig
Well, that was a lot of fun while it lasted. Sadly, Android Magazine is no more, with issue 63 its final edition. Back in early 2013 I was contacted by then-editor Andy Betts, who had seen some of my Android-related articles on MakeUseOf.com. He was interested in bringing me in as a freelancer,…
People Still Rewrite Your Articles. Really.
Amazing. People still expend energy on the pointless, low-paying slog that is “article rewriting”. This is, for those of you who don’t know, the “art” of taking an existing article and rewriting it. There’s no additional research; it isn’t being inspired by an article and taking the concepts in a new direction, reinterpreting as…
Next eBook: Research Your Family Tree Online
I’m delighted to say that I’ve started work on a new eBook for MakeUseOf, currently titled Research Your Family Tree Online! Although covering the use of Ancestry.com’s vast archive of census, immigration and military records, the guide will also look at offline methods of data collation for family tree research as these are…
My Latest Ebook: From Print To Kindle And Beyond
I’ve just discovered that my latest eBook, From Print To Kindle And Beyond, has been published. Available through MakeUseOf and on Amazon for Kindle devices, the book draws on my experiences writing and publishing Ultimate Regeneration in 2010-2011. For me, the process was a massive learning curve. Really the only advantage I had…
What I’ve Learned This Week
For some reason I expected the first week of freelancing to be pretty uneventful. After all, the idea for the first couple of months is to multiply four-fold the amount of freelancing I was doing already. I had also managed to secure a new position writing for www.devicemag.com (a great technical resource) so…
