If you have been looking for a way to pay for college, you are not alone. You may be a parent who needs to make extra money to send your child to college, or you may be a student who is trying to minimize the money you borrow from student loans. College can be expensive,…
Many people who work from home either struggle to stay motivated to work all day or struggle to “turn it off” and stop working. As a freelance writer, you may fall into the latter group. You may absolutely love to write, and you enjoy using your creative talents to make money. Perhaps you have financial…
If you seem to be working for hours on end as a freelance writer and barely make enough money to make ends meet, you are not alone. Many freelance writers are barely scraping by, despite putting their best foot forward at the job. Other freelance writers, however, seem to be living the good life. They…
It is estimated that the average blogger makes about $500 per month, but there is significant variation in this from blogger to blogger. Some bloggers make one new post every few weeks, and it may be a lower quality or less interesting post. Others may spend hours of their time each day writing engaging posts…
While there are a few unethical freelance writers who earn a living copying the work of others, most freelance writers would never dream of copying the work of another writer. Many clients use Copyscape today to check a freelance writer’s work for plagiarism. The site scans your work against other work that has already been…
Some freelance writers love to work on a wide range of projects that cover a diverse range of topics. As a freelance writer, you do have the ability to research and learn more about unique topics that you otherwise would not have had the opportunity or perhaps even the desire to learn about. Yet through…
In decades past, a freelance writer had very limited opportunities to write for clients beyond those in the local area. In days before the Internet was commonly used and even before it had been invented, freelance writing assignments largely were handed to writers from print media like newspapers and magazines. Often, freelance writers chose to…