{"id":8105,"date":"2020-06-05T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2020-06-05T07:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:15:49","slug":"call-for-pitches-how-i-landed-a-freelance-writing-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/call-for-pitches-how-i-landed-a-freelance-writing-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Pitches: How I Landed a Freelance Writing Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am currently seeking pitches for &#8220;case study&#8221; articles about how writers landed freelance writing jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want pitches covering two general categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How you got published in a magazine, blog, or website. Ideally, you&#8217;ll be able to include the original pitch sent, payment amounts, and a link to the published article.<\/li><li>How you landed a recurring writing gig for a small business \/ private client. This could be a regular content-marketing gig, a regular blogging gig for a small business, copywriting work for a small business, or something similar. Discussion of your strategy, in terms of landing this gig, is critical to the article.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am particularly seeking case studies from writers of diverse backgrounds, especially Black writers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not able to afford very much for payment; it generally starts at $50, but goes as high as $100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These articles should be a combination of storytelling and teaching, so that people can learn by example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To submit a pitch, please send an email to submissions@freedomwithwriting.com with CASE STUDY in the subject line. Please include a short bio in your pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These case studies will be published in FreedomWithWriting.com as well as WritingLaunch.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently seeking pitches for &#8220;case study&#8221; articles about how writers landed freelance writing jobs. I want pitches covering two general categories: How you got published in a magazine, blog, or website. Ideally, you&#8217;ll be able to include the original pitch sent, payment amounts, and a link to the published article. How you landed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}