Every week I get emails from people asking me how they can get paid to write online. Perhaps the name of the site has something to do with that. 
After all, I do promise to offer advice on building a successful freelance writing career. And it may be that with 650+ posts on the site spanning five years, some people get lost and don’t know where to begin.
With that in mind, I plan to create an occasional post, aimed at collecting the site’s best advice on different topics (like the promotion one I did last year). The listing won’t be exhaustive, but it will cover some of the key issues which writers face. This first collection is aimed at new writers:
Creating An Online Presence
Self- Promotion
- How I Got Paid By Writing For Free
- How Have You Promoted Your Writing Today?
- Promotion Is Free – Article Marketing
- Self Promo for Freelance Writers – More Tips and Analysis Advice
Clips/Portfolio
- How To Build A Portfolio That Gets You The Job
- Three Quick Ways To Create Freelance Writing Clips
- How To Create A Writing Portfolio
Getting Work
Copyright
- Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip #7 – Copyrights and copy wrongs
- Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip #8 – Copyright: rent, don’t sell
Managing Your Writing Business
Getting Paid
- Freelance Writing Questions: Setting Rates
- When Last Did You Pay Yourself?
- Writing Pay – How Low Will You Go?
- Writer Earnings: The Woes and Joys of Currency Exchanges
Scams
Client Relationships
Inspiration
- Why I Love Working At Home
- Taking the Plunge: Becoming a Freelancer
- The Evolution Of A Freelancer
- Can Anyone Be A Freelance Writer?
Still want advice on an issue not listed here? Just ask or check out the sitemap. And if you’re a regular reader of the blog, feel free to chip in with any of the posts here you think might help new writers.
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This is a really great idea, Sharon.
It’s simple, but I love the fact that the posts are all grouped under individual headings.
I remember when I was first starting out I used to read as much as I could and often found something a few months later that would have been of use earlier if I’d slowed down and hadn’t skimmed over it.
Having a post like this ensures that unless you’re really in a rush, you’re unlikely to skim over anything that could be valuable to you as a new freelance writer.
Thanks, Dan. I hope that doing this occasionally will make it easier for people to find what they need. Once I’ve done a few, I’ll include a list of these start pages somewhere in the sidebar.
Great list! This will definitely help me (and all freelance writers) along my writing journey.
The main thing I’m struggling with (for now) is building my online portfolio, so I’ll pay extra attention to those sections.
And let me know if there’s anything you want to know that’s not covered there, Christina. I may be able to write about it in another post.