I don’t do this too often, but every now and then I offer up a list of places to search for freelance writing jobs. Today, I’m expanding that to include freelance blogging jobs. I hope that now that you know where I look, you won’t abandon us here!
Behold:
There are several keys to success in freelance writing. You must be good at English grammar and spelling. It won't hurt if you type accurately and quickly. Two more keys are having an imagination and knowing how to build and keep contacts. Building your network of contacts both to offer your writings, and to gain writing contracts from is a major key for any successful writer. This is especially true if they are freelance and not working on contract or against a large advance.
Fantasyworld Kids love to build their own worlds. They do it without prompting as they "play pretend" with toys and with one another, but some excel and go on to greatness. Everyone takes joy in a good story, but one that is set in a dynamic, believable world really stands out.
Google Launches Knol for the Public to Share What They Know
Google's Knol was released on Wednesday, July 23 in hopes of revolutionizing the way web content is shared. Will it hurt or help websites such as Associated Content and Wikipedia, or become an entity unto itself?
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Making money online is a lot of different people's dreams, and for a lot of different reasons. However, figuring out how to do that profitably isn't easy to do, but it can be done. Making $1000 a month isn't hard, and as time goes on you can grow that into an even bigger amount.
Do you dream of earning your living writing for the internet, but so far all you have earned is $3.62 from Google Adsense through your blog? Would you like to turn that $3.62 into $3,620 in only four weeks? Well guess what?
The graffiti archaeology project lets you see the history of the evolving graffiti on specific walls over years and years... just check it out, it's cool.
I have about twenty bloggers working for me at any given time. Many new bloggers are often not familiar with the details of blogging software (e.g. the screwy video embed issue with WP) or they don't know much about the art of blogging (other than writing about the blog's topic).
Over time I've developed a list of ten articles that I send to all my new bloggers as part of their initiation. Today I've decided to make one version of that list public in the hopes that new bloggers everywhere can benefit, and maybe we can turn the comment section into a "you forgot this one" list.
Similarly, well-written content must clearly guide its readers.
Plus, it should remain relevant to the goals of the reader, by sticking to the promises you made to get them to read in the first place.
The key to avoiding the IKEA trap is to expose salient points to the reader in a clean and efficient manner. Don’t make the reader digest more than a few sentences before the section objectives become clearly evident.
Make sure that EVERYTHING you discuss is relevant and related to the topic of the paper or post.
