Comments on: What is Your LEAST Favorite Part of Being a Freelance Writer?

By: WordCount recap - weekly news from the digital media biz « WordCount - Freelancing in the digital age

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:58:26 +0000

[...] What’s your least favorite part of being a freelance writer? – Even if you love working for yourself, there’s bound to be one or two things about it you don’t care for or aren’t good at. For Jennifer Mattern, author of the All Freelance Writing blog, it’s bookkeeping. What’s your least favorite part of freelancing? [...]

By: Links: 2008-11-21 | Meryl.net

Links: 2008-11-21 | Meryl.net — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:46:03 +0000

[...] What’s Your Least Favorite Part of Freelance Writing? Mine: Phone interviews. [...]

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:07:15 +0000

When someone prefers a phone interview to an email interview. Not lazy — but making phone calls through a relay service takes too much out of the equation and I don’t feel in charge of the interview.

By: Sue LaPointe

Sue LaPointe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:16:17 +0000

By far, the accounting end of things. Even with a bookkeeper/CPA… still hate it!

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:53:13 +0000

The ups and downs in income… I love those periods when I have a big project that pays monthly or some such.

Savings turns out to be my answer to this.

Anne Wayman, now blogging at http://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com

By: LaToya Irby

LaToya Irby — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:35:08 +0000

Accounting is pretty hard to keep up with, especially when you have multiple income streams to keep up with.

I have to agree with LS that marketing is my least favorite part. Responding to job ads isn’t so bad, but figuring out how to approach “cold” and “warm” prospects isn’t so easy. The constant putting yourself out there is a little taxing and time-consuming. When it pays off, though, you’ll get no complaints from me.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:16:27 +0000

For me it’s the severe highs and lows. I’ll go from being super busy or on a project high to dribbles of work. I try to take advantage of both and express gratitude for it, but it can be tough.

By: LS

LS — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:21:03 +0000

Marketing, marketing, marketing. I can’t stand it. To be successful it’s necessary to some degree, but I find the whole process distasteful.

By: Claire McCarthy

Claire McCarthy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:15:13 +0000

For me it’s the feeling of being in endless ‘interview’ mode – the constant necessity to get that new client. I’m good at selling myself in words, but a bit reluctant when it’s face to face!

That’s why I love online networking :o)

By: Isaac

Isaac — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:29:06 +0000

Fast-approaching deadlines. Actually, don’t all deadlines approach too quickly?