Author Archives: Jessie Ann Fitzgerald

Here at All Freelance Writing, we all abide to a strict no-getting-screwed policy. I like this policy. We also have an enjoy-your-freelance-writing-business policy, and I like this policy, too. I bring these policies up because I’m talking about doing freelance work when little to no money is involved. I’ll agree with the following rules Jenn has beat into our brains (lovingly) throughout this blog: a member of your target market should be able to pay your rates free work that will help your career should advance your exposure, expertise, and platform (if you must do it) and it shouldn’t be …

I’ve heard it on the TV commercials advertising depression medication, but I didn’t think I would hear myself saying it to my husband, pre-deployment, about my freelance writing business. I experienced / am experiencing a sudden loss of interest in the things I enjoy. Part of it is because of the stress of having a baby (it will change our whole lives—well, it already has) and it is mostly the traumatic sadness of my husband’s deployment. The point is that life changes, and sometimes you aren’t the glorious motivated person you once were. When your productivity is struggling because of …

Discussing time management may be a passion of mine, and a source of a profession, but it has meaning for every freelance writer. Freelance writers work in the truest sense of the word because while other workers, workers with employers, can blog and shop online and play Minesweeper, freelancer writers have to be hard at work writing articles / blog posts / books / copy, keeping track of their bookkeeping, managing their client files, building their marketing platforms to attract business, pitching prospective clients, and updating a business plan that works with the freelance flow. We only have a limited …

All business owners can suffer through disorganized files and lacking archives, but freelance writers seem to create more papers / files / electronic documents than some would imagine possible.  It’s the general nature of the work. Writers tend to keep and research a lot of things. A solid archival system of frequently backed up files is essential for any freelance writing business owner for the peace of mind and stress relief alone of knowing everything is safe, secure and where it needs to be. No two freelance writers present the same files. Each unique specialty and client base as well …