Freelance Writing

Q how do I go about becoming a Freelance Writer?

A good place to start if you are serious about getting paid to write, is to put together a Portfolio of your writing work, either published or ready to go, and keep it handy.

If you have not been published before online, it is a good idea to join up with Helium and/or Associated Content, and/or Constant Content so that you can publish some articles and get feedback on your writing style. Both will pay you in different ways, but there is a lot of money to be made on the Helium Marketplace and Competitions, for a good writer.

Helium is very useful in other ways too as the community is supportive, and it runs a free mentor programme which well help you to develop your writing style.

Another place worth joining up with, is Digital Journal. You can be a community journalist on there, and earn money at the same time. Writing on these places will enable you to present your own published work to a prospective Freelance Client.

Once you have collected your portfolio together, you can think about applying for Freelance jobs on any number of free sites. You have to provide examples of your writing, and apply for the job by bidding on it.

There is a huge list of Freelance Writing resources here

Also remember to watch out for scams, you should never pay for work. If a job asks you to pay up front it is probably a scam.

Happy Birthday Helium

HELIUM is 1 Year Old this week!

If you join Helium you can get paid for writing.

At first when I joined it, I thought the the payment was low, but now I have realised that it is accumulative. The more articles you write, the more you get paid, and they will continue to pay out for a long time if they are interesting and useful articles.

I realised this because I only wrote a few articles and I had a couple of months away but they had made more money even though I had not posted any new articles in a while.

Helium is also very addictive. It can help you improve your writing skills and is a good way to start out as a freelance writer. I also got some other work as a result of it, so it is worth doing!

If you want an invite, contact me with your email address.

Or just enjoy the articles.

Write and Earn a Living: Creating E-books

Here is a great article about how to make money from creating ebooks.

from this great blog

Write and earn a living

Write and Earn a Living: Creating E-books

Write Articles and get paid

Constant Content will pay you for writing articles.

They will accept authors to write on almost any subject you can imagine, and sell the content to website owners.

You can write product reviews, tutorials, creative writing, poetry, short stories, and get paid for it!

It is worth signing up with them and sending your work. They will pay out to most countries that support PayPal or by cheque. Check them out by clicking here.