Breaking Into Freelance Writing
Let’s be honest. Freelancing isn’t easy, especially when you’re a writer. Success, which comes as a slow ramp-up from usually humble beginnings, is defined only by the lengths of feasts between famines. Sometimes, work comes in faster than you can handle it. Other times, work comes in a trickle, if at all. To even get to this point, though, you need to jump the first big hurdle and land a client.
For some writers, finding a client seems like an impossible task. You might not know where to look or how to solicit business. For others, finding a client isn’t hard, but landing a job is. It’s the classical catch-22: you need a portfolio to get work, but you need to get work to have a portfolio.
Fortunately, the internet makes this catch-22 irrelevant. If you want to jump right into print-writing, for magazines or newspapers, you almost always need a portfolio of previously published work. For online content creation, you can write your own ticket by showcasing your work on free content repositories. (These repositories have the added benefit of “writer communities,” which we’ll discuss later.)
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