As a freelance writer or journalist, the people you rely on to do your job will inevitably let you down. Be ready for it and know how to deal with it.
I don't know what to tell you. I've just been down this past week. What the heck is wrong with me? I have zero motivation to do anything. Usually, I can't wait to get home, especially on the weekends, and just spend all of Friday night and Saturday day writing or working on my Web site (mind some minor adjustments in that regard, by the way), but not this week. Instead, I blew off my writing partner -- I had a legitimate reason of course -- and stayed in to finish Mallrats. Not the best movie in the world, though it has its charms. It's the movie you were thinking of at the end of every conversation where you said, "This needs to be in a movie!"
Life as a freelance writer is easily summed up in one word: temporary. One day a publication may need you...
As a freelance writer, you'll probably run into a lot of fly-by-night publications that are looking for writers to supply them with content.
I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600 when I thought I was gosu for being able to "dodge" enemy lasers on Berserk by letting the lasers pass through the pixels that separated my avatar's head from his body.
I don’t want to speak out of turn here since I’m not a freelance writer by trade (anymore), nor do...
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