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Do you like the idea of working from home and owning your own business... but youre just not sure where to start? Are you thinking about becoming a freelance writer or editor, and wondering if that type of work is right for YOU? Have you done a little research into freelancing and found it altogether too overwhelming... so that you have more questions now than you initially started out with? This book can help! It will provide you with all of the basics of freelancing, from starting your business to setting your rates to managing clients and more. When author Sagan Morrow decided to quit her 9-5 job and launch her full-time freelancing business, she wished that there was just ONE go-to resource which would have all the answers to her questions about freelancing. And now, based on her own experiences, shes written the book she wished she had when she was starting out as a freelancer. In this comprehensive resource, youll get... - Practical tips to help you with your new business and your new lifestyle. - Personal anecdotes for what works (and what doesnt) as a home-based small business owner. - Ideas for networking, marketing your business, and how to thrive with your home office. - Templates you can start using right away for your freelancing business (including an editing checklist, a business plan template, a sample invoice and more!). - Answers to some important questions you might not have considered about being a freelancer. - A step-by-step guide for finding clients, managing slow and busy times, and how to succeed as a new business owner. Sagan Morrow is a freelance writer / editor and a professional lifestyle blogger based in Canada. Her knowledge of business has been gleaned from more than seven years of experience as a freelancer.
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2015 Sagan Morrow
ISBN: 978-1-68222-659-9 Print
ISBN: 978-1-68222-660-5 eBook
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: HOW I GOT STARTED AS A FREELANCE WRITER & EDITOR
Starting at the Very Beginning
My story is, I think, a pretty typical one. Ever since I could hold a penbefore I even knew how to print lettersI would scribble on paper and pretend to write. Once I learned my letters, I started writing stories. I lost track of the amount of stories I wrote. Most of them were fantasy novels with thousands upon thousands of words, accompanied by maps illustrating the imaginary lands that I created and a dictionary of the words that I designed for my new languages.
Between the ages of eight and 18, I probably wrote somewhere in the range of 20+ novels.
It was around my late teens that I began to shift my focus from fiction to nonfiction. I started to become more interested in the world around me than the worlds that I created. I also became very interested in healthy living (specifically, nutrition and fitness). At this point I was doing a fair amount of reading online, and one blog that I loved was written by a health writer, Leslie Goldman. It had never occurred to me before that someone could be a health writer, but since I was so fascinated by health and I still loved to write, it seemed to be the perfect career option for me. I emailed Leslie inquiring how she got started, and she graciously agreed to a phone call Q & A.
Leslie was the person who advised me to start my own health blog. She explained that if I started out by blogging, it would give me practice as a reader, enable me to figure out if writing about health was really what I wanted to do, and also provide me with some writing samples to build up my portfolio. And so my first blog, Living Healthy in the Real World, was born.
I started out on Blogger, moved to Wordpress.com , and finally purchased my own domain name ( www.livingintherealworld.net , which I switched to SaganMorrow.com in February 2015), using Wordpress.org as my platform.
Over the years, I watched as my blog grew and grew. After my first year of blogging, I began to get requests from companies to do product reviews in exchange for free books, food, and even running shoes!
And in October 2009less than two years since I had started my blogPOM Wonderful flew me down to California with 14 other bloggers on their first-ever Blogger Harvest Tour to tour the orchards on foot and by mini plane and to be wined and dined. I was the only Canadian blogger who had received the invitation, and it was the first time that it really hit home that I could make something of myself with this writing business.
Exploring My Passions and Interests
During this whole time, I was attending university. I had grown up with the understanding that university was just what you did. My parents werent concerned with what degree I got or with whether I would go on to graduate school; they just wanted me to get a degree in something to help me get farther in life. Since I liked learning, that made sense to me, and I happily went to university right after high school.
I started university assuming Id get my degree in Psychology (I had always enjoyed my introductory psychology class in high school), but my professor was a bore in first-year university and besides, I found out that I would have to take a statistics course if I got a degree in Psychology. Frankly, I was tired of math (and clearly I didnt want to get into Psychology that badly), so I decided to get my degree in English instead, since I loved writing.
And then, after only barely starting to take some English courses, I discovered that our university had a Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications department.
I had never heard of such a department before but it sounded pretty fantastic to me. The subject material included everything from analyzing advertisements to interpreting fairy tales to talking about our understanding of gender as a society to learning about communication theories and more. It was basically an entire degree in critical thinking, and it was absolutely perfect for me.
While I was in university, around the time that I decided to switch to the Rhetoric department, I grew interested in the student newspaperand thanks to my health blog, I soon became the newspapers health columnist. I wrote a weekly column on health and wellness, recipes and nutrition, fun and easy fitness routines; the works. I even applied for a position as the Copy and Style Editor at the newspaper, but I didnt get it (probably because of my complete lack of qualifications at the time!).
Even though I didnt get the Copy and Style Editor position, the managing editor at the newspaper (who happened to be best friends with my sister) offered me another position that to this day Im sure she invented on the spot: to proofread the entire newspaper before it went to print. It wasnt a paid position, and it had never been available as a volunteer position before, but I jumped in happily. Tuesday evenings became one of my favourite parts of the week, and I felt such a thrill every time I caught a typo, formatting error, or punctuation mistake which had been missed by the writer, section editor, and managing editor. I knew then that editing was for me.
In my last year of university, I also started another blog: Living Rhetorically in the Real World. I began writing about the things I was learning about in university and about communications in general. I was starting to get interested in writing about other things besides just health.
I completed my degree in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications in 2010, writing my final exam the same week that I moved into my newly-purchased condo. I was a new homeowner, I had a degree under my belt, and I was ready to get out into the real world and start my career.
Except that I didnt know what my career would be. I was stuck! What could a person do with a degree in Rhetoric, anyway?
My First Foray into Freelancing
I got lucky. If Im honest, it was luck that played a major role in helping me along my way to becoming a freelance writer and editor. I knew that I wanted to edit, but I also knew that to get hired with a big publishing company, 99.9% of editors required a degree in Publishing. I didnt want to go that routemuch as I loved learning, I was tired of the education system and wanted to finally have a real job. So I sent my resume off to dozens of local publishing companies and advertising agencies and even a public relations company in the hope that someone would bite.
Meanwhile, a family friend, who was the past editor of our citys newspaper and who heard that I wanted to break into the writing and editing industry, passed my name onto a creative agency when they offered her a freelance gig that she was unable to do herself. That simple act of passing my name on led to a wonderful long-term relationship between me and the creative agency. Ever since that initial project, the company offered me more work a couple times each year for the next four or five years. They werent always very big projects, but they were something!
Almost at the exact same time as I first met with the creative agency, the owner of a local public relations company (which I had sent my resume off to) reached out to me as well. As it happened, he had just signed a contract with a local health centre. Based on my background in health writing and my passion for health and wellness, he decided to take a chance on meeven though I had no knowledge of writing press releases or connecting with the media.
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