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What does it mean to you to be a successful freelance writer? I receive quite a few emails every day stating that I am successful because of my freelance writing income. While income is definitely one way to measure success, it is not the only thing that you should consider. In fact, a high freelance writing income is nice, but if you do not enjoy other parts of your career you are going to burn out sooner rather than later.
In my eyes, a successful freelance writer is one who enjoys their job while also earning enough money to support themselves; you cannot have one without the other. In other words you do not want to love your job but earn no money. Or earn tons of money but despise getting up in the morning because you know what the day will bring.
If you can reach both happiness and financial freedom within your freelance writing career, you will begin to see yourself as a success soon enough. This does not always happen in a hurry, but those who work hard and are dedicated to their craft will reach this goal in time. I always knew that I would be happy working as a freelance writer. For this reason, I simply needed to work out the income side of things. By my third month, I had reached $2,200 in earnings and from that point on I felt good about my career and the direction it was heading.
Do you have a different feeling on what makes for a successful freelance writer?Â
What is the best freelance writing advice that you have ever received? This is a question that I have thought about a lot lately due to many people asking me for general advice. You would think it would be easy to give basic freelance writing advice, but this is far from the case.
I usually answer this question the same way: work hard day in and day out and good things will come of your career. Sure, this is vague and may not work for everybody, but in most cases it is good advice to follow. Even if you have no experience and are yet to make any progress as a freelance writer, you can begin to achieve success if you are simply willing to work hard everyday of the work. In my opinion, hard work will pay huge dividends in the long run.
Of course, this type of advice does not even scratch the surface. Yes, hard work will help you to build a successful freelance writing career, but what does this mean, exactly? In other words, what does it mean to work hard? Obviously, getting into all of these finer details is much more than a bit of basic advice. The way that you work is up to you. What one person considers working hard another may consider nothing more than a half day’s work.
The bottom line is simple: no matter what freelance writing advice you receive, you need to do your “own thing†with it. Advice from a successful freelance writer is a good start, but only if you take it and work it into your career.Â
