Random musings on the daily ups and downs of life as a freelance journalist and editor
I’m a fulltime freelance journalist and editor. It’s an add-on to the daily paid-for count!
Like many freelances stuck at home all day, my job has a lot of frustrations. Blogging lets me unload some of them and also show the reality of freelancing. My mum thinks I’m not really working if I don’t go to an office. But trust me, I don’t have time to watch daytime tv (even if I wanted to). It’s actually very hard, like running any small business is.
I’m coming up for two years now. I had an earlier blog on MySpace, which ran for nearly a year (I started that when I first started freelancing) but it was the wrong place for the blog so I moved it.
I don’t blog every day. I try to blog a minimum 3 times a week and I probably get around 50 visitors a day, including those reading it on a feed.
No. I toyed with putting ads on, but decided not to. I may be a media whore, but I’m not an ad whore.
Anyone interested in journalism, words, running a business, freelancing and working from home. I also have a disability, which I occasionally blog about, because the disability affected a lot of the decisions I made about working, and still can affect my day-to-day working life.
I usually spend about 30 minutes on a post. I generally have a strong idea as to what I’ll write about – it could be something happening in the media, something that happened during my working day I need to let off steam about or a more general stream of thought on a work-related issue that I think needs debating.
Because I’m witty, articulate and (hopefully) draw a good picture of the freelance life. Plus, because I’m a wordsmith, my blog is refreshingly free of spelling errors and txtspk.
Basically, just keep writing. Be honest and true to yourself so your voice comes through and do a proofread so it’s legible. Blogs full of typos are a real turn-off for many readers.
This blog can be visited at http://diaryofawordsmith.blogspot.com/
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