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When you first start out as a freelance writer the gap between you and the top writers who earn $5,000 to $10,000 per article, according to the length of the article, can seem enormous.
You close that gap by climbing the ladder of credits, rung by rung.
Every freelance writer starts out with a single sale
Every freelance writer starts out the same way: with one sale. Usually the sale is tiny, $200 for an article, or $350 for creating a brochure for a business, or $1500 as an advance for a novel.
That tiny sale means that you’re PUBLISHED. You’re someone who writes for money. You now have a publication credit, and you can leverage that credit in many ways - editors trust someone that someone else has recognized as a writer. Your queries and proposals (”pitches”) will be read with much greater attention.
Paying your dues: climbing the ladder of credits by LEARNING
“Paying your dues” means building your knowledge, experience, and expertise. Bluntly, it means that as you’re worth more, you get paid more. (You have to ask for the higher pay, however - if you never learn to estimate your own worth you can be paid tiny sums forever, or until you learn.)
You start off writing for a local newspaper or regional magazine, you write for similar magazines, and continue to work your way up the ladder, until you’re writing for publications which pay $1 and $3 a word. If you’re a copywriter, you now get paid $10,000 and more for a direct mail package. If you’re a novelist, you’re now paid six-figure advances.
Are you climbing the ladder of credits? Are you learning? If you are, congratulations, see you at the top. 
Give yourself a boost a few rungs up the ladder - check out my new range of Special Reports for writers. I’ll be adding a new report on magazine writing later this week.
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