Here’s an excerpt from this week’s Editorial in Fab Freelance Writing Ezine:
This week let’s talk about the vexed topic (in some writers’ circles) about writing for free.
I write for “free”. My blogs are free, this ezine is free – I’m giving it away, so I must be either a lunatic, or putting a good construction on it, be extremely altruistic.
In fact, neither of those applies.
My Cunning Plan – And Yours, Too
I’m not altruistic when it comes to writing. In fact, I believe that all writers should be paid well.However, I do write for self-promotion, because it’s vital to being paid well. When you’re well known as a writer, your clients expect to pay you more. And because you don’t stint on your writing, they also know what to expect when they hire you – they’ve seen your work. So they know you.
Also, in today’s crowded and noisy writing marketplace, in which 100,000 books are published in English each year, and where Web pages proliferate into the billions, writing for self-promotion is writing for survival. If you’re not online, if you don’t have a Web site or blog, you’re cutting your own throat as a writer.
So – that’s my “cunning” plan. Write “for free” and not only survive but also thrive as a writer.
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