Get all the writing gigs you want

The latest issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine is online. This week’s article is “Advertising Yourself: Get All The Writing Gigs You Want”.

Here’s an excerpt:

Want to be paid what you’re worth as a writer? If you do, you need to learn the gentle art of advertising yourself: that is, promoting yourself and your writing skills.

Many writers feel that advertising and self-promotion is a crass activity. You’ll find these same writers routinely complaining about “low pay for writers”. What these writers never realize is that other writers – the crass, self-promoting ones – are getting paid sums they’d salivate over, if only they knew.

Advertising Yourself As A Freelance Writer Makes Sense

What would you think of a restaurant which had no signs out front, no menu displayed, and which never advertised in any newspaper? Since the restaurant never bothered to advertise, it would never get any diners.

A horrifying number of freelance writers are just like that restaurant. They never bother to tell anyone that they write, and what they write. To get writing gigs, they go chasing after gigs that thousands of other writers chase after. These jobs may not be suitable for them at all, but since the writing gigs are advertised, they must be desirable.

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