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How To Make Freelance Writing A Full-time Career

Certain items in your writing toolbox are the basics

Writing Resolution

Ok, now you are about to have a bit of a break for the holidays, and it is time to think about your resolutions for finishing the year and starting next year.

Certain items in your writing toolbox are the basics you need to have to build on so you can communicate to your reader and be believable. What to keep, what to subtract, and what to add.

The first thing you want to do is write out a contract for yourself about your desire to begin writing or continue writing.

Write out a contract on specialty paper — not scrap paper. Why a contract? Because it acknowledges the difficult times to come, and it puts your intentions in concrete terms. Every time you want to stray, quit and encounter a difficulty, it’s easy to refocus by pulling out that contract and recommitting yourself. I’d suggest handwriting it out on specialty paper and framing it to put someplace where you can view it every day.

It takes this type of intense focus to achieve your dreams. Call it, “My Creative Writing Commitment Contract.”

You can do it; you talked about it for years, so why not make this the year you get started? Think about your resolutions for starting and finishing.

How to Make Freelance Writing a Full-time Career

Assess Your Desire: No-one can give you the desire. You either have it or not.

Create A Niche: It is easier to sell yourself as a specialist than a generalist.

Create Revenue Streams: Where might you make money with your writing? Here are a few ideas: speaking engagements, Book Sales, Seminar Presentations, Website Sales. Start thinking concretely now about how much you want to make as a freelance writer — and where and how that income will come to you.

Becoming A Creative Writer

Creative writing is any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction that goes outside the bounds of typical professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works that fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems. Writing for the screen and stage, screenwriting and playwriting, respectively, typically have their programs of study but fit under the creative writing category.

Forms of creative writing * Autobiography/Memoir * Collaborative writing * Creative non-fiction (Personal & Journalistic Essays) * Epic * Flash fiction * Novel * Novella * Playwriting/Dramatic writing * Poetry * Screenwriting * Short story * Songwriting * Bibliography * Stream of consciousness (narrative mode) * Asemic writing * Book report * Creativity * Expository writing * Fiction writing

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