The Born Freelancer on the Value of Having a ‘Plan B’
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. Definitions: “A Plan” or “Plan A” – The ideal career/lifestyle. For most of us it’s creative freelancing. “B Plan” or “Plan B” – A […]
Better now than it used to be: freelancing in Canada
by Tannara Yelland Freelancing full-time is a kind of uncertain work advisable for only serious risk-takers. Your pay is never assured. You’re at the mercy of editors who may have more pressing concerns than responding to pitches. Once you have something accepted and printed, pay can take weeks or months to get to you. […]
The Born Freelancer on Interning for Free
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. Whenever I read stories about corporate media insisting they have no money to pay their hard working interns (such as Derek Finkle’s […]
Angela West: a Q&A with the founder of Canadian Freelance Writing Jobs
by Rachel Sanders Every day, Angela West does a generous thing for young Canadian writers. She gets up, has her coffee, and spends 15 or 20 minutes gathering job listings from around the web and aggregating them on her own website, Canadian Freelance Writing Jobs. She’s also a freelance writer, who, over the past […]
The Born Freelancer on The Creative Journey
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. I’ve discovered a site which you might enjoy. It’s called I Write Like and purports to tell you whose style your writing most resembles. While I cannot […]
Pay Me Please helps freelancers get what they’re owed
There’s nothing quite as frustrating to a freelancer as having to chase a publisher down for unpaid invoices. Story Board has reported on late-paying Canadian publishers a couple of times over the past few months. In both cases, freelancers were angry enough to go public with their complaints. Last fall, a similarly frustrated freelance journalist started […]
Freelance Friday #2, Storified
[View the story “Value Your Work, Get It In Writing, and Get Paid” on Storify]
The Born Freelancer on Email Self-Marketing Part 2
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer shares personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments. In my last post I described my use of email to periodically market my freelancing services. I said that I was looking into further expanding its […]
The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #15 – Adrien Sala
In this regular feature, Story Board asks Canadian writers to share a few details about their work habits and their strategies for navigating the ups and downs of freelance life. 1. Where are you when most of your story ideas come to you? Usually in conversation with friends. I do a bunch of different stuff, freelancing is […]
Incubating ideas: Where do you get your ideas and how do you organize them?
by Lesley Evans Ogden The start of a new year is an interesting time. It’s a period of looking both forward and back. For me, the dawn of 2014 marked a phase of furious pitching, which cast my mind towards wondering how other freelancers come up with story ideas. Where do their ideas come from? […]
