Freelance Writer for Hire

Since the last blog post, I’ve fur­ther refined my long term plans and how to get there.  I am doing an old, out­dated ver­sion of Dan Miller’s 48 Days pro­gram, which really has helped me to focus this whole process instead of my usual route of sec­ond guess­ing myself every step of the way. I knew I really wanted to cut the crap, and get to what I wanted. I’m 35, after all. I don’t want to wait until retire­ment to start really liv­ing my goals and dreams.

Writ­ing has always been a part of my long term agenda, just the same as home­steading has.  Unlike being self-sufficient and grow­ing my own food, writ­ing is some­thing I can do imme­di­ately. I’ve got my own per­sonal writ­ing to do, but in the mean­time, why not try my hand at free­lanc­ing? Part of the rea­son I don’t write for plea­sure is I’m not in the habit of it. The more I work on writ­ing, the bet­ter I become, just like any­thing else.  If I am not cur­rently employed on a project, I’ll be in the habit of writ­ing any­way, so odds are, I’ll write.

I’ve had really phe­nom­e­nal results so far. Out of the first 10 jobs I applied for, I got three gigs. I’ve cov­ered a car note so far in earn­ings!  In this amount of time, I had expected maybe $25–50, so I’ve made ten times the amount I pro­jected for the first month. I’m cur­rently booked for one long-term, up to 15 hours a week job.

I have had the oppor­tu­nity to bid on some amaz­ing jobs, too.  Even though I know my odds right now are pretty slim for get­ting some of those awe­some jobs, I still keep apply­ing. I know that after I’ve got more 5 star feed­back, I’ll be more than a resume with a blank port­fo­lio, and more jobs will come in. I’ll be at the top of the com­pe­ti­tion for these neat, cre­ative writ­ing gigs soon enough.

But still — while I’m wait­ing for this busi­ness to grow to a full time job, I am absolutely thrilled because I’m get­ting paid to do some­thing I love.  I’ve never had this feel­ing before. I won­der why it’s taken me this long.