Freelance bidding sites promise writers empowerment and the ability to start a writing career, but is that really what they offer? It seems as though these sites are always at the center of controversy in the freelance writing world. On the one hand, they take a bit of the risk out of launching a new […]

Should you use a pseudonym? This question comes up in writers groups all the time: “I’m getting ready to write my first novel…should I use a pen name?” The short answer is “you can if you want to.” But, as you can probably guess, it’s not always as easy as that. What is a Pseudonym?

Most freelance writers don’t have a rate card. In fact, I didn’t have one for the first several years that I was writing. And the reason for that is because trying to create a rate card for freelance writing can be complicated and hard to manage: There’s a reason, after all, why most freelance writers

In one of the many writing groups I am in, someone was complaining about the lack of antiracist resources for freelance writers. Now, to be honest, I wasn’t surprised to hear that there weren’t many resources available. The vast majority of writers aren’t racist. And in my mind, it clicked like this: the antiracist resources