Comments on: The Action Part of Your Freelance Writing Action Plan https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html a freelance writing resource. Thu, 30 Jun 2016 18:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lori Widmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html#comment-14591 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:14:16 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html/#comment-14591 Thanks, Devon.

That sounds like a great approach. It has to build upon itself, doesn't it? Otherwise, it's merely words on paper.

]]> By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html#comment-14590 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 18:37:35 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html/#comment-14590 So sorry for your loss.

I like to break down goals into at least three action steps, each one building on the other one.

2016 is a reassessment and reframing of what I want and how I want to get there — some of it coming a little sooner than I wished!

But I think it all will be good.

I did very little freelance nonfiction work last year — it focused mostly on fiction and scripts. I'm going to slowly add back in more freelance projects this year, but be pickier about them.

]]> By: Lori Widmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html#comment-14579 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:48:45 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html/#comment-14579 Thanks, Paula. We had a few weeks to prepare for the inevitable, but that isn't much comfort for his wife and kids. Mom is doing okay — better than expected.

I love your system, Paula! Hey, if lists work, go for it! The idea is to get moving forward. Inertia, as you know, kills it for many freelancers.

]]> By: Paula Hendrickson https://wordsonpageblog.com/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html#comment-14578 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:01:57 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2015/12/the-action-part-of-your-freelance.html/#comment-14578 I'm so sorry to hear about your uncle. That would be rough for your mom at any time of year, but around the holidays is worse. Nothing more depressing than the sight of a poinsettia at at funeral or memorial service. I hope she's doing okay.

As for goals…I've never been a big goal setter. List maker, yes. Goal setter, no. But I usually have a general idea of something I'd like to try each year. Several years ago I wanted to break into writing about knitting and was a contracted blogger for a yarn company (which dumped us all when it merged with another company with a celebrity knitter/blogger on the books), and wrote a piece for a trade magazine for yarn store owners. Another year I wanted to expand to food writing, and started contributing to what turned out to be the Slow Payer, but I also added a custom content client and have done several things for them, but nothing in about a year. This year it was to get into the TCA; I've been a member for about a month now, and the press kits are rolling in.

After speaking with my cousin about how she spun her graphic design skills into a burgeoning Etsy business, I'm thinking about putting a few months in developing more knit and crochet patterns and start selling downloadable patterns online. My writing would dovetail with that fairly well.

But I think I really need to find some more lucrative copywriting or whitepaper opportunities instead of focusing so much time on articles. Article pay rates are still stuck in the 90s — and dropping, at some publications.

I hope everyone has a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2016. Emphasis on the healthy part for you mom and dad, Lori.

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