Comments on: https://wordsonpageblog.com/2026/09/9035.html a freelance writing resource. Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:29:23 +0000 hourly 1 By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2026/09/9035.html#comment-34487 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:29:23 +0000 https://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=9035#comment-34487 In reply to Randy B Hecht.

This exactly, Randy. If you show up always with your hand out, you will be ignored. If you share with your writing friends — and they are friends, not competition — you stand a better chance of someone remembering your background and sending something along to you in case it fits.

This is an ages-old problem. I’ve had people asking me endlessly for work as far back as 2003 when I first started freelancing. I’d love to say I see less of it these days, but you well know that the freelance beggar is alive and in our emails and social media feeds just as often now as then.

]]> By: Randy B Hecht https://wordsonpageblog.com/2026/09/9035.html#comment-34486 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:24:43 +0000 https://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=9035#comment-34486 I’ll add this: Be the network member you want others to be. If you want people to share leads with you, share leads with them. I’ve benefited more than occasionally from a referral, recommendation, or just a “Hey, did you see this?” email with a link to a job posting that matched my background especially well. But that’s a two-way street. One of the regular features of my own marketing efforts is to share referrals, recommendations, and leads with writers I know and respect. We can all use support sometimes, but if you haven’t created a ecosystem of mutual support, you’re just asking to be able to count on people without showing that they can count on you, too.

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