Thursday started working as a freelance writer during her undergraduate studies at the University of Tulsa (B.A, Communications). She's continued writing while starting an MA at the University of Baltimore, trying to make it through graduate school without picking up any more student loans.
Thursday started blogging as a way to talk about the business side of freelancing — when she started writing for a living, she never thought she'd need to worry about invoices and taxes as much as query letters and word counts.
Thursday Bram's blog is ThursdayBram.com.
No matter what type of writing your freelance business relies on, there will be a time when you struggle to find the right words. It’s important to have the resources that will keep you on track through those tough times.
Your average news writer can’t just shift gears into covering green stories and neither can your average business writer. That means this niche is perfect for exploitation by any freelance writer willing to put forth the effort.
I’ve heard of companies looking for permalancers here and there, and I’ve always been a bit intrigued. A permanent freelancing gig? Guaranteed work I don’t have to go chasing down? What’s not to like?
Youthfulness is not generally seen as an asset to a freelance writer. Clients tend to assume you’ll be less professional and less knowledgeable. The same goes for writers with only a clip or two under their belts.
The general idea is that an in-person interview is more adaptive: you can change the questions and don’t have to do multiple follow ups if an interview subject’s answer sparks a new idea. Furthermore, a good writer seems to be able to pull answers out of a subject when talking to them that the writer might not get in an email […]
Blogs. Flickr. Half a dozen other websites that are free to join, allow you to post your writing (and photographs and other work) and links back to your website. Are they worth it for those of us who make a living off our creativity? […]
We may be talking about articles you’ve submitted to magazines, poems, novels or even screenplays. But no matter the form your writing has taken, it’s worth considering what will happen to it in the future […]
Just like most writers, I often struggle to put a price on my words. I try to set prices that I feel are fair and that can keep me in the style I’ve become accustomed to — that is to say, able to eat. So, when a freelance client asks me for a discount, I have […]
One of the drawbacks of working at home is that, inevitably, you don’t have as many opportunities to interact with people. You run a risk that you’ll wind up talking to the cats or the walls, and, well, that’s not good for business.
But that’s where the idea of co-working comes in. Basically, it’s the idea […]
I’ve been putting together an article celebrating an anniversary for a now defunct comic strip — don’t worry, you’ve heard of it. But I made the mistake of assuming that the business people still managing that particular comic strip would like, you know, a little publicity and would be willing to let me use a […]
