If you are new to freelance writing and don't have any thing published already in print or online, don't worry. You will just need to get started writing. I was afraid of what people would think of my writing, but I wasn't going to let fear stop me. You shouldn't either!
"Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it." by Lt. John B. Putnam Jr.
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." by Sven Goran Eriksson
The main thing is to start writing, it is easiest to write about that which you have some knowledge. Start with what you know. Then begin writing 400 word articles. Then find one of the online freelance sites I have mentioned in my previous post and get those articles published.
Because you will never know if you don't even try.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Marie M. Daniels Earns New Writing Badge
What is the Hot 500 Badge at Associated Content? Why and how did Marie M. Daniels get this award?
from Associated Content "Hot 500 are the Associated Content Contributors with the largest audience, and most engaged readers, viewers and listeners. These badges are updated once per month, and grace the profiles of the top 500 active Contributors based on the previous month's page views."
I won the Hot 500 Badge at Associated Content!
Friday, February 12, 2010
How to Deal with Negative Comments
As a freelance writer some times you will have to deal with negative comments. Negative comments may come from your readers an editor or friends and family. You need to learn how to deal with these negative comments or your freelance writing will suffer or fail.
Reader Comments:
Comments on your freelance articles can seem to be harsher than they were meant. Writing online makes it hard to convey emotions and your commenter may have left you a little joke.
Editor Comments:
Negative comments and rejections made by an editor may have been intended to be constructive criticism. Sometimes constructive criticism is difficult to take and so is rejection for that matter. Most editors know what they are talking about, so try not to take it too personally.
Peer Comments:
In some writing circles other unscrupulous freelance writers will attempt to gang up on new writers so they will become discouraged and leave. These old timers don’t want any new freelancers to steal a piece of their pie.
You can ignore their comments or address them and post a reply in your comments. If you have negative comments that can be removed from your work by all means remove them. If you choose to combat those negative comments be positive and be the bigger person. If you fight fire with fire you will just add fuel to their fire and they could stalk you and may eventually ruin your online presence.
If one writing site is terribly bad and you cannot escape the negative comments you will need to go elsewhere. Just don’t let those trolls and naysayers stop you from writing.
How to Deal:
Negative comments can come from anywhere including a parent, your best friend or spouse and they can end a writing career before it has even begun. You can’t stop people from voicing their opinions but you get to decide whether or not to listen to them. So try to let those negative comments slide right off and keep writing.
Reader Comments:
Comments on your freelance articles can seem to be harsher than they were meant. Writing online makes it hard to convey emotions and your commenter may have left you a little joke.
Editor Comments:
Negative comments and rejections made by an editor may have been intended to be constructive criticism. Sometimes constructive criticism is difficult to take and so is rejection for that matter. Most editors know what they are talking about, so try not to take it too personally.
Peer Comments:
In some writing circles other unscrupulous freelance writers will attempt to gang up on new writers so they will become discouraged and leave. These old timers don’t want any new freelancers to steal a piece of their pie.
You can ignore their comments or address them and post a reply in your comments. If you have negative comments that can be removed from your work by all means remove them. If you choose to combat those negative comments be positive and be the bigger person. If you fight fire with fire you will just add fuel to their fire and they could stalk you and may eventually ruin your online presence.
If one writing site is terribly bad and you cannot escape the negative comments you will need to go elsewhere. Just don’t let those trolls and naysayers stop you from writing.
How to Deal:
Negative comments can come from anywhere including a parent, your best friend or spouse and they can end a writing career before it has even begun. You can’t stop people from voicing their opinions but you get to decide whether or not to listen to them. So try to let those negative comments slide right off and keep writing.
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