I did a fun interview last month with Grace Bello, who is a journalist, copy writer and writing teacher who writes for the Freelance Strategist. The (very smart!) piece is now up over here. If you don’t …

Here is a rule that I have about email: Once more than five people send me a link to something, I have to really read it and Have Thoughts. This week, it will not surprise you to hear that the …

Co-worker Walter gets on top of some filing. 

Introducing a new feature for The Freelance Life: Day in the Life snapshots! I love when other blogs do these — especially So How Was Your Day?, which obviously does …

When you’re starting out as a freelance writer (or really, in any creative/media-driven career), this really annoying thing happens: People ask you to work for free. A lot.

I don’t know too many lawyers or investment bankers or insert-almost-any-other-profession-here who …

Alright, alright, it’s finally time for us to finish up these business plans that we started oh so long ago.

The good news is, if you’ve already written up your professional goals and financial goals, you are basically set …

I’m going to interrupt the Business Plan Writing series real quick here, because I want to show you this. Brace yourself. It’s a lot.

Yes.

I’m posting that as big as Dashboard will let me — if you’re all squinty …

The Brilliant Business Plan Top in Gold, by Mod Cloth. 

Previously on The Freelance Life, we talked about useful resources and what you need to have in place before you quit your day job. But as I said …

I get this question so often. People are miserable with cubicle life, itching for a more flexible schedule and ability to be outdoors in the daylight hours, and they want to up and drop everything and hang out the freelance …

So a couple of things are going on.

First, and this is going to sound very humblebrag, but I get a lot of emails from people wanting to pick my brain about being a freelance writer. And I actually really …