Working Writer Hat

Most working writers have days when they lag behind on their work. Either the brief they are working on is getting them down - when you have written thirty or more articles on the same subject your writing seems to lose its freshness. It is on days like this that the writer has to remind her or himself that their writing is their bread and butter. You might prefer to be writing about damsels and dragons or cops and robbers, in which case take out twenty minutes and write it out. Once you have done this put your working writer hat back on and finish the brief. Sometimes a short foray into the fiction world can bring back the freshness to your words.

Weekend Working

Freelancing is great. You can work at a time of your choosing and stay in your pajamas all day if that is what you want. The downside of working from home is that you inevitably find yourself engaged in weekend working. TGI Friday does not apply to freelancers, if you are looking for a five day week then don't choose to work from home. Deadlines have to be met and clients are not concerned if the date they have chosen is a Saturday or Sunday rather than Friday or Monday. Freelancing can sometimes mean that you don't have as much free time as the nine to fivers, but you are doing something you love to do.

Freelance Writing Deadlines

Freelance Writing

If you are going to make a living as a freelance writer then you should keep to your freelance writing deadlines. Freelance writing can be a great way of making a living. For those who do it every day most of them will tell you that it is great to be able to do a job that you love. One of the problems for many writers is that there is a tendency to procrastinate in all of us. One of the things you will either love or hate about professional freelance writing is sticking to a deadline,

Deadlines

I find that having a deadline for my work can be a great motivator. It is, for example, great to see several articles that you have completed, it's even better to know tha you are going to get paid for them. But more to the point a deadline means that the work must be done. If you want more work and you don't want to disappoint the client who gives you that work then it's best to incorporate the idea of freelance writing deadlines into your writing life.

Work and Writing

Work

Work, especially freelance work can expand to fill the time available, largely because we spend time procrastinating or reading the latest Harrry Potter review. If you are going to make it as a freelance writer then you need to limit your surfing and procrastinating time and get on with the work.

Writing
Writing seems to be one of the worst professions when it comes to attracting procrastinators - we like to call it writer's block. Whatever tricks you use that stop you from getting on with the writing need to be isolated. If you have to sharpen your pencils every day then do it but once it's done start writing. If you have to surf everyday limit it to those times when you have earned a break i.e. when you have written at least three of those articles on your list.

Writing, Computers and Deadlines

Any writing that I do today is by way of catching up with things after my computer went down. Working writers, like other writers have to cope with any number of things in their writing life and still try to meet deadlines. I make deadlines a priority but when a bug strikes your computer then you could spend the few days after the bug is fixed ghosting to meet your deadlines.