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What could be better than affordable tools that can help to boost your skills as a writer? Well, that is easy. Free Freelance writing tools. This is an immense collection of a variety of different tools that a freelance writer can use to improve their skills, personal branding, and their all-important reputation and credibility.

Not everyone will benefit from the same tools, however, every good writer knows that to be an online writer, you must content yourself with the fact that it is an ongoing learning process that can be altered by many aspects of writing trends, or even by touchy algorithms.

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Important!

Freelance Writers Reputation

The most important thing you can do as a freelance writer is to build and maintain a great reputation that includes reliability, flexibility, and much determination!

Quality Improvement

It never hurts!

Indeed, even the most experienced writer can suffer from burn-out or lack of focus that can be visible in their work. Try out these quality enhancing tools to impress every client you have!

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RoughDraft

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Paper Rater: Pre-Grade Your Paper

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WordWeb: Free English Thesaurus - Dictionary Download

Download a free English thesaurus and dictionary s more...0 points

Free Freelance Writing Guide for Beginner Writers

Writing Prompts and Brainstorming Tools

Everyone needs a boost from time to time!

http://www.notefish.com/

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Imagination Prompt Generator: Random Writing Blog Prompts, Writer's Prompt Tool

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Creative Writing Prompts

Creative Writing Prompts collection of writing pro more...0 points

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Writing Prompts

Generate random writing prompts.0 points

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Writer's Digest - Writing Prompts

Writing Prompts - Improve your writing with help f more...0 points

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Huge Thesaurus: Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes

Huge Thesaurus: Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes0 points

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Google Sets

Automatically create sets of items from a few exam more...0 points

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Kayuda

Helpful mind mapping tools0 points

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FreeMind

An open source mind mapping tool.0 points

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bubbl.us

Brainstorming!0 points

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Idea Champions

Helpful writing ideas0 points

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yWriter5 - Free novel writing software to help you write a book

yWriter5 is the latest version of this free novel more...0 points

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Remember Everything

Great note taking software!0 points

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Google Notebook

Note taking tools!0 points

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Jott

Jott it down with Jott0 points

The BEST Books for Improving Your Writing Skills

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Freelance Writing Education

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Plagiarism Tools

Although a reputable writer will never intentionally plagiarize, it is possible for it to be accidental. For this reason it is good practice for any freelance writer to be in the habit of checking their own work, as opposed to turning it over to a client to catch the errors.

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Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Duplicate Content Detection Software

Copyscape is a free plagiarism checker. The softwa more...1 point

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Free Online Plagiarism Checker Software For Plagiarism Detection

Free plagiarism checker for avoiding plagiarism, t more...0 points

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Chimpsky - Free Online Plagiarism Checker

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Advanced Plagiarism Checker | Free Article Checker Online

An online free article checker. Check for plagiari more...0 points

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The Plagiarism Checker

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Plagium ::: Plagiarism Checker & Plagiarism Tracker

Plagiarism Tracker, Plagiarism Checker,0 points

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PlagiarismChecker.com

Check Plagiarism On the Internet for Free. Teacher more...0 points

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Keyword Density Checkers

Often you may come in contact with clients who request that you keep a particular keyword density in the content you create for them. There can be many reasons ranging from article submission guidelines to search engine optimizations. Utilize some of the best free keyword density checkers here.

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Keyword Competitiveness Tool

Check out how competitive your chosen keywords are more...0 points

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Free Keyword Density Analyzer Tool

Free tool to help you find the most common words a more...0 points

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Live Keyword Analysis

A totally free tool to help you analyze your keywo more...0 points

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Keyword Density Analyzer Tool for SEO

Free, fast keyword density tool for search engine more...0 points

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Keyword Density Analyzer Tool for SEO Webmasters

A handy tool for webmasters and writers who need t more...0 points

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goRank - Keyword Rank Tracker, Keyword Density Analyzer, & Link Popularity Checker

Check out this all-in-one tool for keyword managem more...0 points

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Free Keyword Density Tool for Writers

Another killer tool for freelance writers managing more...0 points

Learn the Importance of Keywords

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Work-In-Progress

Remember that a real freelance writing career is always a work-in-progress. Just like medical careers, new alterations and innovations make this career one steeped in self-taught knowledge of current trends and requirements.

Free Marketing Tools That Freelancers Can Benefit From!

Research

Researching Tools

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Clusty

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Amazon.com:

Never forget to use Amazon for product review idea more...0 points

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Dogpile

This provides results from many search engines, bu more...0 points

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Academic Reference and Research Index

A search engine for selected information and refer more...0 points

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eBay Reviews & Guides

eBay Reviews and Guides provides product reviews a more...0 points

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Oaister

A great tool for researching and reviewing all dig more...0 points

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Writeboard

Sharable online documents0 points

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DeepDyve - Research. Rent. Read.

DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for more...0 points

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Webnotes

WebNotes Online Research Tool - Annotate PDFs and more...0 points

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Write With

Excellent collaborative writing tool.0 points

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Dmoz

Excellent source of information, specifically arch more...0 points

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Springnote

Your online notebook based on wiki0 points

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Intute

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Thinkature

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Don't Forget the Back Links

One element that freelance writers have to face when advertising their work is the usage of back links. However, sometimes finding a great site to provide quality back links that remain live can be difficult. Here are a few different types of sites that will provide your original blogs or articles with priceless back linking to increase your traffic.

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Active Search Results Search Engine

Active Search Results (ASR) is an independent Inte more...0 points

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Add Blog Url - Your Source for Social News and Networking

AddBlogUrl.com is a social news and bookmarking we more...0 points

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RedGage

RedGage is a website that pays you for your conten more...0 points

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Free Website URL Submission - Submit Google, Yahoo, Bing (MSN)

Free Website URL Submission to 40 top search engin more...0 points

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Bing Webmaster Tools

Submit your URL directly to Bing for indexing.0 points

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On Freelance Writing and Marketing Yourself

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Don't ignore the future!

At 26, everything is possible
Free-lance writer and columnist Billie Criswell is about to become a published short-story writer. The newest ?Chicken Soup for the Soul? book features her story, "Sweet Thereafter." The book is expected to come out Tuesday, May 29.
Stalking my serpent text
As a freelancer, I write for more of them than I have fingers on which to count. And so this week I said goodbye to a longtime boss of mine. She decided to leave the full time profession of letters to pursue a passion of working with the Girl Scouts.
Print/Mail Consultants Announces Ready-to-Use Communications Program
The inability to allocate the time to consistently write the articles, work with agency or freelance writers, or coordinate distribution is often the downfall of these well-meaning initiatives. The Ready-to-Use Communications Program comes loaded with ...
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Market Yourself

With Portfolios

Each time you create a portfolio for yourself online, you are adding one more thing to the search display prospective clients may see if they Google your name. Not only can the portfolio's give them better insight into you as a writer, it will also show them a level of professionalism and the seriousness of your career. Of course you should have a centralized portfolio as well, so remember that for each of the sites you submit a portfolio to, you are also gaining another link for your main writing resume.

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Carbonmade : Your online portfolio.

Carbonmade helps you build and manage an online po more...0 points

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Behance Network :: Gallery

The Creative Professional Platform. The world's le more...0 points

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Coroflot - Design Jobs & Portfolios

An employment community for designers: Make an onl more...0 points

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Deviant Art

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SHOWN'D

SHOWN'D has free online portfolios which allow art more...0 points

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Create a Free Portfolio Website at Bleidu.com

Create a Free Portfolio Website by uploading your more...0 points

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Create online portfolio!

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Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog

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Submit Your Blog

And RSS Feeds

Freelance writers who maintain their own blog should always submit their blog or blog feed to any submission service that will accept it. Here are a few of the top blog submission services, some of which will even allow users to vote on or critique your

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Blog Directory, Blog Submission, Submit Blog - Topblogging

A Blog Directory sorted by unique visitors. Submit more...0 points

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Top Web Blog Directory

Web Directory, internet resource Topweblogdirector more...0 points

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Blogs Rater - Blogs Lists, Reviews and Resources for Webmasters

Blogs Rater offers blog lists and resources for we more...0 points

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Blogzoop.com - The Ultimate Bloggers Resource

BlogZoop.com is a free blog directory. Join us and more...0 points

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Top RSS Blog Directory List - Blogroll Center

Submit RSS Feeds And Weblog urls to BlogrollCenter more...0 points

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Blog Directory and Blog Ratings

Blog Rate Directory - Human Edited, Categorized an more...0 points

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PlanetUSA.us - USA search engine

PlanetUSA.us - USA search engine0 points

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BlogoWogo - The Blog Network

A free blog submission network.0 points

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BlogsRanker

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“Writing is a hard way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators”

Resources

Great Places to Get Started or look for freelance writing projects!

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Squidoo

Squidoo. The popular (free) site for creating sing more...0 points

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Textbroker.com

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Bright Hub - Apply To Be A Writer Today!

Discover a wealth of Education, Health, Science an more...0 points

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Triond

Triond publishes user generated content on a netwo more...0 points

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Content Divas

Outsourcing Specialized in Traffic Generation, Org more...0 points

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Elance

Outsource to expert programmers, designers, writer more...0 points

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Odesk

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Copywriters

Our freelance copywriters work with small business more...0 points

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Break Studios

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Jobs for Bloggers

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ONLINE WRITING JOBS

ONLINE WRITING JOBS, ONLINE WRITING JOBS / Freelan more...0 points

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Freelance Job Openings : Hire a Freelancer!

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