Freelance Writing

Why should you hire me? Because I'm good. I'm not cheap, but I'm highly experienced and one of the best web writers you'll find. If you take a look at my feedback on Elance and RentACoder, located here, you'll see how well my clients speak about me. I have yet to have an unhappy client.

To hire me, you can contact me through my samples site, my blog or right here through this lens. I answer email seven days a week, so you'll never have to wait for an answer.

Not sure if you want to hire me for your web content or PR needs? Take a look through my many writing sample links located below. And if you need still more samples, just ask! I'd be happy to send along samples on just about any topic.

The information below is for those interested in getting into freelance writing. Beginning freelance writers often have no idea where to start and end up drifting aimlessly before giving up.

If you're serious about a career in freelance writing, start by reading as many books as possible about the field in general, SEO tactics and the business of writing. If you want to try book and magazine markets, also study The Writer's Market and similar titles. If you've never written professionally before and/or don't have a degree in the field, you'll also need to study the proper way to construct different types of writing.

If you're going to write well, you'd better hit the books. Knowing the basics of grammar and punctuation takes a lot more than just knowing what "sounds right." Yes, I've had more than one person tell me that they could be a reporter or an editor because they have a good ear for what sounds right. Wrong. Writing is a business, and you need to be well prepared to face its challenges before beginning.

A book certainly can't tell you how to be creative, but it can tell you what to do with that creativity. Get to know what kind of style is best for your writing and how to express emotion, or detachment, in your writing by studying the craft.

Elance is currently the most popular of them all. They have thousands of projects in every writing genre imaginable.

RentACoder is run much differently from Elance. There are no membership fees, but there are fewer writing projects available. Good projects can be found, but you have to do some digging. If you'd like to set up a project for me, just let me know.

Here is a complete run down of the best freelance bidding sites on the Web:
Freelance Bidding Sites

If you're doing SEO writing, you need to know your keywords. There are a few keyword tracking sites that supply the best keywords that are currently being searched right now. the best of those is said to be WordTracker. There's a free
version here. The paid version has some extra bells and whistles for the serious SEO writer. Here is a list of their current specials.