STEPPING OUT: FREELANCE WRITING

After a particularly long day at work, I sat down at my computer and tried to write, but I was so exhausted that the words (wherever they were) wouldn't come. I thought about how tired my body was, how my feet hurt, and how I hadn't spent but an hour with my husband that day, and I thought,

"Wouldn't it be nice to be writing for a living already?"

No clocking in, no being stuck in one building for 9 hours five days a week in a dull uniform. No dealing with angry customers trying to get privileges for things against policy, then blowing up on me for no good reason.

What if everyday, I woke up, saw my husband to work, then came home and put on the cutest OOTD I could create? I could take my time applying my make-up, even try new looks, and actually wear the other items in my closet outside of my uniform, and spend my day in the park, or at a coffee shop, or at the mall, or... anywhere! And my sole focus would be writing, reading, and doing whatever I pleased?

Thus the road to freelance writing began.

I've spent hours online looking for where to start, and found awesome advice about creating samples, finding your expertise, and getting new clients. I'm happy to say I've already started looking for opportunities and creating a blog of samples to send my future clients to. And I found three jobs to try for!

People make a living off of 1-2 post a day! A good living at that! My goal is that in 1 year, my writing will bring in enough to supplement my current income, and I'll have the option of letting the 9-5 world go.

I'm still going to be a novelist, but this is going to build a following who will support me once I'm published and it brings in money will I work on that endeavor.

Cheers!