Struggling with working for yourself/working from home/freelancing? Here are some tips.
Why freelancers need friends (and how to find some!)
It’s a freelancing paradox. On one hand, if you’re self employed, existing friends pop out of the woodwork at all hours of the (traditional) work…read more →
Why in business, less can be more.
Working on the road these last few weeks has reminded me of many things I already knew. Picnic lunches on remote beaches are far more…read more →
3 tools you’ll need to set up your mobile office.
Living the dream? You tell me. In theory, I can work remotely any time I like. I’m freelance. If I want to, I can work…read more →
Are you hopeless at working from home? Try these 5 solutions.
This last fortnight at least half a dozen friends – mostly of the journo and/or blogger variety – have complained to me about their absolute…read more →
Hi Sue,
you have a great website. Thanks for posting tips for freelancing. I have one query. Do you have your case studies lined up before you pitch to editors. This is the time consuming part for me (lining ppl up before I pitch). And the frustrating part. Would ‘potential’ interviewees be acceptable in the pitch? Often interviewees take a long time to get back to you-in the meantime the editor may not even want the story. So it’s a waste of time waiting when you could be moving onto other ideas. Also do you put things out on spec?
many thanks,
Julia
Hi Julia.
Glad you’re enjoying the blog/site. Lots of questions in there! All good questions but most/all of those are answered in the course/s I teach at the Australian Writers’ Centre (follow links from site), or if you’d prefer something more 1-1, I’m happy to book you in for a mentoring session. (Details under mentoring on my website.) Unfortunately, I have to be very disciplined about keeping general questions to one of these two formats or I’d never meet my own deadlines.
Sue 🙂