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November 21, 2009
Get a Freelance Life: mediabistro.com’s Insider Guide to Freelance Writing
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Category: Freelance Writing Books
Product Description
Write Your Own Check
Considering a career in freelance writing? Already a freelancer but seeking practical, solid advice on the basics of the business? Get a Freelance Life is the complete guide to all aspects of a freelance writing career, straight from the creators of mediabistro.com—the nation’s most connected, authoritative source for media professionals.
Learn how to:
• Write compelling pitch letters
• Network with the best in the magazine and newspaper industry
• Understand the freelance market and detect its changes
• Self-edit and rewrite your work
• Manage tight deadlines
• Negotiate contracts
• Survive the financial ups and downs of the freelance life
With plenty of insider advice and tips from the most successful freelance writers and editors in the country, Get a Freelance Life is a must-have resource for turning your freelance gigs into a full-fledged writing career.
Get a Freelance Life: mediabistro.com’s Insider Guide to Freelance Writing
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There is good information in this book but the authors reveal a startling lack of integrity when, in Chapter 4, they include anonymous entries from people describing how they pursue freelance projects at their full-time jobs. Stealing time from employers goes on all the time but it is unethical and is to blame for much of the decline of workplace productivity in this country. For the authors to encourage it undermines the validity and integrity of the rest of their book.
Rating: 2 / 5
Short and sweet. Nice for those new to the idea of freelance writing and are contemplating this career.
Rating: 5 / 5
The back of the book states “Write Your Own Check” well I am still waiting on my first article to be published so I continue to pay bills will I write my next novel in my trilogy. The first book The Vampire Next Door: The Outerworld. There is a great section on contracts and a lingo section that can teach you a thing or two, but the meat of this book is Part IV Write section. It will show you how to turn one idea into several and where to submit it. You will learn more about the publishing world that will carry over to other areas of writing. It is a must for my bookshelf.
Rating: 5 / 5
“Get a freelance life” is a functional and useful guide to anyone who wants to become a writer or journalist. From the first questions one should ask him/herself to how to pitch media and a easy explanation about journalism genres.
Simplemente IMPRESCINDIBLE!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was well written and organized in a fashion which is easy to follow and understand. Still, there wasn’t really anything new here. Only book on this subject that is different and a bit more truth driven is The Renegade Writer.
Although I only gave it 3 stars, it is one you might find used and spend less than cover for – might be nice to have in reference library.
Rating: 3 / 5