Time Management Tips for Writers!

by Suzanne Lieurance

If there’s anyone who needs to master time management it’s the fulltime freelance writer. Here are some time management tips from seasoned pros. Follow these tips and start earning more money now!

1) Don’t take on too many small writing projects that pay peanuts. Many beginning writers take on a slew of jobs, like writing daily blog entries for companies that pay $7.00 per post, or short articles that pay only about $20.00 for a 400-500 word piece. These kinds of projects SOUND like a good idea. They can be finished quickly, and, if a writer can manage to acquire enough of these types of jobs, he/she can generate a steady income of cash. But the problem is, these small projects tend to eat up more time than you think, leaving you with less time to do the projects that will bring in substantial income.

Instead of taking on a bunch of these tiny jobs, try this. Plan out how much money you’d like to make from writing each month. Then, get to work finding a few jobs that will produce that amount of income. An article for a glossy magazine might pay $1.00 a word. If you manage to get an assigned article of 1,000 words, then you’ve got $1,000 of income from that one project alone.

Once you get good at cranking out quality articles and have established relationships with several magazine editors who will give you regular assignments, you could even write two to three magazine pieces a month, earning between $2,000 and $3,000 just for those articles.

True, it will take time to build relationships with magazine editors, but wouldn’t you rather be working on developing those relationships through thoughtful queries and articles rather than writing for peanuts all day, knowing you’ll NEVER earn more from that type of work?

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