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$40,000 A Year In “Editorial Services”

By on March 30, 2003 in Ideas

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When I started out as a freelance writer the market for such services was a bit different than today. Most freelance writing then was “on spec” – you wrote something, a story or an article, then peddled it. If a publisher bought it, he or she provided editing, typemarking, payout, and other services to prepare it for production. Once the publisher bought it, you were finished with it.

Today there is an entirely different market for freelance writers, an enormous business market. You don’t (usually) get bylined, and you don’t write best sellers – but you don’t work on spec, either, and you don’t starve in a garret. You get paid for everything you write because you write to order, at an agreed-upon price, which you have set or negotiated. And you can work this entire market or you can specialize in segments of it, as you wish. (Most of us begin by working the entire market until we finally get into some specialized segment, for one reason or another.)

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,198 posts to the site.

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