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Is anyone here a freelance writer/journalist?
How did you get into it?
How do you like and maintain the lifestyle?

>> No.6369340

>>6369334
Step 1. Spend your advance on heroin
Step 2. Abuse heroin
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit

>> No.6369349

This is the third journalist thread.

Lurk guys

>> No.6369355

>>6369349
butters are you always online? what do you do other than /lit/?

>> No.6369356

>>6369349
I'm not looking to discuss journalism, mainly if anyone here is or knows of someone who's occupation is freelancing.

>> No.6369384

>>6369355
I hold down a jarb. I guess I spend about five or six hours on here.

>>6369356
Alright alright. Actually better than a lot of unrelated stuff. So bump.

>> No.6369390

>>6369384
>I hold down a jarb. I guess I spend about five or six hours on here.
What job do you have? How do you have time to read when you spend hours at your job and 5-6hrs on a Taiwanese Paper airplane-making BBS?

>> No.6369976

>>6369334
I'm a freelance writer and I am pretty sure I have seen a few threads on here with others in. I started writing as part of my normal full time job (writing documentation and stuff for my company's products) then started doing that as a freelancer then spread out to other topics.
Now I write some stuff as one-off articles which is more fun but that doesn't pay particularly well (not enough to live on) and my main income still comes from writing things like training courses. I would like this balance to change in the future. I don't generally write fiction.
On the whole it ebbs and flows but it is still better than having a normal job.

Tips:
It helps if you have a specialist area. If you don't have one, look at what's in demand, and learn that.
The way to become a better writer is to write more. And read more.
Have a routine. Sure there are some people who can pick words out of the air whenever they want but it doesn't work like that for most people. Find a place that works for you (libraries are good) and go there and stay there.

>> No.6370651

>>6369976
This is great advice.