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My Freelance Writing Journey: Right from the Beginning to Where I Stand Now

This February (2018) marked the 9th year of my career as a freelance ghostwriter and copywriter. There were so many questions boggling my mind about how far have I come now. It'll be just one more year and I'll have completed a decade in my career as a freelance writer.... 10 years! Wow! Sounds like a really long time, although it feels like I only started yesterday!  I was asking myself: What have I done so far?  Have I done enough? Should I stop now or continue doing what I have been during all these years? Too many questions, right? But they all seemed to be jumping around in the little mind that I have, as if it was a trampoline. They needed to be answered somehow so they would stop bothering me, so I looked back to where I began and continued to ponder..... Freelance Writing for Triond When I first started writing back in 2009, I just wrote articles and published them on a website called Triond. What a sheer waste of time it was! I published over a hundred ar...

My Experience as a Freelance Writer

9 years! Yes, this year (2018) marks the 9th year of my career as a freelance ghostwriter and copywriter. I would like to share my experience here for others who would like to take on the same journey of establishing their careers in freelance writing, and learn from the mistakes I made. When I started back in 2009, I was newly married, in a new place, with a new life ahead of me. I had nobody to guide me on where and how to begin. I knew absolutely no one- NO ONE, who was working as a freelance writer. I started with zero knowledge and experience. All I knew was I could write. I was determined I could use this skill of mine to earn myself a living while still being able to look after my home and family. How could I tell others about it? How could I sell this skill of mine, and make any money out of it? I knew nothing. My only friend back then was Google, and not to mention, my husband, who supported me with what I wanted to do. 1. Triond: Google search engines brought up a plat...