Am I Good Enough?: Re: Re: Going solo: getting on to being a professional freelance

» Big_Lou - Re: Re: Going solo: getting on to being a professional freelance

In response to message posted by Christy_Parker:

"Don't quit your day job" until you're making at least 50% of its income writing on weekends and evenings. If you can't/won't give up free time to write now it's fairly certain that you won't make it as a writer later, for writing is a hard, lonely job that I love. But then I'm odd.

I've been a full-tfreelancerncer since 1969 with well over 12,000 articles and columns -- I sell things more than once, 38 books, a musical All the Kings Horses and far too much else.

Nobody knows how they will do freelancing. In my case I quit law and started cold. The first year I made about $20,000 and after that have averaged $4,000 a month since. But I write very fast from three in the morning to noon and generally finish one article or two newspaper columns a day. So if you're looking at a life that amounts do finishing a term paper every day or two you're at the right place.

-- posted by Big_Lou