You spend hours writing an article.
You research the topic.
You edit every paragraph.
You choose a good image.
You publish it.
Then you wait.
Nothing happens.
A few days pass.
Then...
You finish writing an article.
You run it through Grammarly.
A few seconds later, you have a list of suggestions.
A sentence is too long.
A word could...
You finish an article.
You read the last sentence.
And you think:
“Done.”
I’ve had that feeling many times.
Then I read the same article the next morning.
Suddenly, things...
I’ve written about subjects I knew almost nothing about when I first received the assignment.
That’s one of the strange things about professional content writing.
A...
There’s a particular kind of message every freelancer likes receiving.
“Hey, are you available for another project?”
No proposal.
No introduction.
No portfolio link.
No convincing the client that...
I made this mistake when I started writing professionally.
I wanted my writing to sound mature.
So I used bigger words.
I made sentences longer than they...
I learned something about clients quite early in my writing career.
Not everyone who needs a writer understands what writing actually involves.
Back in 2014 and...
I used to think the hardest part of freelancing was writing the actual article.
Later, I realized there was another problem.
Getting someone to give you...
I still remember when I started getting paid around 40 paise per word.
That was my reality in the early days.
For technical writing, I sometimes...
A few years ago, I wouldn’t have been surprised if someone asked me this question:
“Aren’t content writing and copywriting basically the same thing?”
Honestly, I...
