I’ve come across this really useful website- Get Money, Get Paid – pay rates for emerging writers. This is accurate as of May 2012. I think that if you’re a newbie freelance writer, it helps to have some kind of ballpark figure of what’s out there, instead of working yourself to the bone for peanuts.
From my experience, the budget and types of projects on Elance vary widely. Personally, the thought of churning out regular blog posts for peanuts doesn’t appeal to me. On the other hand, bidding for writing projects that pay better (sometimes, ridiculously better) is very hit-and-miss. It’s all a balancing act, and the ingredient for success is persistence, persistence, persistence.
I’m a firm believer in not selling yourself short. This is why I really enjoyed and recommend that you read 3 Excuses That Are Keeping You From A Successful Freelance Writing Career. The Renegade Writer talks about how it’s our self-limiting beliefs that prevent writers from reaching our full writerly potential, and this includes financial success.
Like many things in the world, it all starts from within. Do you believe in yourself, and your writing?
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Raidah Shah Idil is a student counsellor, poet, writer, and creative instructor with a passion for YA (young adult), fantasy, sci-fi and detective fiction. She was born in Singapore and moved to Australia at the age of 12. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (English) and Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from the University of New South Wales in 2005.
After working as a marketing copywriter and studying the Islamic Sciences in Amman, Jordan for nearly two years, she returned to Sydney, got married, then moved to Malaysia. While working as a part-time tutor at Axiom Learning, she works as an online counsellor for Seekershub Global. She has completed her Diploma of Counselling through the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors. Her full-time job is raising her baby daughter. Everything else is squeezed in between. Literally. Her writing has been published in The Feminist Wire, SISTERS magazine, Daily Life, Lip Mag and Venture Beat. Raidah’s poetry was recently published in the ‘Armed With Only Our Souls’ online DDFS chapbook by New York poet Caits Meissner. Her debut double-featured novel, “Finding Jamilah and the Story of Yusuf” was published by MyLegacy publications in early 2014.
In her spare time (ha), she reads, listens to audiobooks, goes on walks, and is always on the lookout for tasty noodle soup. She currently lives in a green, leafy suburb in Kuala Lumpur with her husband, three small children and mother-in-law.
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