How To Make Money From Freelance Writing

If you want to make money from freelance writing, there are plenty of places that may consider using or publishing your writing.


If you’re passionate about writing, and need to either find a job or make some extra income, freelance writing may be just the thing for you.

Book: The 2012 Writers Market book has just over 1 000 pages, and lists over 3 500 opportunities for freelance writers trying to publish or sell their writing. The 2012 Writers Market book not only lets freelance writers know where they should try getting their writing published, but also gives fantastic tips on what freelance writers should charge for their writing. There are also many other highly valuable tips including how to promote your writing, and some blogging basics.

The 2012 Writers Market book’s list of markets to approach does not only include the name of the place to approach with your writing submissions, but also includes contact details and submission guidelines. The target markets to approach are well covered and include literary agents, book publishers, consumer magazines and trade journals.

More Books For Freelance Writers:

Instead of freelance writers spending ages trying to figure out where to try sell their writing, freelance writers can get great ideas, tips, and lists of places to approach, from writers’ market books.

Whether you are an article writer, novel or short story writer, or poet, there’s a writer’s market resource book for you.

Getting writing published in magazines, trade journals or in the form of a book is not the only way freelance writers can make money from their writing.

Other money making freelance writing options or opportunities include:

1. Writing descriptive and creative content for advertisement placements, for example for signs, banners, block ads, tshirts, posters, and brochures
2. Writing descriptive and creative content, possibly also Search Engine Optimized content for online advertisements
3. Writing articles that may need to be Search Engine Optimized for other people to use on their own sites
4. Writing and selling ebooks
5. Writing articles for a free blog you have, like a Blogger blogspot blog, and monetizing the site with affiliate links or banners, or Adsense ads, and drive traffic to the site
6. Writing articles for your own site (or blog) (“your own” meaning a site where you pay for domain registration and renewals, and for hosting) and then monetizing the site with affiliate links or banners, or Adsense ads, or sell advertising space directly, and drive lots of traffic to your site
7. Getting paid to blog on your own site
8. Getting paid to write blog articles on other sites
9. Writing articles for online writing sites that monetize their sites, and you get a share of the revenue the ads on your article pages generate
10. Entering (and doing well in) writing competitions
11. Writing reports or explaining findings after doing Internet research work for other people
12. If you speak more than one language, writing translation work
13. Applying for (and getting) a wide variety of writing jobs offered on online freelance job sites like oDesk

Check out the descriptions of these ebooks:

Write all the way to the bank

Be a 5 minute writer

Overnight writing income