If you’ve discovered a way to land a freelance writing job today, that method probably won’t again tomorrow. While a leopard can’t change its spots, the freelance writing job market is always changing.
Oh sure, it usually doesn’t change overnight, not quite.
Successful freelance writers learn to expect change. They pay attention to indicators , ask questions about what’s going on, and change their approach to how they land a freelance writing , aka, job hunting in order to meet the new conditions.
Indicators of change
When I look back on my writing career I see that I’ve been pretty good about adjusting to changes in the market. Like many of my age, I got my first typewriter, a portable manual, as a gift from my parents when I went off to college. I moved to an electric when I got an office job. I bought an old electric when I started. Back then we used rubber erasers to fix typos, then some genius invented White-out – a liquid we’d paint over errors then retype over that. You can’t imagine the time it took and the mess it made! Then came the self-correcting Selectric . And I was an early adopter of the personal computer – several years before they started to get popular.
Notice, please, that every move I made was toward making my life easier. I was also gifted with curiosity and a certain nerdy love of technology.
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