You write 4 articles a month at $200 per piece, you make $9,600 a year. At $400 a piece, you make $19,200 a year. At $1,000 a piece, $48,000 a year. And $2,000 a piece? $96,000 a year. Being a six-figure freelancer doesn’t look too tough now, does it?

I’m often guilty of spending too much time inside my own head, and not making a lot of contact with the outside world. Unless I’m on assignment, it can be days before I have a decent conversation with a normal person. When I’m on assignment though, suddenly I go through a personality makeover and I’m […]

While pitching a query letter on something a friend and I are doing together, I needed to write up 100-word bios for each of us. Here are some statistics: Time taken to research and write the query letter: 2 hours 45 minutes.Time taken to write his bio: 15 minutes.Time taken to write my bio: 4 hours 20 […]

I’m officially declaring that I will no longer work with start-ups. Here’s why: Magazine No. 1: The editor loved not only my work, but me as well. So much so that she paid me in advance, offered me a regular column at three times their usual rates and sent a copy of the issue as […]