Your guide to building a successful freelance career in media and creative industries. Go Freelance covers finding clients, setting rates, managing your business, and navigating the unique challenges of working for yourself.
208 articles
An experienced ghostwriter shares her tips and what to expect on this obscure career path
A ghostwriter is a person who writes things for other people, and then those people put their names on it. You are paid to write things, and nobody will ever know you wrote it because other…
Karen Dikson
If you’re a freelancer, chances are a good portion of your time is spent on monetary tasks, like checking up on invoices and determining your rate for different clients and projects. Yup, without an accounting…
John Lombard
Veteran freelancers explain their missteps, so you can avoid making the same mistakes.
Amanda Layman Low
You’re a talented, ambitious and hard-working writer. Difficult editors? High editorial standards? Tough-to-wrangle sources? None of those obstacles faze you. But that doesn’t mean your writing career is unassailable. Making the following mistakes could mean…
Aja Frost
Whether it’s to earn a few bucks on the side or to move toward a full-time income with amazing “work-life balance,” there are millions of pros going freelance each year. We’re living in the gig…
Andrea Williams
Seasoned editors advise freelancers on the best ways to keep the assignments coming.
Andrea Williams
From a distance, freelance writing sounds dreamy because of the freedoms that are associated with the gig life, like creating your own schedule and working wherever you please. But, freelancing isn’t all fat paychecks and…
Ayana Young
Freelancing as a full-time or part-time endeavor is hard, any way you cut it. Working in a gig economy as a writer, editor, marketer or in another field, where projects ebb and flow can be…
Anni Irish
In the early years of his career, Luke Duggleby found himself in a situation that he hadn't quite anticipated. He had traveled to East China to meet villagers protesting against massive pollution caused by a…
Ayana Young
