Best Web Sites for Finding Freelance Writing Jobs

For the several few months, I have set Google alerts to notify me of sites that post new writing jobs for freelancers.  

By far, I’ve found that the sites listed below are updated with the greatest frequency, and contain the greatest variety of better paying freelance writing opportunities.  Without further ado, I give these sites the WriteSuccess Seal of Approval, and urge you to bookmark them (or set Google alerts as I do to receive email notifications that these sites have been recently updated): 

http://www.aboutfreelancewriting.com

 http://allfreelancewriting.com/

 http://www.freelancewritinggigs.com

 http://www.online-writing-jobs.com/ 

http://workingwritersandbloggers.com 

http://www.killfive.com/

 http://www.sunoasis.com/freelance.html

http://www.freelancewritingjobs.ca/ (Canadian writing jobs)

http://ghostwritinguncovered.com/Blog/category/european-writing-jobs/ (European writing jobs) 

Think I’ve missed any good ones?  Your suggestions and recommendations are always welcome!

If you’ve never set up a Google alert, you’re missing out on using a terrific free online tool.  Here’s how to receive automatic e-mail alerts on the latest writing jobs posted on the Web:

1. Go to Google.com
2. On the top menu bar, click “more”
3. From the drop down menu, click “even more”
4. Select “Alerts” from the top left-hand column of choices

You can set up your alerts here, choose how frequently you wish to be notified, and to what e-mail address you want notifications sent. I recommend setting up at least two different alert, one under “writing jobs” and another under “jobs for writers” (you can actually set up as many variations on this theme as you wish, and go back later to delete the alerts that aren’t bringing you the results you seek).  Then just let Google and e-mail do the work for you.

Welcome to WriteSuccess 2.0

Hello: 

I’m moving WriteSuccess again.  This time, I’m moving it home—to the home URL, that is, http://writesuccess.com . 

For the better part of the last nine years, I’ve published WriteSuccess as an e-zine.  That format suited me, as well as a core following of readers, just fine for the longest time. 

But I’ve found lately that the amount of time it takes to put each issue together, even an imperfect issue, versus the percentage of people who actually open it when it lands in their inboxes, hasn’t felt productive for me.  Moreover, I noticed that even my own online  reading habits have changed—I am now much more likely to crack open e-mails that I know will be quick reads than those that are jam-packed with articles, links and other information.  And when I have a few minutes, I’m more likely to check for personal and professional updates on Facebook and Twitter than log into my e-mail inbox.  It’s just the age we live in. 

As the popularity of social networking sites like the ones I mentioned above has exploded, and as blogs have become the main article publishing format for millions of people, I knew that I needed to reformat WriteSuccess if I wanted to continue to connect with writers online and keep delivering links, information, resources and inspirational pep talks as I’ve done for nearly a decade. 

In short, it was time for WriteSuccess to go Web 2.0. 

So from now on, you’ll find us in our new blog format, at our same old URL.  Over time, I will stop sending WriteSuccess via e-mail completely, and communicate solely to those who sign up for the blog feed, or to those who stumble across the site via my referrals from Twitter or through their own searches for writing information.  I urge those of you who continue to want to be notified of WriteSuccess updates via e-mail to unsubscribe from the e-mailo version of this newsletter and subscribe to the feed at the sign up box on the home page at http://writesuccess.com .  

I will post more frequent but generally much shorter updates on the WriteSuccess blog containing links to useful sites, resources and articles, interspersed with articles of my own, than I did when I published in e-zine form.  My aim is to make WriteSuccess a more valuable source than ever of information for writers who are trying to build successful writing careers. 

I also plan to continue to publish your WriteSuccess Stories—announcements about books or articles you’ve written, writing jobs you’ve landed, and/or writing contests you’ve won—so make sure to keep those coming. 

As always, I will welcome your comments and feedback.  In fact, my hope is that this blog format will make doing that even easier for you. 

Here’s to your writing success. 

Mary Anne

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