Can i be a freelance write as a teen?
Hey, i'm 16, and looking to make extra cash. and I wanna make money by doing something i like, and i have no time for a real job, and i hear about freelance writing. I was wondering if anyone could sort out the details and help me pursue freelance writing, if thats possible. I'm 16, with no debit/credit cards, just hoping to make a small dream come true! Thanks!
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The only way you're going to make is to submit your articles to as many people as you can and hope that one of them bothers to pay you for it.
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For freelance writing I would check out: http://www.chrisblogging.com It is a great blog about freelance writing. He is also already very successful in the profession.
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You can always freelance, if you can write good. Check out Writer's Market* (you can either buy it or find it at your local library) and submit some stories; they won't really care how old you are, they won't even know how old you are. If you write well, and write something that they want--they will pay you for it. Now, if you want to freelance for a company that is a horse of a different color ... you may need to interview with the company and provide writing samples to prove that you can write well. When I first started, I published some of my stuff in magazines that only paid in copies and not in cash. It is hard to get poetry published. It is also hard to get paid for short stories; however, it is easier to get paid for a short story that you wrote then it is to get paid for a poem that you wrote. The easiest thing to write and get some "good" money out of is non-fiction. Just pick a topic that you like and write about it. Send it off to a magazine, and you might get lucky. It is usually considered bad manners to submit the same story to several publishers; however, if you have many stories you can submit them all at once. *Writer's Market will tell you what a magazine wants, how much it will pay you for it, and how long it will take to get paid. Hope this helps
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