3 Reasons Why Your Friends or Family May Not Want to Support You in Your Freelance Writing Business

Reason #2 — “I Wasn’t Able to Be Successful at Freelance Writing, So You Won’t Be Either!”

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As if being a newbie freelance writer isn’t hard enough, there are always people who are ready to tell you what they really think about you and your writing business.

Here are a few of the negative thoughts you’ll hear coming from others when you make the decision to leap into freelance writing and entrepreneurship — and what you can do about it.

Reason #1 — “You Won’t Want to Hang Out With Me Anymore”

Many, many people will say they want to be freelance writers and start their own writing business, but most of them would rather talk about it than really put forth the action necessary to achieve such a dream.

If you are one of the few who have the abdominal courage (guts) to actually execute your writing dream, your less passionate and motivated friends may feel threatened.

In fact, one might think to herself, “She won’t want to hang out with me anymore, and won’t want to gripe about how much we hate working at Denny’s.”