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Freelance Writers: Here is the Number One Secret to Landing an Endless Stream of Writing Clients
I was thirsty for work but couldn’t find anywhere to drink.
When I launched my career as a freelance writer over 10+ years ago, I imagined that all successful freelance writers knew one particular secret. Why did I imagine this?
Well, I was thirsty for work but couldn’t find anywhere to drink. I’d walked to the middle of the desert, looking for an adventure, having been told there was an oasis of great possibilities over the horizon, and my water bottle had run dry.
There was no oasis in sight.
Successful freelance writers knew exactly where to find the oasis in the desert. They knew a secret location, a well-spring of gigs providing lucrative streams of cash flow.
Only, they wouldn’t tell me … because the water supply at the oasis was limited. If they shared the location with any Tom, Dick, or Harry, the work would quickly run dry.
So anyone who had found the oasis was bound to a conspiracy of silence.
What I’ve just described is a common problem for newbie freelance writers, taking their first step into a new profession made up of the desert beast waiting to attack.
