The WM Freelance Writers Connection

By Tiffany Jansen During the last two years, I’ve been conducting a lot of interviews for some of the publications I write for. I’ve interviewed writers, authors, singers, artists, business owners, expats, architects, baseball players. WWII veterans, Holocaust survivors, doulas, midwives… I love doing interviews. Finding out more about a subject and a topic. Coming up with [...]

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by Tiffany Jansen For the first two years of my freelance writing career, I worked for content mills. I took my work seriously and researched, proofread, and even interviewed in order to come up with the best possible content. In return, I got $15 per article. At most. Why did I subject myself to this? [...]

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By Tiffany Jansen Content mills tend to get a bad rap in the writing industry, and there are definitely things writers should be wary of when considering writing for a content mill. However, writing for content mills can do great things for writers. First let’s identify what a content mill is? Freelance writer and About.com contributor Allena [...]

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By Tiffany Jansen Content mills tend to get a bad rap in the writing industry. Some publishers, editors and agents won’t take you seriously if you include your content mill work in your pitch. Many writing mentors and teachers cringe to discover that their clients churn out articles for content mills. A large chunk of writing sites and [...]

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by Linda Stephens As we all look at photos of Irene’s attack on the east coast, I’m thinking about my friend Jen Henderson. Jen is a freelance writer…and a PhD student, teacher, wife, plastic-free Ashtanga yogi, storm chaser, family history writer and cat herder. She’s, well, eclectic. You might have noted “storm chaser” in the [...]

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