Launching a new Substack and Medium Publication – Intriguing Times
As the title suggests, I’m launching a new Substack and Medium publication called Intriguing Times. It is all tremendously exciting. I don’t think many people…
Tag: Fiverr
From Time to Value: I’m Stopping Writing for Per Hour or Per Word Pay
I have been paid per word or per hour for about four years now. In previous bouts of freelance writing, dating back decades, it was…
From Fiverr to science fiction – I’m quitting the gig economy and going full nerd
I think I am pretty much done with Fiverr and am going all science fiction. Fiverr has been good to me, although it is getting…
My first full year as a freelance writer
I have just completed my first year as a full-time online freelance writer. I would love to be dramatic and say it has been a…
Increasing my Fiverr prices weirdly resulted in more work
I don’t mean for this to be a shameless promotion for my Fiverr gig. It is just that something unexpected has happened recently and for…
Going viral on Medium boosted freelance earnings to pre-covid levels
I went viral and it has changed a lot of things. If you are starting out as a freelance writer, take heart – it can…
I’m loving writing on Medium right now. Is a niche even needed?
Something weird has happened with algorithms on a few sites where I do side-hustle stuff. One has gone hugely up in terms of earnings and…
Are Writing Platforms like Medium or Fiverr worth it?
I have generally been a print journalist for most of my life but that has increasingly been something of a problem. When pitching for work,…