I'm sure you've heard of cancer clusters. In writing there's another kind of cluster, the "free" cluster. It's equally bad for your health.
This week I've had around a dozen email messages about free information: a real "free" cluster.
All the messages start off something like this:
Julia usually replies to these messages as kindly as possible, offering some suggestions.
When you don't know what you're doing, you get unexpected results
These readers are all caught in the same trap. They believe they can make a great income from their writing without learning anything at all.
There's lots of information available online. Some of it's great, some is mediocre, and much of it is plain wrong.
When you don't know what you're doing, you don't know what information to put into practice, and when you do take action, the chances are great that you omit to do something that's essential, or that you do something wrong.
You can waste a lot of time this way. In fact, you can waste an entire career.
Yes, I do provide lots of free information. Unfortunately "free" may be much more than you can afford, if you try to build a career on it.
When you pay for information, you not only get the information, you get help from me when you get stuck -- and you will get stuck at various times. I sell lots information for writers, and it all comes with coaching and help when you need it.
What you pay for that help is much less than it's worth.
Tip: get REAL information
There's a huge temptation, because there's so much that's free online, to believe that you can build an entire career on "free" information. Unfortunately, you can waste a lot of time this way, and it's time you'll never get back.
I provide a mass of free information for you, and I love doing it. I also provide a lot of information for which you pay. The "free stuff" makes much more sense when you have a grounding in the material first, and that grounding is in the paid material.
So do realize that free may be much more than you can afford if you want and need to make money from your writing.
This week I've had around a dozen email messages about free information: a real "free" cluster.
All the messages start off something like this:
Dear Angela
Thank you so much for all the free information you provide. I've been reading your sites and subscribe to Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.
I've been working on ___________ (a long description of what the writer's been doing: blogging, Web writing, copywriting etc) for ______(a long time) and I've made _________ (no money at all or a truly trivial amount).
Why are other people making so much money, and I can't make any (or so little)? What am I doing wrong?
Confused Reader
Thank you so much for all the free information you provide. I've been reading your sites and subscribe to Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.
I've been working on ___________ (a long description of what the writer's been doing: blogging, Web writing, copywriting etc) for ______(a long time) and I've made _________ (no money at all or a truly trivial amount).
Why are other people making so much money, and I can't make any (or so little)? What am I doing wrong?
Confused Reader
Julia usually replies to these messages as kindly as possible, offering some suggestions.
When you don't know what you're doing, you get unexpected results
These readers are all caught in the same trap. They believe they can make a great income from their writing without learning anything at all.
There's lots of information available online. Some of it's great, some is mediocre, and much of it is plain wrong.
When you don't know what you're doing, you don't know what information to put into practice, and when you do take action, the chances are great that you omit to do something that's essential, or that you do something wrong.
You can waste a lot of time this way. In fact, you can waste an entire career.
Yes, I do provide lots of free information. Unfortunately "free" may be much more than you can afford, if you try to build a career on it.
When you pay for information, you not only get the information, you get help from me when you get stuck -- and you will get stuck at various times. I sell lots information for writers, and it all comes with coaching and help when you need it.
What you pay for that help is much less than it's worth.
Tip: get REAL information
There's a huge temptation, because there's so much that's free online, to believe that you can build an entire career on "free" information. Unfortunately, you can waste a lot of time this way, and it's time you'll never get back.
I provide a mass of free information for you, and I love doing it. I also provide a lot of information for which you pay. The "free stuff" makes much more sense when you have a grounding in the material first, and that grounding is in the paid material.
So do realize that free may be much more than you can afford if you want and need to make money from your writing.
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