How to Become a Fulltime Freelance Writer: A Practical Guide to Setting Up a Successful Writing Business at Home

by Michael A. Banks

Think you're ready to take the plunge into a full-time freelance writing career? This hands-on resource provides scores of real-life success tips for becoming a professional full-time writer—all based on solid experience. This guide approaches writing as a career where hard work and management skills are just as important as talent. Readers will discover how they can plan their transition to a full-time writing career; tips for managing cash flow, accounting, taxes and other business issues; detailed plans for generating income as a writer in non-traditional ways; and much more. They'll also find many ready-to-use checklists as well as helpful lists of writers organizations, online writers networks, and other resources specifically targeted for the working writer.

Genres: Writing

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 17, 2008

About the author

Michael A. Banks is the author of 43 books, the most recent of which is Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. He also wrote the New York Times bestseller CROSLEY: Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation, The eBay Survival Guide, and several science fiction novels, as well as a number of other non-fiction books.

Also credited as Michael Banks.

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book well enough, even if it took me forever and a day to finish it, but I don't think it was a book for me, at least not at this point in my life, anyway. The author assumes that the reader has already published several books/stories/articles/etc., which is definitely not the case for me. So, it was sort of like trying to read, say, a college-level calculus or differential equations book, while still only being at a middle school algebra level. It isn't going to be very helpful at that level.

Well, it wasn't nearly as bad as that. That book was written in a personal, personable style that was easy to follow, and I enjoyed the book as a sort of autobiography of the author, even if the tips and advice given were for higher level writers than what I currently am in my (ostensible) writing "career" at this point.