I started blogging and this website for a few reasons. One was that it was cathartic. I write for a variety of clients and they all require different tones, writing styles and some even have really specific style guides. All of which is totally fine and, at times, kind of helpful. But it does feel…
I have either worked full-time or freelance as a writer for most of my life. My first ever proper job was writing for a magazine as a reporter when I was 18. I was shiftless and lazy back then and when I discovered I would get laid more working as a barman, I switched jobs….
I recently wrote about which was better – Medium or Fiverr. My opinions have changed recently but partly that is because I am idle but also because the income from both has suddenly flipped. What happened? My gig was doing well on Fiverr and I was posting the odd thing on Medium. On Fiverr, I…
Since I bravely stepped out into writing purely freelance, and not ‘for the man’, I’ve been doing a few side hustle jobs on Fiverr and Medium. This is mostly because ‘the man’ fired me thanks to Covid but I was freelancing on the side anyway. Both are very different websites and do things in a…
I had heard of Fiverr but assumed – and I think this is logical – that you only got paid a fiver. An American fiver too which is worse. I had signed up 4 years ago to see what the fuss was about, then made that logical jump and didn’t look at Fiverr again until…
My first ever job was writing for a yachting magazine in Hong Kong. I have since written both freelance and fully employed for magazines and newspapers in the UK, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. About 90 percent of that has been in print. The last thing I wrote was an article for the Bangkok Post…