What's Stopping You from Starting a Freelance Writing Business?

One of the best times to start a freelance writing business is when you're not ready to. And, while this may seem like an oxymoron statement, it's not.

Many freelance writers use some or all of the following reasons to delay their freelance writing dreams. Which one is your freelance writing dream snatcher?

Timing: If not now, when? Many wannabe freelance writers delay, delay, delay - until their website is done, until their new logo is perfect, until those samples are just right. Enough! If you wait until everything is perfect, you will never start that freelance writing career that you desire so much.

These are all stalling tactics - fear masked as "I have to do X before I can start." Do you know how many people this kind of thinking has stopped from achieving their freelance writing dreams?

I don't have any money: Have a computer? Have an internet connection? Then you have everything you need to start a successful freelance writing career. Luckily, sending emails don't cost anything but time. And, if you don't have money, time is your best marketing weapon.

I work full time; I don't have any time: If you want to start a freelance writing career - or achieve any other goal - then you have to make time, plain and simple. Get up an hour early and send out some email queries. Spend the weekends putting up a basic freelance writing website. Write samples to post to your website on your lunch hour.

Many of us are not as squeezed for time as we pretend to be these days. "I'm so busy I never seem to have any time," has become a catch-all phrase to explain a lot of procrastination in my humble opinion. If you want a successful freelance writing career more than you want anything else, you'll find the time.

Once you put to rest these basic arguments for starting a freelance writing career, what's left?

I'm Not Ready to Start a Freelance Writing Career

The statement above is what you're left with - plain and simple. And you know what? This is just fear talking. If you dream of a freelance writing career, but the timing never seems to be right for you to start, that's exactly when you should start it.

Starting when you're not "ready" will help to steel you against the joys and sorrows of being a freelance writer. How? Freelance writing is a peaks and valleys kind of career. You can be busy one week, and it will be dead silent the next. But, you know what, that's kinda how life is.

There never seems to be a perfect time where everything hums along smoothly, right? Then you
already have a taste of what it's like to be a full-time freelance writer.

Industry Report on Freelance Writing

Starting a freelance writing career when you're not ready can be the best on-the-job training you'll ever get. For more on this subject, read this free freelance writing industry report.

About the Author: Yuwanda Black is an SEO copywriter and the author of How to Make $250+/Day Writing Simple, 500-Word Articles. Ms. Black says, "You can work from home as a freelance writer in your PJs, getting assignments via the internet. I do it every day." She blogs at InkwellEditorial.blogspot.com.