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Replying to @lyss How to find freelance writing and editing opportunities! 🖊️ Freelancing Opportunities by Kaitlyn Arford is great. She collects not just journalism calls for pitches, but also for copywriting, video editing, social media production, and more. ✈️ Going Places by Yulia Denisyuk is all about travel writing and content production – so if you’re itching to storytell about your latest adventure, it’s a great place to start 📰 The Writer’s Job Newsletter, Inside the Newsroom, and Study Hall are also very useful places to look for pitch calls. I look for contract editing gigs that have a day rate as well as calls for pitches from publications I admire. My current editing gig rate is $500/day, but the work is rather light. $1000/day for heavy structural work is pretty standard. I chase publications that pay higher rates for journalistic writing, around $1/word, or starting at 2k flat rate I’m willing to take on work that pays less than that if I really like working with that editor, if it’s timely, or if I know it won’t take me too long to do. Or if they are a new independent publication. (I totally understand this as someone who is starting her own publication! Budget is hard when you don’t have a lot of resources, but legacy publications definitely have more room to give.) I figured out my own rate by doing a reverse calculation of my previous salary, and then see how much I need to make a month after taxes. So, I usually made some 5,600 a month at my old job after taxes – to make that much money as a freelancer, I would need to make $8k a month to account for the 30 percent I’ll save for taxes. I’m well short of that right now, so I wouldn’t call myself a success story. But I am proof that it’s possible to make money doing the things you love on your own terms. I could certainly take on more editing work or add more feature writing to my plate, but also, I have to remind myself, I’m starting a publication from scratch, and that requires the majority of my focus. I’m Izzie, the founder of your soon to be favorite publication. We’re launching our Substack in November and an app the spring of next year. Follow to stay tuned on my founder journey. #freelance #writing #howImakemoney #careertips #freelancingtips

izzie ramirez

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