You know the old adage: Everyone makes mistakes. But when you don’t recognize that you’ve made a mistake, sometimes you can get into that endless cycle of making the same mistake over and over again. For freelance writers, it’s easy to fall into the trap of mistake-making if you’re never alerted to your mistake in the first place! Kelly James-Enger at at Dollars and Deadlines has published a post about some common mistakes that freelancers make, and how to recover from them. Here is a roundup of some of Kelly’s greatest tips on how to recognize a freelancing mistake, and how to correct it.
- With a deadline around the corner, you didn’t proofread–or didn’t proof closely enough.
- You forgot you’re not writing for yourself–you’re writing for a client or editor.
- Yikes! You forgot a deadline!
- You were busy, busy, busy…and now you’re dead, work-wise. Here’s why.
- You wrote an awesome query or LOI…and then? You fell off the face of the planet.
- You turned in a great piece; too bad is that it’s not the one your editor assigned. Oops!
Find out more tips from Kelly in the full article here.
What are some of the most common mistakes you have made as a freelance writer? How do you recover from them? Let us know in the comments!
