Working Effectively with A Professional Freelance Writer

Some people can show up to a job they don’t care about and go through the motions every day. That's not what you want in a car mechanic, an airline pilot or a professional freelance writer.

Every role I’ve held – as an employee or a volunteer – has produced some type of tangible result: an article, a story-telling photograph, money raised for a good cause, land made welcoming for a garden…you get the idea.

Raised in a large, self-sufficient family, I just figured that is how the world works. Every day, you look back and see what you’ve accomplished.

Little did I know how engrained this need to be effective was until recent years. Since 2018, I have left jobs and volunteer capacities because I felt like I was treading water. Why put in work when you’re just going to shuffle paper and not change the conversation or – even better – another person’s life?

That impact can arise from teaching people about the world around them by enticing them to read something they didn’t think would interest them. It could mean getting a writer to believe their words matter so they share more of them.

The power of the words of a professional freelance writer

Everyone has the ability to make that happen: authors, fundraisers, business operators, website developers, teachers at every level, chefs, and healthcare practitioners. You all change lives.

You may not realize the potential you hold and how vitally language plays a part in it. You need to get people’s attention, then hold it. You want them to see the vision you see and aspired for the world you want to create.

That comes with choosing the right words to build the dream. That means trusting yourself to believe in yourself. That means shaping the messages that will resonate with the right people to work with you to build momentum.

Last year, I took a course that opened my eyes to what I value and why certain things are not negotiable. Along the way, I learned that being effective matters deeply to me. I find it excruciatingly frustrating when people write but never publish o have a great idea that they don’t push out into the world in the best light.

The difference of hiring a professional freelance writer

If you want an editor to push you to realize your ambitions, then we are wired the same way. Every day, I help people ‘sell’ their work by getting them in front of the right audiences. That may be on a social media channel or via a book proposal to a publisher.

You may need a letter written to get your son to a safer supportive housing unit or to refuse a job offer without burning a bridge. Perhaps you are building a series of blogs that reflect the voice you want people to ‘hear’ when they read certain passages.

Maybe you have a complex idea that you want to make more accessible. Or a simple idea that needs to be fleshed out to show its real potential.

All of these examples are real scenarios of the work I’ve done in the past few months. And it is intensely rewarding.

If you want to work with someone who gets the job done, drop me a line. I would love to help you be more effective at whatever it is you are aiming to achieve.