3 Perils for Professional Freelance Writers to Avoid
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You’re an awesome writer. So why aren’t your clients in awe?
Most of us become freelance writers because… well, we’re talented writers. We love finding the perfect words and putting them together with skill and finesse. We take our craft seriously and work hard to deliver polished, readable copy to our clients.
But sometimes we turn in our best work only to have the client come back to us with a less than enthusiastic response. When it happens, it’s easy to fall prey to self-doubt: “Am I not an awesome writer, after all?”
In fact, when good writers get a bad reaction to their work, it often has less to do with the quality of their writing skills than the quality of their people skills. After all, we become writers because we’re good with words, not clients. But to become a successful freelance writer, we need to learn to manage clients as skillfully as we manage the words on the page.
Are you getting the balance right? Take a look at three limiting beliefs writers fall into when they pay more attention to the words themselves than to the clients who pay for them.
