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Being a new writer is never easy. These articles are to help you understand the meaning of freelance writing and begin your new career.

Before you start freelance writing:

Top 3 Reasons Why Freelancing is Cool

Ditch Your Job And Start Freelancing – It Is Not That Easy

Scams in Freelancing – How To Detect A Scam

Why FreelanceAIR is Important – Check Through Before You Bid for Projects

Writing Emails – The Do’s and Don’ts

Understanding the Writing Career:

Understanding Freelance Writing

What You Should Not Do As A Freelance Writer

How Do You Know Your Freelance Career Is Expanding

Get the Tools and Weapons you need:

Writer’s Tools

Getting your payment right:

The Right Rate – Calculating Tool

The Right Rate to Charge

Getting Paid For Your Work Through PayPal

Where to find freelance writing jobs:

Freelance Writing Jobs – Where to Find Them and How to Get Jobs That Pay

Protect yourself:

CopyScape and Other Plagiarism Checkers

Marketing Yourself as a Writer:

Twitter – How You Can Promote Yourself

Have some fun while freelancing:

Don’t Be Scared To Waste Time Browsing These

Will Write For Chocolate Comic Strips

Passive Income:

Triond As a Source of Passive Income

More Ideas:

When Writing is Boring…

If You Have A Lot of Comments, You Can Turn Them Into Posts

What To Do When You Are Rejected

Straight To The Point

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I found out plenty of tools from Lorelle on Wordpress. These tools are important especially writing and blogging.

Beware! There are so many tools here, perhaps more than 100 links. Be sure to set aside some time to go through these.

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New to freelance writing? Check out these tools:

Writer’s Tools

When you suffer from Writer’s Block, have a look here:

If you need more resources on specific topics, these would be useful:

Social Bookmarking:

Keep up with the most popular sites to get an idea of the topic to blog or write about:

If you want to know what people are looking for on the web, use these:

Webcrawler Search Spy – Live Viewing of Search Keywords (Adult and Filtered Views)
MetaSpy – Live Viewing of Search Keywords (Adult and Filtered Views)
LiveMarks – Live Del.icio.us Feed
Digg Spy – Live View of Diggs
LiveMarks – Top Ranking from Del.icio.us
Kanoodle Search Spy – Live Search Preview
Meta Eureka – Voyeur (Manual Refresh)
Joe Ant – Top Search Keywords Live
AOL Hot Searches
Dogpile – Search Spy Live Search Preview (Adult and Filtered Views)
Search Words
Search Hippo
Search King – Top 25 Search Words
Eurekster – Advertising and Keyword Search
Fravia – Web Searchlore (Keyword and Search Tips, Techniques, and Methods
Analogx – Top Search Keywords
MSN Insider – Top Searches
DWoz – Top Keywords and Search Phrases
Yahoo Buzz – Top Searches
Google Zeitgeist Global – Top Search Results Globally
Google Zeitgeist – Top Search Results
Google News Top Searches for 2005
Lycos Top Searches for 2005
Yahoo Top Searches for 2005
Search.com Top Searches for 2005
Ask (aka Ask Jeeves) Top Searches for 2005
AOL Top Searches for 2005
Dogpile.com (via Infospace – metasearch engine searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and others for 2005
A9’s Top Search Words with 9 Letters for 2005
Search Engine Watch – Google and Yahoo Make Dogpile’s Top Searches Of 2005 List
Yahoo! Canada 2005 Year in Review Top Searches
London Free Press – Janet Jackson top pick for Google searches
The Manila Bulletin – Top IT Stories for 2005
BBC News – Google Taps Into Search Patterns
Search Engine Watch – 5th Annual Search Engine Awards (from earlier this year)
Year in Review: Year of Heroes and Weasels
CodeCubed – Tree Map (based on Del.icio.us)
Newzingo – Google News Tag Map

Take a leaf out of someone’s book:

Mag Portal for online magazines and research information
Comment Content – part of Creative Commons
LookSmart – Find Articles
Bloglines (Aggregator/Feeds)
FeedDemon (Aggregator/Feeds)
Feedreader (Aggregator/Feeds)
Findory (Aggregator/Feeds)
NetNewsWire (Aggregator/Feeds – MAC)
NewsGator (Aggregator/Feeds)
Radio UserLand (Aggregator/Feeds)
Crayon – Create Your Own Customizable Online Newspaper
PR Web (Press Releases)
US National Archives
About.com – About Everything
News Lab
US News Archives – Newspaper Archives
University of Toronto – Internet Resources and Metasites
Ask a Librarian
The Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Librarian’s Internet Index
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills in Education (US Gov)
High Beam Library Research for News, Images, and Statistics
H2O Playlist – Intellectual Content and Reading Lists
Poynter Online – Journalist Links and Resources
CyberJournalist Super Search Tools
Power Reporting – Free Research Tools for Journalists
PR News Wire
News Trove – Search News by Viewpoint
Yahoo Directory of RSS Formats and Aggregators
Time Magazine Archives
Bloghop – Connects Readers with Blogs
Assignment Editor – Newsroom Home Page
E-How – How Things Work
How Stuff Works
Journalism Net – Massive Research Resources and Links
Internet Public Library
National Press Club – Library and Research Links and Resources
The Refdesk
Bartleby References and Quotes
Journalist Express – One Stop Links and Resources for Journalists
Monitor This – Create Custom RSS Search Feeds
Voice of the Shuttle

Can’t find what you want? Use the search engines to find information:

You know what topics you want to write about. Use these to manage easier:

Special site for submitting your blog posts for voting: BlogEngage – by Brian.

Blogs You Should Read As A Writer

Others:

www.SearchPlacementPros.com Search Placement Pros will work to get your site to the top of search engine results.

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3 Comments

bbrian017
March 8, 2009 at 3:01 am | Permalink | Reply

Amazing list of resources you have compiled.

Thanks for taking the time to present the list to us.

Can you add Blog Engage?

Cheers,

Brain
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Vote for this article at blogengage.com
March 8, 2009 at 3:04 am | Permalink

List of writing resources…

I was over at writingconsultation.com and seen the writing resource list that they put together and thought it was worth showing off and submitting. Have a look and Engage if you like it!…
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