Welcome to freelancewritingtips.com

ARE you in search of tips, inspiration or advice for your freelance writing career?

Then we hope freelancewritingtips.com gives you some food for thought. This site is was started in March 2007 as a joint project between Craig McGinty and Linda Jones.

Craig is a Manchester-based blogger and freelance journalist. His expanding portfolio of sites includes This French Life, and This Perth Life.

He is a former reporter on the award-winning Stockport Express and editor of the Lancashire Evening Telegraph's website thisislancashire which enjoyed more than two million page impressions a month.

Linda is an agency director and as a freelance journalist has regularly contributed to various publications, including most national daily papers, Press Gazette and women's weeklies.

She is also a former news editor at the Worcester Evening News and the Wolverhampton Express & Star and is now the director of features and PR agency Passionate Media.

Publications Linda has edited include the St Petersburg Press (now the St Petersburg Times,) in Russia's second city, the Midlands monthly Business Report and Tamba's quarterly magazine Twins, Triplets & More.

Linda is a media trainer with the:101 and the author of the oh-so-modestly-named The Greatest Freelance Writing Tips in the World, which was published in October 2007.

Craig and Linda have seen a lot of changes in the media industry, but a need from editors for fresh ideas and reliable, accurate and legally sound copy remains the same.

Thanks for dropping by. Happy reading - and writing!

Comments

[Arpi Shively]

Great site, god knows we need solid information and inspiration every day, like a shot of morning coffee, the better to hustle editors. Especially when you live in a small mountain town in southern Spain. You make me feel like a harassed Londoner again - that's a compliment.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

Arpi Shively

[Linda]

Thank you so much for being the first to say some nice things! I am now dreaming of much finer things having seen your site. It looks wonderful. If you ever fancy swapping places just let me know!

Best wishes
Linda

[keda]

ooh linda what a lovely idea!

i'll have to have a dig around and bookmark this. having just started writing freelance for time out this last year and loving the experience i could really do with some pointers on how to do more!

wonderful.
thank you :)

[Linda]

Thanks Keda. You know I love your writing.

[Evangelist Vita M. King]

Good morning,I just don't understand it (WOMEN)did you thank GOD when you got up this morning? DO you not know that you are a BEAUTIFUL PERSON,do you need for God to rain down ROCKS on top of your head to know that YOU look GREAT! NOT whos beside you,in front of you behind you."YOU" look GOOD.I have been saying this since I was a teenager,I am 44years old,div. no kids,no grandkids,don't want any kids,wanting on my new husband.Have a YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL DAY,"JUST YOU" Evangelist,and so on,Vita M. King

[cityslicker]

Great site.
Thanks for something informative and accessible -too often they are such foreign bedfellows!

[Linda]

Thank you for your kind words - I do hope we can get straight to the point.

[Wrighty]

I'm glad to have found this site.

It's good to read some well-written material that has been produced by someone actually making a living from writing or journalism (and blogging too? where do you guys get the time?) rather than trying to follow more academic missives.

[InspiredWritingResearch]

Great site - collecting opinions on the new Copyscape Widget. Any use? Is it worth bothering adding to our articles/reviews? Amazon have rights to our stuff anyway, but what about others?
Thanks

[Peter Knight]

Wondrous are the ways of the Internet! From My Writers Circle ('Quixote'), to nick Dawes to John Craggs (Gyppo) ... to you. Thank you for an excellent site. A year late, but will explore it thoroughly (Adverb).

Peter

[Linda]

Peter - thank you! You are very welcome.

[David Whitley]

Not sure how I haven't come across this site before, but there are some interesting pieces on here. Keep up the good work - I'll keep dropping in from time to time.