Friend and colleague Lori Murray is my guest blogger today, sharing a typical work day in her freelance writing life.
Because I’m often asked what I do all day (no pajamas for me), I thought it might be interesting and helpful to see how other writers, like Lori, spend their days.
As you’ll see, Lori is uber productive; perhaps that explains she’s a nationally published and highly sought after writer and speaker.
Although no two days are ever alike in my life as a freelance writer, what follows is fairly typical:
Morning:
- Start my work day at 8 a.m. by answering emails and setting daily priorities.
- Finish writing a feature article for a national magazine (my best writing always happens in the morning).
- Conduct a 15-minute phone interview to write a corporate profile for a client; transcribe my notes.
- Study background materials for a microsite and sell sheet I’ll be writing for a local agency.
Midday:
- One-hour workout at local gym and then lunch at my desk.
Afternoon:
- Edit some copy for a local agency (while eating lunch).
- Pick up my son from school; break for about a half hour.
- Answer emails.
- Start to write the microsite.
Evening: (I don’t work every evening, but some days I sneak in an hour or two, and this is what it looks like.)
- Send follow-up emails to a couple potential clients.
- Write a magazine query.
- Make final edits and proofread feature article I worked on earlier in the day.
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