So You Want to Write for Pay, but You Haven’t Been Paid for Writing Yet

Very good, very practical re-blog today :-)

Live to Write - Write to Live

When you first start out seeking to get paid for your writing you enter the Catch-22 of needing to prove you can write for pay in order to write for pay.

What do you do when you’re starting out, haven’t written for publication in years, or are switching industries and don’t have any relevant or current clips?

The answer is simple: Use whatever you have.

When I first started out, all I had was book reviews. So I used the...