On Crawling Out of the Self-Sabotage Hole

Submitted to the DIY Writers Carnival.

Journalism is dying, they said. The freelancing market is over-crowded with quality reporters who lost their jobs to purges in the mainstream media, they said. It’s never been harder to make a living freelancing, they said.

“They” spouted nonstop negativity – and I ended up believing it.

Before I really branched out as a freelancer, I tried to shrug it off, tried not to take other people’s theories on board. I’d been a salaried journalist for eight years an...