Over at freelance-zone.com, Joe Wallace has written a very nice post about none other than me, WritingHermit. I checked out freelance-zone.com myself and it has lots of cool information, advice, and more. I love the resources section and the lifestyles section. This site can keep a writer busy for hours and is well worth checking out.
Today’s job leads:
1) http://www.cthreepo.com/writelinks.html — A great list of writer’s submission guidelines/markets for fiction writers. You have to click around a bit, but it’s worth it.
2) http://newpages.com/npguides/litmags.htm — Lots of literary journals can be found here.
3) http://www.freelance-writing-career.com/writing-jobs — Subscribe to this feed and get new job leads every day. Many are from bid sites, but there are some non-bid jobs worth hunting for.
4) http://www.americanwriters.com/ — This is not a job lead per se, but rather a list of writing-related podcasts. Lots of useful career-building information here.
5) http://www.dotorgjobs.com/ — This general job search site lists writing jobs.
6) http://www.dailytelecommuter.com/ — This cool blog posts daily job leads for telework jobs – including writing gigs.
7) http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/ — Sun Microsystems hires technical writers, and has offices around the world.
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February 20, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Alexander Kohl
Thanks a lot for adding our site. Judging by your comment you are not using bidding sites to find jobs?
What is the reason for that?
Alexander
February 21, 2008 at 1:04 am
writinghermit
I blogged about the subject here: http://writinghermit.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/freelance-bid-sites-%e2%80%93-why-you-want-to-stay-away/
Basically, while it is possible to find decent work on bid sites, I don’t think that they ultimately are beneficial to anyone. They encourage employers to look at the “lowest bidder.” The result is that writers are undervalued and employers get writers who write at $1 a page. I have spoken to clients who have found writers through bid sites and have found out the hard way what $1/page gets them. They have then had to go through the additional expense of hiring another writer to come up with decent writing. Also, most bidding sites have a rating system – each writer is ranked according to how well they do with employers only at that bidding site. A writer may have many years of experience writing for all sorts of clients but if they have just joined a new bidding site, they must start from scratch building up a reputation. To make matters worse, in the case of any disputes, these sites are heavily biased in favor of the employers, not the writers. If a client is not willing to pay, all they have to say is that they are not happy and in many cases the writer does not get paid. None of this is a very good deal, as far as I can see.
June 24, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Catherine L. Tully
Thanks for raising our profile! We love your site and will be back in often to check things out! Great content!
June 24, 2008 at 9:45 pm
writinghermit
Thanks, Catherine. I’m a big fan of http://freelance-zone.com/blog/ as well. I love all the useful links and all the information about writing tools and resources.