Canada’s meeting place for freelance writers and creators

Established 2010

[caption id="attachment_2185" align="alignnone" width="580" caption="Screen shot from Freelancethanks.com."][/caption]Working independently has its benefits, but consistently receiving encouragement and thanks is not one of them. Editors don't always take—or have—the time to give positive feedback and, when dealing with freelancers, some…
This series of posts by the Born Freelancer will share personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments.I'm told that blogging is dead in this era of tweets and retweets. I must respectfully disagree. It may be long dead among a certain…
This week on the Toronto Freelance Editors and Writers email list, a member asked the group for advice on a tricky situation. It's a familiar one to most freelance writers and many editors who work with both freelance and staff writers.This writer had pitched a profile of a young entrepreneur to a weekly community newspaper and the editor told her…
On Labour Day, Freelancers Union founder Sara Horowitz wrote an article to announce and set the stage for a series for the Atlantic on the "freelance surge," what she calls "the industrial revolution of our time." She writes: "We haven't seen a shift in the workforce this significant in almost 100 years when we transitioned from an agricultural to…
When Kai Nagata quit his job at CTV back in July, reaction from his fellow journalists was mixed. Some praised his bravery in leaving what seemed to be a good and stable media job to strike out on his own, while others were put off by his manifesto, calling him naive or an attention seeker. Nagata wrote a follow-up post one day later, in which he…
This series of posts by The Born Freelancer will share personal experiences and thoughts on issues relevant to freelancers. Have something to add to the conversation? Your input is welcome in the comments.I discovered a new 21st century word this year. FOMO. Go look it up. It means the Fear of Missing Out. What freelancer doesn't occasionally…

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