Don't get ripped off on Upwork. It's tough in the beginning, I would know. I started from scratch myself. I went on and off for about 9 months and still haven't earned enough to replace a full-time income. Yet, since then I've fully justified my latest pay rate, which doubled since then—and yes, I have…
4 Tips on Ghostwriting Fiction: My First Science Fiction LitRPG
I've been writing commercially for about nine months now. Just recently, I finished a science fiction LitRPG, the first time that I was ghostwriting fiction. I find all my work exclusively through Upwork, where I see that there are lots of Kindlepreneurs—entrepreneurs who are looking to satisfy niche demands through careful research of the Kindle…
To Be Or Not To Be (Yourself)
It is a truth universally agreed on Rotten Tomatoes that The Emoji Movie hot trash that's not to be touched with a ten-foot pole. Yet, I rated it quite highly. Perhaps I did so because I was in a vulnerable part of my life. As my brother's high school English professor famously said, all art…
Sarah Lawrence College MFA Creative Writing Open House: A Rekindling of My Writing Spirit
Recently, I had the pleasure of going to Sarah Lawrence College to attend their MFA Creative Writing open house. Located in the beautifully wooded town of Bronxeville, the event rekindled my writing spirit.The open house reception took place in Slonim House, a cozy cabin which like other buildings on campus is made in the Tudor…
Why Freelance Writing Sucks: My Experience on Upwork
In April of this year, I dived full on into trying to start a freelance writing career on Upwork. After five months, here's what I learned. In my view, being a freelance writer on Upwork is enormously inefficient when it comes to time and money, at least for beginners like myself. I think that in…
