A born and raised Ohioan with a cross-country road trip on her bucket list. — Hi Globetrotters. My name is… Megan Stewart, aka Meg Stewart, although that nickname never even surfaced until my early thirties. As an employment case manager for homeless veterans, I agreed to go by Meg since there was another case manager, Meghan on staff. Pretty soon, the vets started calling me…

My answer to the most common question I hear from freelance writers. — The one thing to understand before you start to pitch freelance writing jobs is that editors who are reading your freelance pitch are busy. It’s the same for CEOs, website owners, and solopreneurs. Their schedules leave them very little time to peruse their email inbox for article ideas. If you…

Even if you think you have no writing experience. — If you can remember what it was like to get your first job in high school or maybe in college, every interviewer asked about your previous experience. But when you’re looking for your first job, how can you talk about your experience? …

Submitting to Medium publications & beyond. — If you’ve ever thought about submitting your writing to a publication, contest, or magazine, you may have wondered exactly how it works. When I first started sending that first freelance pitch was the scariest thing I had to overcome. Perhaps you’ve done some research, read some previous blog posts or…

Use these southern regional and local markets to build your portfolio! — Finding just the right publication to write for can be a little tricky and quite time consuming if you aren’t sure where to begin. You may feel like you aren’t ready or like your writing isn’t good enough. Trust me, the right publication for you to pitch is out there…

I’m packing up anything I’m not using daily this week in preparation for the move in mid-September. I’m amazed at the things I’ve collected over the years that I don’t really need. I had an entire dumpster’s worth of stuff in my house that has accumulated over the years. What…

Freelance writers, you’ll want to check out these markets that pay writers! — Hey Ladder Family, I hope the month of August is treating you well thus far. As many of us gear up for the start of the new school year, now is a great time to revisit your annual freelance income goal and take a look at your Fall schedule to…

Get paid for your writing in 2022! — One of the biggest struggles for me as a new freelance writer was knowing which publications, websites, or companies were looking for writers AND willing to pay them. It was in fact that struggle to find markets that pay writers that helped to inspire what has now become Freelance Ladder. …

And get paid something to boot! — Starting out as a new freelancer writer can seem a bit like a what comes first, the chicken or the egg scenario. You don’t have experience so you can’t land a writing gig and without getting writing gigs, you can’t gain experience. …