For those who don't know, I started my writing career as a freelance, and there are a few differences between being an Indianapolis freelance writer and being a novelist. One of the biggest is that everything I write as a freelancer is preordered and priced. Agents, editors and publishers don't send out a list of material they want with prices they are willing to pay.
Freelancer
- 99 percent acceptance rate
- It's all preordered
- It's all prepriced
- There's very little competition
- You become an expert in a lot of different industries
- You become an expert at researching
- You are very good at SEO and social media
- Writing exhausted is a way of life
- There is no such thing as writers block
- Brain fry is real
Novelist
- 97 to 300 percent rejection rate
- The agents, publishers ect did not ask for it
- Submitting blind
- Way more competition
- You don't get paid until you get a book deal
- You may never get a book deal
- Reading all those rejection letters is going to wear you out, regardless of how good your self-esteem is.
- You are going to get really good at determining which rejection letters are real and which ones were copy/paste bulk send