The Writing Coach Podcast with Rebecca L. Weber

You use certain meta skills and habits in your writing life that you developed before you even considered freelancing—and you probably use some of your best freelancing skills in non-writing areas of…

Glossing over achieving goals, and the milestones along the way to those goals, doesn’t allow us to really recognize or appreciate all that we’re doing right as freelancers. Sure, there is intrinsic …

Once you tap into the power of presenting a story idea (or just about any other writing related project) in a way that connects the dots for the recipient about how it will be relevant/helpful to the…

Are your pitches in demand with editors?

Making sure the quality and clarity of how your pitch addresses the needs and perspectives of your publication’s readers is essential for connecting with assi…

What makes for an ideal writing space?

What supports your focus, the quality of your thinking, and getting words out of your brain and onto the screen or page? What’s conducive to you getting writing…

Over the next few months, I’m going to be periodically re-releasing some of the best and most popular episodes from the Writing Coach Podcast archives. If you’ve been a subscriber from day one, you’…

To support ourselves, it’s nice to have a reliable go-to selection of tools, apps, programs, books, and other stuff.

In today’s episode, I talk through a few of my own favorites, and why and how I us…

Time for another edition of Listener Q&A! Here are today’s questions:

+ I’m getting charged a lot of fees because I’m working with an international client. How can I avoid these?

+ Can I write about …

When an editor wants you to do a piece but leaves the deadline up to you, your initial reaction may be: Great. I’ve got work lined up and I don’t have to work on it yet. It can be quite liberating if…

Do you hate marketing because it always takes too long and never winds up in front of the right people? Today we’re challenging that with a quick makeover of that humble marketing workhorse, your ema…

This episode isn’t a breakdown of why followups should be a part of your routine. Scheduling followups is so quick, easy, cheap, and effective, that NOT doing them basically means turning your back o…

For many freelancers, when you get sick it becomes a question of finding hours or days when you’re able to push yourself to get things done vs. not getting paid, rather than taking actual time off.

T…

Who gets to decide if you’re accomplished or not?

Is there somebody actually keeping score?

Often one of the motivating reasons we set a goal is to feel accomplished. That can be a real challenge if …

Today’s episode continues where we left off last week, looking at the distinction between desire and commitment. You’ve decided to step out of the energy suck of both wanting and not wanting somethin…

This is the first of two episodes exploring the intersection of desire, commitment, and priorities.

Is there something in your writing life that you strongly desire but haven’t committed to yet?

Writ…

Join me on Tuesday, March 23, for a live masterclass on how to break into your dream publications. We’ll focus on proven strategies to get consistent, meaningful assignments that pay well.

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Freelancers often think of the editors who don’t want to assign them stories, and of readers who don’t want to read their stories and angles, when writing pitches.

I don’t mean the editors don’t want…

The work you're doing now will tend to lead to similar work moving forward. Similar pay, topics, structures, publications, clients, etc. All of these tend to replicate if you’re not intentionally mak…

No electricity. No internet. They’re not one in the same, but when they overlap they make for a powerful Venn diagram.

The extreme weather and increased pressures on infrastructure means we’re going …

Listen into some coaching I gave to a few alumni inside my small group coaching program, Freelance Writer Bootcamp, who have NOT been pitching their celebrity crush clients. You may be surprised to h…