Patience When Looking For Work and Some New Job Leads Available

The Art Blog Romow has a nice post outlining all the steps one can take when starting out as a new freelance writer. It is ironically an almost exact plan for what I did when first starting out. It really hard to be patient as the blogger suggests when trying to get that first freelance job, but it feels really good when you win it-and even better when you get paid for it.

Speaking of writing gigs check out the 33 jobs posted on About Freelance Writing as of Memorial Day.

I also found a couple of new job sites specifically for freelancers:

www.simplyhired.com

www.thewritejobs.com

Good News and Bad News

I'll start with the good news first. I've now got lots of freetime to get back to this blog (yay!) because I'm now an *official* college graduate. Astericks because I'm not actually holding the diploma in my hands, as they've got a bit of a delay in the transcripts offices, which is really making me a little crazy. Bad news, I've just gotten two more rejection notices back from magazines today. Wouldn't say they are starting to pile up, yet...but two at once is a bit sad.

To make myself feel better I searched the web for other writers and their woes on getting rejected. I rather like distraction no. 99's 15 Side Effects of Rejection Letters, but for something with a light at the end of the tunnel I suggest Meg Cabot's My First Sale at DearAuthor.com and a whole slew of similar My First Sale Posts. I really hope I don't collect an entire US. Mail Bag of rejection letters like her though.