ONE LEG at a TIME
If we lived in a much more interesting universe where everyone had House Words like in Game of Thrones,1 mine would very likely be “Man plans, God laughs.” A perfect example of this is the plan I came up with a few years ago to launch my freelance writing career.
At the time, I was working a day job. I was already sitting in a room, alone, tapping a keyboard all day long while various cats sat on me2 —I was already living the freelance life, just without the checks. So I devised a careful plan: I would take on a few small jobs on the side to get my sea legs, then slowly expand at a comfortable pace until I was matching my day job income with freelance earnings.3 Then I’d quit in glorious fashion, possibly with an expensive, professionally produced YouTube video.
And then, my day job and I got a divorce. After having a small nervous breakdown, I decided to skip a few dozen steps of the master plan and launch my freelance writing career early. While this is not probably how I’d advise anyone to start their adventure in freelance writing, it was money writing than I ever did at the day job. And as I say in regard to almost any achievement, if can pull it off, so can you. Here’s how.
