From Learning the Trade to Staring at Walls: The Joy of Freelancing
I’ve been a freelance writer for fourteen years. My first client, the Christian charity Stewardship taught me all the basics of being a writer for hire (don’t go over the word count, ferret out the real story, get some good pull quotes and always deliver on time). A couple of years later, a former interviewee got in touch having formed his own charity, Church Growth Trust. I’ve been writing for them ever since, twice a year in their member benefit magazine Foundations, and I love it (and them). Over the years, I’ve written articles about ancient churches and those who formed Friends’ groups to look after them, have temporarily taken over the planning and delivery of Stewardship’s Lent campaign, written three blogs a month for a Christian guesthouse in London, researched and written blogs for a prestigious military members’ club in the capital and produced articles for Torch Trust. All this came from a fellow freelancer at Stewardship and I thank him for it. In 2...