When you freelance, you not have to be a writer. Freelancers
can be programmers, web designers, artists, musicians, and yes, authors. Some
people even do freelance tutoring – although how you tutor a second grader
every day of the week from afar is beyond me. My specific category of
freelancing is “Writing, Editing, and Translation.”
Although some freelancers only write, only edit, or only
translate, I happen to do all three. I only translate from French into English;
however, I am considering translating Spanish to English as well. I could go
the other way, but I am not a native speaker and I know I would screw up the
grammar. I tend to do pretty much any form of editing, but I am currently only familiar with Harvard and APA styles. I am thinking about learning Chicago Style, but I am not there yet.
When it comes to writing, I try to stay away from things I am not good at – like writing
humor or press releases. I personally do not write blogs (as a freelancer), nor
do I do web content (the one job I had gave instructions that were very vague),
nor will I write erotica, product/book reviews, or anything that I feels
violates my code of ethics/morals/and the Bible. I have had two jobs that I
took, but then declined because of this. This includes translating websites
that sell forged diplomas. Who posts these jobs?!?
What I like to do varies from time to time, but that is the
nice thing about freelancing, you can change what you are doing or what type of
work you are doing whenever a new job is posted.
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