The WritingThoughts blog quietly turned seven years old last week. There was no cake. No balloons. No fanfare.
Yet for me, this blog started a significant phase of my freelance writing career. For years I had written for businesses in a variety of capacities, but I had not yet blogged for pay.
Since starting WritingThoughts, over 1,000 of my blog posts have appeared on over a dozen sites. Some posts I’ve written include my byline. Others are ghostwritten. It’s more than I ever imagined I’d write when I began accepting paid blogging assignments.
The important point is that I would never have been able to start a paid blogging career had I not experimented with blogging here first.
In this post, I’ll share four vital lessons that I’ve learned about paid blogging over the last seven years.
