Freelance writing is incredibly accessible.

Every single week, I get testimonials and reports from writers who are hitting significant milestones in their journeys, enjoying successful careers, and building profitable businesses.

That said, not everyone is succeeding in this space. Part of the accessibility means there are a lot of people who give freelance writing a try… and fail.

Over the years, I’ve observed that five things in particular seem to derail freelance writers more than almost anything else.

In today’s episode of Write Bites, I’ll take you through these five common pitfalls and show you exactly how to avoid them on your journey.

This episode of Write Bites is sponsored by Copy.AI, a toolkit that helps writers, marketers, and freelancers harness the power of GPT-3 to quickly create first draft copy for their businesses and clients. Click here to try Copy.AI free for 30 days.

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What are the things that are most likely to prevent you from succeeding as a freelance writer?

In today’s episode, I’m going to break down the five things that I most commonly see derail freelance writers…

And we’re going to be explaining how to prevent those things from derailing you on your journey.

Today’s episode is sponsored by CopyAI, a toolkit that helps writers and marketers and freelancers skip writer’s block and quickly create first draft copy for themselves and their clients.

If you’d like to get a free 30 day trial head on over to copy.ai/jacob.

Freelance writing is incredibly accessible.

Every single week, I get testimonials and reports from other freelance writers that are hitting significant milestones in their journeys, enjoying successful careers, and building profitable businesses.

That said, not everyone is succeeding in this space.

Freelance writing is accessible. And that means that a lot of people come into this space and try their hand at freelance writing ultimately won’t end up succeeding.

Over the years, I’ve observed that five things in particular seem to derail freelance writers more than almost anything else.

#1: Negative Beliefs

The first one is to be honest, a little bit surprising.

So many freelance writers come into this field with the assumption that they can’t do something.

Sometimes it’s as broad as “I can’t succeed as a freelance writer” (which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy), but more frequently, it’s specific things.

For instance, when they look at people who they consider successful and they see things that those writers are doing, they think “Oh, I couldn’t do that”.

Maybe it’s that they noticed that a writer has a byline on Forbes or that so-and-so is working with a Fortune 500 client. Whatever the reason, they feel like they can’t compare.

The ironic thing about this is that there’s really no pre-qualifications for doing almost anything in the online space.

If you want to do something, achieve something, accomplish something in the writing space…

The biggest differentiator between people who have done it and people who haven’t is whether they’ve tried it.

When you see someone who has a byline on a big publication, 9 times out of 10, it’s just because they happen to send a good pitch at the right time.

If you were to send a good pitch at the right time right now with your current skillset, you could get that same byline.

Now, that said, maybe you give it a try. Maybe you send the pitch and it turns out you just don’t a...