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Five Reasons Blogging is Better than Freelancing

You don’t have to send out query letters

Would you rather be writing articles or query letters? The process of querying publishers can take months and there is no guarantee that it will lead to a sale. With blogging, you spend your time writing actual articles (or stories or poems). You don’t spend your time trying to convince other people to publish you.

You can write about whatever you want

The beauty of blogging is that you are your own publisher. You determine what you write about and then you go and write it. You don’t have to tailor your writing to a certain magazine’s style, space or content rules. You can write in your own voice and develop your own style.

You don’t have to answer to an editor

While an editor can add value to your work with good suggestions and revisions, just as often you can find yourself the victim of arbitrary cuts determined by either an incompetent editor’s ideas or the publication’s space limitations. These are not problems bloggers have to deal with. Bloggers have the freedom to determine the length and style of their work.

You get published faster

The beauty of blogging is that you determine your own publishing schedule. You can publish an article as soon as you finish it or push it back to whenever you want it to appear. The decision is yours. You’ll never get that kind of freedom as a freelancer. In many freelancing cases you have to wait as long as a year to see your work in print. The reverse works as well. If an article is taking you longer than you expected, you don’t have to worry about an editor or client calling to wonder what happened, you simply keep working on it until you get it right.

You can connect with your readers

When you write for traditional print publications or business clients, the best you can hope for is one or two sets of comments. In many cases, you will receive no feedback from your readers at all. With a blog, it is possible to develop long-term relationships with your readers. Not only will they comment on one article, in many cases they will come back again and again with their own ideas and opinions.