Where to Find Freelance Writing Jobs for Beginners

Struggling to find clients as a freelance writer? This might help.

Leo Serafico
4 min readOct 21, 2019
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

The culprit of all my writing endeavors was my late professor back in the university.

I was just some bummy kid who was okay with getting average grades and goes to class just to hang out with friends.

I took up International Relations with a major in Diplomacy.

Shocker, right?

We were always given opinionated essays regarding politics, history, economics and the likes, and out of the blue that professor asked me if I could write for our department’s newspaper.

I said ‘no’ a couple of times until he cracked me. He often complimented my writings and said that I should be a writer; and that’s where this whole writing endeavor was ignited.

Of course, I was a total noob and didn’t know where to start but I figure I should get writing jobs to make it official in my brain.

Here’s how I landed my first ever writing client:

I watched and read day and night about freelance writing and by maybe the second or third day, I decided I have enough information to go through finding my first ever client.

Now that I have almost 4 years of freelance writing experience, I want to share with other writers a few places where they can get writing clients.

Ways to Find Freelance Writing Clients:

ProBlogger Job Boards

Here’s where I landed my first two writing jobs a few years back. It’s one of the most popular job boards out there for freelancers and they advertise new jobs almost everyday.

The majority are in the marketing and business writing niches, but my first job was to write about dogs, which was amazing. The pay for most jobs there is good.

Write Jobs

They’ve started back in 2010 and according to their site, Write Jobs has been providing remote/freelance job leads and other paying opportunities for writers. It is part of Resource for Writers, the biggest community of writers worldwide.

To be transparent: I have never had a job with this site, a friend of mine recommended this to me. If you’ve got a journalism background, you might fare well on Write Jobs. A lot of the jobs posted here are for top-tier magazines.

Indeed

This site, you may have heard of. I landed a freelance writing project here that lasted for three months earlier this year.

This job board aggregates freelancing writing jobs from all over the world depending on the keyword you use to search. You can narrow down searches to your city or country and there are plenty of well-paying gigs to be found.

Freelance Writing Gigs

This is one of the few websites I open a couple of times a month or whenever I’m looking for writing gigs. I’ve been using this ever since I started freelance writing.

This blog-cum-job-board publishes a new post every day filled with writing jobs pulled from all over the web. Pay varies drastically depending on what site the ad was originally posted on, but there are some gems.

Facebook Freelancing Groups

There are plenty of groups on Facebook catering to freelancers. You can just generally search ‘freelance writing groups’ or narrow it down to your surrounding areas, who knows, chances are there’s one near you.

You can join groups within your niche. For example, if you write for tech companies, join groups filled with tech company owners (a simple Google search will reveal all). When there, you can network with your ideal clients and share your value.

Or you can join groups filled with freelancers. Often, a designer will need a writer to work with, or someone will need an extra pair of hands for a project.

LinkedIn

Another disclaimer: I suck at LinkedIn but I heard so many good feedback about landing writing gigs there that I though I’d include it and leave it up to you.

There are LinkedIn Groups that are kind of more professional versions of Facebook groups.

Again, you can either join groups that align with your niche (so groups for app developers if you write about apps, for example), or groups filled with other freelancers who you can collaborate and network with.

You can also search for jobs on LinkedIn but I’ve been told they are mainly geared towards full-time gigs, but there are often a few decent freelancing jobs on there too.

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I’ve been blessed to have the job I actually want and I hope this article helps people who share the same passion for writing as I do.

If you’re new to freelance writing, I suggest to take a look at this:

I recently just became a full-time freelance writer after finally having enough money saved and having the guts to file in that resignation letter. If you’re thinking of doing the same, maybe this will help:

There’s a quote that is always stuck in my head whenever the pessimist in me seeps through the cracks:

“If you wish to be a writer, write. The only way you’ll fail is if you stop writing.”

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