Somewhere in the world right now, a freelance writer is staring at an email that says “can you write something about our software? Approx 800 words, quite informative, let us know if you have questions thanks” and making a face.…

How many of you have been presented with a brief containing a keyword phrase so syntactically broken it reads like it was written by someone falling down a flight of stairs? “Best affordable plumber London emergency no call-out fee.” You…

Let me tell you about a client conversation that made me need a brief lie-down. A few weeks ago, a freelance client came to me with a mission. Bright-eyed, motivated, and armed with what he believed was a genuinely brilliant…

Every now and then a project lands that’s genuinely satisfying to work on. No legacy content to untangle, no archive of posts written by a previous agency that rhymed “innovative” with “transformative” in every other paragraph. Just a blank slate,…

There’s a version of this post where I dramatically announce that AI is coming for editorial jobs and you should be panicking into your morning coffee. I’m not writing that post. There’s also a version where I reassure you that…

Let’s be honest. You’ve been putting this off. You’ve got a half-finished blog post from February, a content calendar that was aspirational rather than functional and a growing suspicion that “we’ll handle content in-house” was something you said with more…

Let me tell you about a thing I used to do. I’d finish a blog post, read it back, and think: “This is good. This is actually good.” Then I’d count the words, see 1,100 staring back at me, and…

Right now, finding writing and editing work is a bit like applying for a job at a restaurant where they’ve replaced half the kitchen with a microwave, aren’t sure they need a head chef anymore and will interview you four…