Entry-Level Freelance Writing Gigs?

Post date: 2019-06-17 05:49:49

I need to take a baby step into kickstarting a writing career. Help me find easy cheeseball things to start on and get my feet wet again.

I had to downshift all my writing into hobby/backburner status while coping with a lengthy period of chronic un/under employment, especially when the un/underemployment burned me out altogether. But a growing dissatisfaction with my "day job", coupled with being very close to being debt-free, has got me thinking of how I could change my career up soon. And my roommate deciding to make the leap and move to L.A. in search of screenwriting work has made me think "....writing. Right."

So I want to ease back into it. I have some experience with online content and paid content - some articles for Atlas Obscura (which you can find) and some articles for a theater company in Scranton - but they're all a bit old. I'd like to get some more recent experience under my belt. But also I still have a day job I need to be functional at, so I want to go a little low-stress on this; not quite as brainless as stuff for a content farm, but close.

Is there some kind of place where I can find jobs to bid on, quick little just-a-couple-paragraph one-off articles or blurbs for small fundraising brochures, or whatever, for me to just grab here and there and crank out so I can get back into a practice again, and also build a foundation to build on for bigger stuff? The day job also gives me the luxury of not having to fret about how much they pay, but I would like paid work.

Ideally I'm thinking something that's a combination of, like, Fiverr and Linkedin. But definitely entry level/simple/beginner. For now. There are a lot of places where I can find work to pitch that I've already written, but nothing that's a job board for "I have a thing I need someone to write."

I don't have any experience in technical or medical writing, alas. My writing is more general, with a bit of an emphasis on movies and travel.

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