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WOW! Women On Writing
Classes & Workshops
Spotlight: The Business Side of Freelance Writing
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Writers!
If you're anything like me, you love to write. But if you want to be a successful freelance writer it's not enough to love writing alone. You have to embrace the business side of freelancing to build a thriving career. I know it's tough for us creative types, but we have the perfect mentor to show you the ropes!
Allena Tapia is a full time freelance writer and editor with over seven years of publishing experience. She founded GardenWall Publications LLC, a successful freelance writing, editing, and translation company. An enthusiastic and personable instructor, Allena enjoys helping writers as the guide for the New York Times' About.com Freelance Writing network, as well as teaching seminars in blogging, writing for magazines, and small business at Lansing Community College.
Allena Tapia's brand new class, The Business Side of Freelance Writing, starts this Monday, May 20, 2013. If you'd like to take your writing career one step further, we still have spots available! Learn how to professionalize your writing career through targeted marketing, establish yourself as a business entity, keep immaculate records, pay taxes the right way, and the principles of budgeting and project management.
In the article below, Allena shares five things that you can do to make and keep more money from your writing endeavors!
Also, don't miss several great classes that start soon, including Journey Through Life's Losses (June 3), How to Get the Right Literary Agent for Your Manuscript (June 3), Travel Writing: From Journaling Outside the Box to Articles that Sell (June 7), and Flash Fiction Workshop (June 12). Our full list of classes are below.
Happy writing!
Marcia & Angela
Marcia & Angela
Classroom Managers
WOW! Classes & Workshops
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Writers: If You're Not  Doing These 5 Things, You're Losing Money
By Allena Tapia
Writing isn't just an art--it's also a business. Since Uncle Sam and the IRS will consider any money you make from writing as taxable income, you should also take a serious point of view when it comes to managing it. Here are five things you can do to make and keep money from your writing endeavors.
Keep Impeccable Records
Writers must proactively track a number of different variables, such as time use, expenses, and income. These numbers can help you determine if your time is used wisely, if your work/word output is productive, and if your writing efforts are paying off. With these records, you will be able to more accurately price potential projects and invoice clients the full amount you're due. Such stringent accounting will also help when it comes to tax time.
Dedicate a Work Space to Writing
Because the IRS will be diligent about collecting a cut of your writing income, you've got to be diligent about nabbing write offs that will reduce that tax load. Put some effort into creating a dedicated office/writing space in order to reap the benefit of the associated home office tax write off, which can be a significant savings.
Outsourcing Appropriate Work
You are a writer. This means that you can't concurrently be an accountant, or a virtual assistant, or an editor, or a transcriptionist. If your forte is writing, and you generate income by writing, consider the possibility that you may actually save yourself money by hiring others to complete these kinds of tasks. This often comes down to deciding if the task that takes you one hour is going to net or lose you money. For example, if you can outsource an hour of work to a transcriptionist for $20, and spend that same hour instead making $50, then you've netted $30 that you would have lost, had you done the transcription yourself. ***
Treating your writing as the serious undertaking it is will not only help you meet your goals, but it will also help you to put some serious cash in your bank account--and keep it there!
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The Business Side of Freelance Writing
Instructor: Allena Tapia
Workshop Length: 6 Weeks
Price: $175
Start Date: May 20, 2013
Limit 10 Students
Course Description: For those who have already delved into the wide world of freelance writing for pay, this class will take your writing career one step further. Beginning and intermediate writers who have some freelancing experience will learn to professionalize their writing career through targeted marketing, establishing themselves as a business entity, keeping immaculate records, paying taxes, and learning principles of budgeting and project management.
This course includes:
- Weekly lesson material via e-mail and YouTube video and brief homework assignments with personalized, targeted feedback.
- Open virtual communication with the instructor for the span of the course.
- Two Optional Q & A session via Google Hangout (web video that allows face-to-face interaction in real time) every other week (scheduled by participant majority "best time"). Q & A session will be recorded for those who do not wish to participate.
Visit Allena's Listing for a complete listing of what you'll be learning week by week. 
About the Instructor: Allena Tapia is a full time freelance writer and editor with over 7 years of publishing experience. In addition to writing, editing and translation, she teaches part time through a local community college community education program. Her students there have described her teaching style as engaging, informal, approachable and friendly.
Allena has written for Huffington Post, Latino Leaders, Hispanic Business, Green Building and Design, and MediaBistro. She's held contracts with The New York Times, Gale Cengage and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. |
Upcoming Classes & Workshops
All the classes operate online--whether through email, website, chat room, or group listserv, depending on the instructor's preferences--so you do not need to be present at any particular time (unless a phone chat is scheduled and arranged with your instructor). You can work at your own pace in the comfort of your own home. If you have any questions, please reply to this email or email us at: classroom@wow-womenonwriting.com Enjoy!
Starts Every Friday (Self-Study Course) by Deana Riddle:
Independent Publishing: How to Start Your Own Self-Publishing Business | $99 or $150 with 1 Hour Phone Consultation
Starts the First Tuesday of Every Month: (Next class: June 4)
Introduction to the Craft of Screenwriting | 6 Weeks | $150 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Christina Hamlett
Introduction to Playwriting | 6 Weeks | $175 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Christina Hamlett
How to Write a TV Pilot | 4 Weeks | $150 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Christina Hamlett
Starts the Third Friday of Every Month: (Next class: June 21)
Get Paid to Write! Become a Freelance Writer | 8 Weeks | $150 | Limit: 15 Students | Instructor: Nicky LaMarco
Published in 90 Days | 12 Weeks | $299 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Deana Riddle
May 20, 2013
June 7, 2013 Travel Writing: From Journaling Outside the Box to Articles that Sell NEW!| 4 Weeks | $150 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Melanie Faith
June 17, 2013
Creative Writing, Creative Cash NEW! | 6 Weeks | $175 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Allena Tapia
July 1, 2013
No Matter How Busy You Are, You Can Still Find Time to Write! | 4 Weeks | $50 (SALE! Normally $125) | Limit: 25 Students | Instructor: Kelly L. Stone
Creating and Building Your Writer-Author Online Presence | 6 Weeks | $125 (SALE! Normally $150) | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Karen Cioffi
July 6, 2013
How to Write Children's Picture Books and Get Published | 6 Weeks | $175 | Limit: 15 Students | Instructor: Lynne Garner
5 Picture Books in 5 Weeks (Advanced Course) | 5 Weeks | $175 | Limit: 15 Students | Instructor: Lynne Garner
How to Write a Hobby-Based How-to Book | 5 Weeks | $175 | Limit: 15 Students | Instructor: Lynne Garner
July 8, 2013
Writing Children's and Teen's Short Fiction for Magazines and E-Zines | 4 Weeks | $95 | Limit: 20 Students | Instructor: Margo L. Dill
August 2, 2013
Write Funny! How to Add Humor to Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Screenplays, Flashes, and More! NEW! | 5 Weeks | $175 | Limit: 10 Students | Instructor: Melanie Faith
August 5, 2013
Empower Your Muse, Empower Your Writing Self | 4 Weeks | $50 ( SALE! Normally $125) | Limit: 25 Students | Instructor: Kelly L. Stone | Instructor: Annette Fix August 8, 2013Writing for Children: How to Get Started and Take a Hold of Your Career | 4 Weeks | $95 | Limit: 20 Students | Instructor: Margo L. Dill August 20, 2013Writing a Children's or Young Adult Novel | 4 Weeks | $100 | Limit: 20 Students | Instructor: Margo L. Dill
Click here to see all of our upcoming workshops
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