So here’s what I’ve done: Touching base with clients and editors My days are shorter (so is my concentration), but I feel much better for taking back a tiny bit of control. I started actively writing and looking for work and it felt good. Then I tried only to check news sites once or twice a day. In the morning, I started listening to the ABC’s excellent (and short) daily podcast about Coronavirus to feel like I had an unbiased, up-to-date grip of the situation. So at the start of last week I turned off my social media. What we’re looking at now (and I know I don’t need to tell you this) is catastrophic for so many freelancers and sole traders. Like many of you, I’m used to uncertainty.Ī freelancer writer’s life is pretty much about having a high capacity for the unknown and holding your nerve and forging forward despite the uncertainty.īut (stupidly, I know) I assumed that the world around us would stay relatively stable. I was looking for a piece of news or research that said I should (or shouldn’t) panic, whether I should take my kids out of school, see my elderly parents or even bother trying to go to the supermarket for basic supplies. I’m not sure what I was looking for, but I suspect I was hoping for some kind of definite, a guarantee. I would sit down to work on a story and find myself flicking between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and news sites. Over the past few weeks I’ve been feeling really down and flat. What’s worked for me in the past few weeks Hopefully there’s something in this post that’s useful for you, wherever you are and whatever situation you find yourself in. What’s happening is totally unprecedented and I feel like we’re all just trying to get through. I’m not going to pretend to have the answers, because I don’t. So this post is a bit of a cobbled-together, lord-knows-what-we’re-doing post. I’ve also seen heaps of great resources pop up that can help freelance writers during this time. But after last week’s post, quite a few people got in touch to say they were interested in how I’ve managed (so far) to keep my freelancing business stable. I wasn’t going to write a post about how to get through this unprecedented period of instability that we’re currently experiencing (mostly because I’m not an expert and I have no idea how we’re going to get through it).
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