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As freelance writers, we all know that there are advantages and disadvantages to being self employed. Some of the best things are obvious:

Setting your own schedule
No boss breathing down your neck
Working on projects you like
Working when and how you are most productive

Of course, there are disadvantages, too:

Setting your own schedule
No boss breathing down [...]

Working as freelancers full-time has never been a goal of ours here at the Berry-Brewer Agency. Lorna and I love our company, but we have young families (and personal lives…sort of) that interfere with a rigorous 9 to 5 schedule. We love the idea of having enough freedom to attend to our lives while still [...]

In our almost two years of freelancing as the Berry-Brewer Freelance Agency, neither Lorna nor I ever really thought much about taking bona fide vacations. Sure, we’ve had our moments: Lorna had a baby and stepped away from the business for a few months; I took a month off to write a novel; we both [...]

Freelance Parent serves a couple of purposes. For one thing, it offers a glimpse into how, exactly, we have built a successful freelance business from the ground up. We started the blog exactly one month after we started the business, so those who are interested are able to track exactly how we went from ground [...]

So, um, it’s been awhile, hasn’t it, Blog? Honestly, it’s not you, it’s us. We’ve had a lot going on. Like dealing with a creep of a client who is way overdue on more than $3,500. Yeah, that whole process has taken a lot of the wind out of our sails.
I think it’s only fair [...]

Now that Lorna and I are working in close proximity to one another, we’re doing a bit more chatting about the work and a little less actual doing of the work. We knew this would be an issue, primarily because it’s difficult not to talk when someone you like is sitting a mere three feet [...]

Over the past few weeks, Lorna has spent some time gushing about the gloriousness that is our new office. As well she should. It’s cute, it’s well-situated, and I cannot even begin to tell you how productive I am without my child or my house underfoot.
However, as with most things, not everything about having an [...]

One of my favorite books about writing is Betsy Lerner’s The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers. (My favorite is Stephen King’s On Writing, not that you asked.) Anyway, one of the reasons I like the book so well is because the author, who is an editor, totally “gets” how [...]

The issue of how quickly to offer a turnaround time for projects is one that we haven’t touched here on Freelance Parent yet. I’m not exactly sure why, but I’m assuming it has something to do with the fact that it hasn’t been a problem until quite recently.
But it’s becoming one now.
In the beginning, we [...]

My daughter recently turned three. And I have a confession to make. Until last week, she still used a binky to go to sleep each night.
Feel free to chastise accordingly (goodness knows I’ve done it), but no matter how many times I tried to extricate the thing from the vice of her determination, I caved. [...]