by Hollie Sherrington | Sep 30, 2021 | Becoming a Freelance Copywriter
When I first stumbled into freelance copywriting, I had no idea what I was doing. I knew I wanted to be a writer, but had no idea how to go about it. I was 26 and a secondary school dropout. I’d just quit the latest in a short line of part-time jobs that I wasn’t much...
by Hollie Sherrington | Sep 23, 2021 | Content Mills, Copywriting Tips
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work for a content mill? Well, I’m going to share something I found while tidying up my computer files. It’s a short piece that I wrote when I was working for one particular content mill, which shall remain nameless. It was...
by Hollie Sherrington | Sep 17, 2021 | Copywriting Tips, Creative Writing, Flash Fiction
Shortly after joining Twitter at the beginning of 2018, I discovered the Twitter writing community and the delightful and curious world of flash fiction and Very Short Stories. Very Short Stories is a daily writing exercise open to writers of any genre. Each day, the...
by Hollie Sherrington | Sep 10, 2021 | Social Media
Until January of 2018, I wasn’t a fan of social media. As an introverted writer, I couldn’t think of anything worse than talking to a bunch of strangers about what I’d had for lunch that day. I’d joined LinkedIn a few years before and found that was about as far into...
by Hollie Sherrington | Sep 3, 2021 | Hiring a copywriter
Being a freelance copywriter is a strange profession, surrounded in mystery and misconceptions. So, it’s no surprise that many people don’t know what to expect when hiring one. So What Does a Freelance Copywriter Do? Well, to put it simply — we write words that...
