It’s been a few months since you took the plunge and became a freelance blogger, and the water is just fine. Better than fine, in fact.

Your new life as a freelance blogger is everything you hoped it would be. Except you still can’t shake the feeling that there’s something missing.

You’ve made a great start. You’ve taken on a couple of jobs and been paid… maybe not as much as you’d like but at least you’ve started something good.

But you feel like you have to put in a lot of effort just to get work. Maybe that means lots of unanswered pitches, leaning on existing connections or trawling social media looking for jobs.

Whatever the case, you’re spending more time than you’d like looking for your next gig. Time you’d rather be spending writing blog posts… because that’s why you started this whole thing, after all.

If all that sounds familiar, then this post is for you. I’ll tell you the 6 things I wish I’d paid closer attention to before and during my first freelancing slump. 

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