These are the low points in freelancing - when the checks don't come in, and the freelancer begins to question their decision to take off on their own. After months and months of residing behind your computer screen, querying and querying, writing and rewriting, you have come to realise it's that time of year. You can feel it in your brain and throughout your veins, a holiday is rightfully due. You're ready to take a break and head somewhere south. If you think a weekend on the warm sandy shores of Biarritz will do you some good, you couldn't be more right.
Vacation time is seen as down time with most and work is usually the furthest thing from thought.
However, as a writer, especially a freelance writer, a holiday is the perfect thing to get that blundering inspiration back in order. If you learn the little tricks of the trade, like how your holiday can actually help your writing career, your creative fuse will burn well into next year. With downsizing in full swing, employers and employees are all looking for alternative ways to make a living. Many freelancers who have seen their dot com clients disappear are discovering temporary work as a way to make ends meet, and still carve out time to freelance. Today, that number continues to grow.