The Freelance Writer’s Resume

Making a writing resume has been on my to-do list for months now, maybe even years. I’ve been putting it off because I thought it was too hard and would take too much time.

I’m used to creating chronological resumes, the ones that list out your work experience in order of dates. The problem is that format doesn’t work well with freelance writing. I didn’t know what format to use so I just didn’t do it.

I can’t count the number of ads I didn’t respond to because they asked for a resume. Pitiful reason to miss out on gigs, I know.

Today, I stopped putting it off and I actually made the resume…and you know what. It wasn’t nearly as hard as I was making it out to be. I Googled “freelance writer resume,” looked at a few examples, and used those to come up with mine. There were two in particular that I liked: Sharon L. Fullen’s and Tamar Love’s.

I’ll update this post with a link to my resume when I publish it, but for now here’s the format I followed:

Name

One paragraph blurb about me. My experience. Current projects.

Writing and Editing Experience

• Bulleted list of key experience, e.g. wrote web content, edited ebook, created newsletter

Freelance Clients

Links to the web pages of previous clients

Work History

One line summary of my past jobs

Education

Clips

And that’s that.

Have you created a writer’s resume? Post the link and let’s see it!