By Susan Johnston
If you work full-time as a freelance writer, it can be brutal to juggle paid assignments along with maintaining a personal blog.
If your blog isn't a money maker, it's easy to let a couple days - or weeks or months - slip by without adding new material. After all, why put the effort into something that's not paying the bills when you could spend time working on something that does?
But there are plenty of reasons to post regularly, especially if you have any desire to turn what started as a hobby into paid work.
That's where I was four years ago when I started blogging after a hiatus from writing to be a SAHM. Blogging was my way of getting up to speed on everything I'd missed. It paid off almost immediately. My blog, WordCount: Freelancing in the Digital Age,... More...