The Catholic Writers Guild

About forty years ago, I worked at an institution for the mentally disabled. There were over 1,200 patients in the facility. Some had severe physical and mental impairments, others appeared nearly normal. Some patients spent most of their time on their ward or outside their building in the yard areas […]

Inside every freelance writer is an author eager to break out with a best-selling book. It may be a nonfiction work dealing with a topic you are on fire to proclaim. You have dreams of giving talks on the topic and signing copies of your book for rooms full of […]

I am scheduled to give a presentation on Freelance Writing at this week’s Catholic Writers Guild Live Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. I really am pleased to have this opportunity. Part of the presentation deals with why some people choose to be freelance writers. I want to address this topic from […]

Thomas Edison understood that failure is a great teacher. Each time an experiment failed to yield the desired result, he moved one step closer to success. I personally felt a huge accomplishment after I served as a cantor for the first time at my church. Before and during, I was […]

When a freelance writer answers a call for submission, frequently the level of payment is indicated in the posting. It may be a fixed rate per article or a fixed amount per word. In applying for these types of jobs, the freelancer’s main job is to get hired. But at […]

OK — I get it. I really do. You write because you’re a writer. Inside you there is a passion that has to be sated. As Catholic writers we see our writing as a vocation. Priests, nuns, and monks have vocations. Marriage, motherhood, and fatherhood are also vocations. These all […]

One perk to freelancing is that you can decide how busy you want to be. Now the reality is if you don’t work, you don’t get paid. Many freelancers have the problem of finding work, any work, that pays. The flip side of the coin is freelancers who have been […]

Writers, whether they are freelance magazine writers and bloggers or budding novelists, are always eager to learn something new that will propel their career to the next level. To that end they will scour the Internet for information, join forums, participate in chats, and travel to conferences. They will spend […]

How do you establish credit when no one will give you a credit card unless you have a credit history? How do you get a job if all the jobs require experience? The answer to both is — it’s hard. Some stores and credit card companies will issue a card […]

The CWG Seal of Approval Evaluation Process will be taking a HIATUS for the 1st Quarter of 2016. We will be using this time to implement new training modules. All our evaluators, old AND NEW, will receive the new training, but said training is being designed so that it can […]