Your mental health can suffer if you are too anxious and experience too much work stress for too long.
Working with PhD students: Right, or wrong?
As it turns out, many of us have been approached by PhD students of various academic levels who have had no shame in asking us to write their essays and papers.
Online networking for medical writers
I can reveal, without a doubt, that I wouldn’t be where I am right now if it weren’t for networking.
8 reasons why medical writers need both blogs and websites
In today’s world, having your own web presence is essential. If you do not have online presence these days, you might as well be invisible.
Do you need a medical degree to be a health writer?
Confession: I’m a medical writer without a medical degree.
Want to be a freelance medical writer? Read this first
Career pathways and strategies are different for everyone, as we all have unique aims, objectives, needs and desires.
10 freelancing lessons the FIFA World Cup can teach you
Attempting to find worthwhile similarities between freelancing and FIFA’s social media record-shattering tournament seems like a bit of a stretch, right?
Learning to handle writing criticism
Not everyone who criticises what we write is envious. And not everyone who gives feedback is criticising your writing.
Do you have social media and work-related FOMO?
FOMO is the ‘fear of missing out’ and is commonly associated with our compulsive need to check and re-check social media and online media. Basically, we seek to stay informed at all times.
Is cheap outsourcing a career threat for medical writers?
Is cheap medical writing outsourcing a threat to your career, and do cheapered writers deliver the same quality content as professionals?
The health writing business balancing act
Since I’ve been running a small health writing business I’ve found I needed to become a Jack of all trades, a master at weaving multiple competing activities into a seamless whole.
Why writers need to maintain their mental health
Here are 3 reasons WHY you need to make your mental health a priority if you are going to survive as a writer.
How to set your freelance rates – a guide
Setting freelance rates. Quoting on projects. Charging for freelance work for writing assignments. These are the toughest aspects of running a freelance medical writing business.
Road blocks to freelance business growth
Have you ever asked yourself how you see your medical writing business growing over the next 2, 5 and 10 years?
Running a writing business from home
There are many decisions to be made and it can be hard to be sure which is the right way to go. But keeping faith with yourself, boosts your self-confidence and can help keep your attitude positive.