I get a lot of inquiries from freelance writers who are interested in working with me. I often do have enough work to subcontract some of it out, but I need more than just a good writer or editor who understands the nonprofit landscape. What I really need is a good writer or editor who gets nonprofits and who can also work in Dreamweaver, PageMaker and/or InDesign.
While I still do a lot of writing and editing in Word, many of my clients ask me to move the document along in the process and get it ready for online or print publication. If a good editor or proofreader has the design program that the document is in (or will be shortly), it is that much easier for me to work with them. I’d much prefer that the proofreader go ahead and correct any problems she catches on a webpage within the HTML file, rather than point them out to me on a hard copy, leaving me to type in the corrections.
Expand your skills and your software options and you will likely expand your writing/editing clientele.
