✍️ Featured Job: Call for Personal Essay Pitches: “The Moment I Knew I Had to Make Writing My Job”
Call for pitches: $500 for a 500-word essay about the moment you knew you had to embark on your writing journey.
📣 Call for Pitches: “The Moment I Knew I Had to Make Writing My Job”
💰 $1/word | 500 words | Published on the GuestStack column here at ✍️ Make Writing Your Job
You know the moment.
Maybe it was staring down your 86th rejected job application.
Maybe it was your boss calling you “chatty” in a Zoom performance review.
Maybe it was after your first paid piece — $200 to write about composting toilets, and suddenly? You believed.
We’re looking for personal essays about that electric, uncomfortable, defiant, or joyful moment when you realized:
I’m not doing this anymore. I’m going to be a writer.
Whether you’ve built a six-figure freelance business or are still chasing your first byline, we want the real story of how you crossed the threshold. Not the polished version — the messy, mundane, magnificent truth.
What we want:
Pitches for personal essays (that upon selection, the chosen writer will write a 500-word essay) with voice, insight, and tension
Stories rooted in your writing or freelancing life
A-ha moments that feel universal and yet intensely personal (specific details > vague platitudes)
Pieces that teach us something, not just tell us something
What we pay:
💸 $500 flat ($1/word for 500 words)
✨ PLUS: Publication to an audience of 9,000+ subscribers here on ✍️ Make Writing Your Job.
✍️ Submit your pitch at the link below:
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