Transparency in the Business of Writing for a Living Helps Everyone

Carrie Honaker
3 min readDec 17, 2020

Sharing numbers on pitching and acceptance/rejection rates should not be a secret. The data can help all freelance writers understand the real work.

Lots of end-of-year roundups with pieces writers published throughout 2020 have been circling around social media. Those are great, but one of my writer-friends posted her pitching stats rather than an…

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Carrie Honaker

Freelance writer who loves eating messy food, drinking spicy tempranillos, and finding the next great dive bar.