Freelance sites and Examples of work.

Thank you for your kind response! I just thought of your blog suggestion last night as well. I am currently in the process of creating it, and it is not published yet. But soon enough it will be. And I will use a majority of that I'm sure. I normally wouldn't think of using Mylot as main source, or even a source at all. But right now I am new to freelance writing. And I don't have many sources to pull from, for good examples. So with that said, I know it will be hard getting hired for a job to take on. Seeing that you are a freelance writer, could you please direct me where you started out? And what sites you use? What would be a good place for me to begin? I am thinking about signing up for sites like Triond, Hubpages, Taskbroker, and Yahoo voice. After a couple months of using those sites. I should have enough examples to better my chances of landing a gig on say, Odesk or Freelancer. Your thoughts?

I've been publishing on YCN (Yahoo Contributor Network, which is Voices, Yahoo! News, Sports, Shine, OMG, etc) for several years now and I do ok. It's harder now than it was because even those articles you don't request upfront pay for must be reviewed, unless you're a Featured Contributor (and I am). Still, you can still publish most anything you want as long as you're within TOS, and it's a good way to get your feet wet. I'm very active there on the forums helping people, and we have Facebook groups for support too. If you go to my profile here on myLot, you can find the link to my writing beneath my avatar.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your insight. I look forward to possibly contributing to YCN in the near future.