Freelancing is not a job but you should understand that it is a business where there are no employers and only clients. It is recommended that you have constant touch with your clients to remind them about your freelancing services offered. As a Freelance editor, other than writing projects your work includes reading proof, restructuring of sentences and reformatting tables and charts. Being a freelancer your work is focused in grammar, punctuations, styles, spellings and applying formats as requested by your publisher as an improved prose.

The market for aspiring freelance editors includes:

1. Publishers of college textbooks and trade books
2. Technical companies scholar publishers,
3. Authors
4. Literary agents.

In order to manage your business, a professional kit is required which includes business card, answering machine, Internet and current software, printer and access to fax. You have to save your Testimonials, recommendations and work samples in your profile. A website will be an added advantage for editors involved in freelancing. Your credibility has to be protected by not over committing projects.

In every article as an editor, you should recheck and correct grammatical mistakes, errors in typography, sentences run-on and structure issues, logic and flow of arguments, reformatting charts with tables, Idiomatic English and bibliographical entries which are incomplete. The editorial resource, which helps you, includes style guides, reference guides and dictionaries.

Some resources which may help you are:

1. The American Heritage Book of English usage is a resource with Grammar rules, formation of words and styles.
2. The style guide Common errors in English are a compendium and U.S Government Printing office style manual are of great help to editors.
3. One look an online dictionary has acronym databases and Webopedia is a technical term for encyclopedia.
4. A reference like American Copy Editors Society (ACES) is a resource in journalism for copy editors.

Editorial Professional /Association (EFA) which is based in New York City is a professional organization for freelancers in the industries of Communication and publication. Free mailing list provides you an opportunity for discussion among freelancers in the publishing industry.

If you are a freelance editor with rich experience in proof reading and also revising Grant proposals (NSF and NIH R01/R21) in research field for the subjects of geography, journalism, medicine, law, anthropology etc then your services will be of great demand. Freelance editors like you are required to edit even journal articles, papers to be presented technically and manuals.

If you have working experience as editor with Word, PowerPoint and WordPerfect, you have an added advantage as you can use the tools and work in common formats also. You can use track changes to review and understand the changes. You will be interested to know that freelance Editors are also expected to work in bitmap and vector graphics. For transcription, you can work with mp3 files. Processing time depends on your work and the schedule of the editor. To edit 20 pages, maximum of 4 working days can be taken by you as a freelancer and for long projects the time has to be estimated. Urgent processing can also be done by request. Hourly rate of payment is also available for you like for resumes, articles that are shorter and letters.

As a freelance editor, your editing should be technically written with multifaceted creativity.