Freelancer's Office: Blog

The word freelancer has been traced to the literary work Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)¹, who used the word to describe a “medieval mercenary warrior.”

The Google ‘define:’ search shows Wikipedia describing freelancer as:

“A freelancer or (freelance worker) is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common. The word’s etymology derives from the medieval term for a mercenary, a “free lance,” which literally described a knight who was not attached to any particular lord, and could be hired for a given task.”

So, the definition of a freelancer would be someone who works without being under contract, selling their service to those who would pay the price they ask. The word freelancer has evolved into being primarily used to define writers that work for a variety of publishers dependent on where they can earn a decent wage for their labor.

The Freelancer’s Office is my online working office for my freelance work as a writer. This is my office in all of its virtual messiness and all of its eclectic chaos that is the nature of working as a freelancer.

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1. Wikipedia.org
   knight picture courtesy of Woodsy[↩]