Founder’s Note: The Work Behind the Work
The girl in this photo once ran a brand called Women Who Write Are Dope. She believed writing could save her.
She wasn’t wrong, just early.
That belief didn’t disappear when I sold the company. It reshaped into what I’ve built here. Remote Writing Jobs is my homecoming.
For anyone confused or feeling a way about why I charge for access to RWJ, this is the labor you’re not calculating:
I’m a writer first. And this past year, I’ve been a writer struggling to find her way back to the page. Grief hollowed my rhythms. Made the work feel both urgent and impossible.
Still, every day, I show up with something worthwhile and hard-won to add to RWJ. I vet leads with care. I make judgment calls. I advocate for writerpreneurship and creative autonomy.
This isn’t a hobby or a side project. It’s labor I carry with intention, powered by muscle memory and stubborn hope. It runs on hours, on instinct, on a standard I refuse to lower. And I no longer shrink around the fact that this work has value. That it’s become my livelihood.
There’s no other resource like it.
Not this precise.
Not this faithful.
Not built by a writer still betting on the worth of our work.
So when someone unsubscribes the second they see a paywall, it registers deeper than I want to admit. Not because I expect everyone to pay, but because I’m doing this as one of you. More honestly, I’m steadying the ground for others while mine still shakes.
If you’ve supported this work, thank you. You’re not just keeping a directory going. You’re giving a fellow writer space to breathe, to grieve, and to keep showing up.
This is more than job curation. It’s the scaffolding that holds me up too.
With gratitude,
-Melissa
If you understand what it means to keep showing up when the work feels hard, your subscription of $15/month or $60/year helps keep Remote Writing Jobs going. Thank you for being here, for believing in this work, and for walking this path alongside me.