So before you go freelance, just think about whether you're ready to add a whole lot of other plates to the ones you're already spinning. Because the likelihood is, in this industry right now, you'll have to do other things to supplement your income.

Balancing everything isn't at all Sex and the City or The Devil Wears Prada. My life is messy and scattered, and so is my brain. (next)

I'm now employed by a charity three days a week doing front-facing work, get a retainer fee from a publication to edit and write a bi-weekly newsletter based in the south Wales valleys, and then, on the side, in the evenings, I do my freelance journalism work once the kids go to sleep. (next)

I know that the journalism industry is suffering right now, and that many experienced, more-talented-and-connected-than-me journalists are turning to freelance work. When I saw this shift, I knew I couldn't make freelance journalism my main gig. (next)

It's Thursday, the first day this week that I've gotten dressed in anything other than my Purple Rain oversized t-shirt. The first full day this week I've been able to commit to freelance journalism. (next)

Welcome to La Office Medlicott: my setting-plaster haven of fallen autumn leaves stored on the Welsh dresser, empty cups of coffee on the table, scattered notebooks with notes too difficult to read, and a laptop with a broken keyboard. (next)

The unglamorous job of being a freelance journalist who is also a mum to three kids, and who also works several part-time jobs. (next)

This Friday, people will gather at Bryn Bach Park in Tredegar for Light Up the Lake, a night-time walk and run in Ceri’s memory, raising money for Neuroendocrine Cancer UK. (next)

Ceri’s sister Christie has shared the story of Ceri’s final months, her family’s experience, and why raising awareness has become so important to them. (next)

Now, her family and hundreds of people from across the south Wales valleys are coming together to remember her, and to help make sure others know more about a cancer that can be difficult to recognise. (next)

“Ceri’s last wish was that people knew about this cancer.” Ceri Lewis, a mum of five in Ebbw Vale, was just 44 when she died from a rare neuroendocrine cancer. (next)