If you are interested in a career where you can work from anywhere, set your own hours, always have new interesting projects so you never get bored, and make good money, then freelance writing might be a great fit for you. More and more people are recognizing that they can make enough writing as their primary job, or that they can supplement other income with it easily.
If you’re a beginner at freelance writing, and interested in making a career out of it, follow these easy tips:
The first step to starting to write as a career is to decide what kind of writing you want to do. You can find work as a freelance writing in practically any field: from grant writing and academic writing to fiction and blog writing, to article writing. Choose one, or a few, of these areas to focus on. Its better to specialize in a couple areas then to try to market yourself for all of them.
Once you’ve decided what kind of writing you want to do, try to focus it down a bit more by identifying your strengths. For instance, if you’re interested in academic writing and you have a degree in the sciences, then you should try to specialize in academic science writing or technical science. Similarly, if you want to write blog or website content and you know a lot about organic and vegan food and cooking, then you can specialize in food writing.
Once you know what you’ll specialize in, pick the best website for you to work through. There are dozens of different freelance websites that allow you to connect with clients, find and bid on jobs, and get paid. Each of them has a slightly different focus, so choose the one that has the best opportunities for the kind of writing you want to do.
Put together a good portfolio with samples of your best writing in a range of subjects and areas.
When you start out writing you may need to charge a bit less than you normally would at first, then build up your rate over time. This will allow you to get jobs when you are brand new to the site and don’t have a track record. Then, once you have a history and ratings, you can charge more.
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