26 Mar 10 How Much Experience Do You Need to Start As a Freelance Writer?
None. Zilch. Nada. Zippo.
You do not need any experience to start with your freelance writing career. All you need is writing ability and determination to make it big. You need a lot of determination because I know many freelance writing aspirants who left the field just after a handful of failures.
No, it is not tough to break into this career, but it takes time before you start making significant sum of money. Initially, the growth rate may be slow, but eventually it will pick up. This is not the right career choice for those who want overnight success, as success comes slowly. I think it happens in every legit field.
What role does experience plays?
Although it does not matter if you have any experience of writing or not, but experience does play a part in your freelancing career. Experience does two things:
- Get you higher pay rate.
- Help you complete the assignment in significantly less time.
- It also helps you know beforehand how much time one project will require. You can use this knowledge to properly bill your clients.
Lack of experience will only result in lower rate and more assignment completion time. And I think, when starting out you can adjust with this. Do not give up, if your rate doesn’t increase in a month or 2 month or may be even in 6 month because the more time you are spending in this career the stronger is the chance of your success. Do not quit it now.
And who said you do not have experience?
Even if you have not written professionally, you must have written a lot of stuff—term paper, assignments, school and colleges essays, or even for school or college publications. Won’t you call it experience? I certainly will. After all, writing is writing is writing, no matter for what you write.
In terms of writing ability, you may already have what it takes to make it big in the freelance writing. If you are not sure then show your written pieces to someone whom you know is good at writing, and go by his opinion. If he says you need improvement then work on it. Nothing is here that you cannot do. All you need is sheer determination. Keep pushing, you will soon be there.
For your free writing success!
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23 Aug 09 Do you also Need Tips on Writing for Web?
How many times have you heard that writing for web is different from writing for print? I am sure, initially, you did not believe it. After all, writing is writing; how does it matter if it’s for print or for the Internet? Well, as a writer, I happen to agree with you, but as a reader, I strongly disagree with you. “Man, I do not have that much of time when I am on the Internet, so better give me something that I can read fast. I want an article that I can read while my Facebook page loads itself. I have to check my mail as well. Boss said the work he delegated in the morning should be finished in an hour. So, please give something that I can scan quickly,” shouts the busy professional inside me, despite my continual effort to shut the F#@@$#r.
Below, I am giving a handful of writing tips that will help people like me read more on the Internet, by the way, most of the people on the Internet are like me only.
- Use Headlines, headings and subheading that make sense. Keep clever lines safe for print.
- Use simple words. No one like using a dictionary when scanning through the Internet.
- Use short sentences to convey the idea.
- Use short paragraphs. Paragraphs that run into 10s of sentences are strict no-no for the web.
- Write a proper paragraph; one idea per paragraph.
- Break the articles into small chunks by using headings and subheads.
- Make your text more scannable by making important keywords bold, italic or by underlining it.
- Use lists like this one, wherever it is possible. It is easy to go through a list than a 10-sentence paragraph.
- Use objective language. Do not make your article sound like a promotion material.
- Link old articles or blog-posts on your domain to retain visitors for long.
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28 Jun 09 Couple of More Crowd-Pulling Headlines
Initially, when I started writing about crowd-pulling headlines, I thought there cannot be more than handful of strategies (formulas) for writing headlines that can build genuine interest in the article. But the more I wrote, the more unconvincing this line of reasoning became, and I ended up writing four posts (including this) on the topic. It goes without saying that I am going to share some more crowd-pulling headlines writing strategies in this post.
Learn… in30 minutes
A headline like this will give the reader a definite time frame in which he or she can acquire the skill or knowledge talked about in the article in question.
Example:
- Learn to Disinfect Your PC in 30 Minutes.
- Learn Piano in 30-Minute a Day.
- Learn HTML in 10 Days.
- Learn Photoshop in 30 Days. (Photoshop in 30 Days).
- CSS in 10 Easy Steps.
Tried and tested headlines
A “tried and tested” headline infuses credibility in the article. A headline like this suggests that the article following the headline will provide the solution which has been tried by many people and they got benefitted from it. This is a type of testimonial headlines. (Read more on Testimonial Headline)
Example:
- Tried and Tested Formula for MLM Success.
- Tried and Tested Method to Make Your Abs Flat.
50 best…tips
“50 best…tips, or 10…tips” or any similar headline gives a definitive idea about the length and nature of the article following such headlines. The article following this kind of headline should be written in a list-format. You can also use subheadings (Tip 1, or X tip 1) to write the article.
Example:
- 50 Best SEO Tips.
- 10 Media Marketing Tips for Success.
- 10 CSS Tips.
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