When you do freelance writing you sell your work to someone who pays used to write, when you do freelance writing often you’re considered to be self employed.
It doesn’t matter where you look there is something that has words printed on it. We live in an information society. Yet, even though we rely so heavily on the written word even with advances in technology, we still need people to provide that written content. What’s really amazing is that as important as the written word is to most companies, they rarely have a large full time staff to do their writing. These companies often rely on people who will do the writing for them on a freelance basis.
One of the most well-known forms of freelance writing is often referred to as ghost writing. Ghost writers are most often known for penning celebrity autobiographies. The prestige and money the ghost writer makes for writing a celebrity autobiography are well worth the effort. However, most people don’t even know the name of the ghost writer.
The news media is another place that relies heavily on freelance writing but most people aren’t aware of this fact. In the old days, most news media outlets employed an army of reporters ready to go just about anywhere at any time if a story suddenly broke. Today, the news media doesn’t have to employ large amounts of reporters, they rely on freelance reporters to get the scoop on anything that is newsworthy when it occurs, and they buy these stories from the freelance reporter. There is a lot of money to be made in freelance reporting and if a freelance reporter teams up with a freelance photographer or cameraman they can make even more money for their story.
Book shops sell the works of many freelance writers. Fiction books are usually written by freelance writers, this is the type of book they most often write. Some freelance writers try their hand at non-fiction but it takes greater skill and is a much harder genre of writing to break into, it takes a lot of effort and work to get a non-fiction book published.
Far and away the easiest freelance writing field to break into is that of local publications like newspapers and magazines. It is the content of these two vehicles that drive the popularity so editors are always on the look-out for new authors to present their readers with different content. We should also include here the huge numbers of people who own web sites. They too are constantly seeking to improve the standings of their web sites by introducing new, relevant and valuable information.
Usually these website owners are looking for writers to create articles that are about 500-600 words in length. These articles are relevant information based on what the topic of the website is.
So, what is freelance writing? It is a major opportunity facing people who are prepared to put in a little effort for a lot of reward.
