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    FEE-LANCE WRITING - A Complete Guide To A Profitable Writing Business
    FEE-LANCE WRITING - A Complete Guide To A Profitable Writing Business
    FEE-LANCE WRITING - A Complete Guide To A Profitable Writing Business
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    FEE-LANCE WRITING - A Complete Guide To A Profitable Writing Business

    By Sue Kendrick

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    A complete guide to launching and running a successful freelance writing business including writing for the web, the business sector and the magazine market.

    Includes sample query letters, advice on pitching correctly, supplying illustrations, research and the all important aspect of getting paid for your efforts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSue Kendrick
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476211305
    FEE-LANCE WRITING - A Complete Guide To A Profitable Writing Business

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      FEE-LANCE WRITING - A Complete Guide To A Profitable Writing Business - Sue Kendrick

      C O N T E N T S

      INTRODUCTION

      PART ONE …………………………QUICK START

      CHAPTER 1 ……Doing the Ground Work

      CHAPTER 2 ……Finding Markets

      CHAPTER 3 ……Research, Research, Research!

      CHAPTER 4 ……Setting the Tone

      CHAPTER 5 ……Generating Ideas & Research

      CHAPTER 6 ……Hitting the Page

      CHAPTER 7 ……Going to Market

      PART TWO ……Advanced Advice & Taking It Further

      CHAPTER 1 ……Email Query letters

      CHAPTER 2 ……Supplying Photographs

      CHAPTER 3 ……Writing For The Web

      CHAPTER 4 ……Using and Understanding Search Engines

      CHAPTER 5 ……Organising & Starting Your Writing Business

      CHAPTER 6 ……Dealing with bad payers

      CONCLUSION

      ABOUT SUE KENDRICK

      INTRODUCTION

      Contrary to what many people think, it is quite easy to build a writing career. If you can write reasonably good English, you can make good money writing for magazines, websites, newsletters and many other lucrative outlets crying out for well written articles.

      The trick is to understand your market and provide the type of content or service it wants. Once you fully understand this, you will be well on the way to making your writing earn at least part of your income and with a little determination could realistically give up the day job.

      The biggest difficulty new freelancers have, is not knowing where to start! The sheer size of the potential market can be a problem in itself. Do you write for magazines? Websites? Or the business sector as a copy writer or marketer? So many options and so many pit falls if you do not know what you are doing and try and tackle all these areas at once!

      This book has been written to help you understand what it means to be a freelance writer, which areas are the most profitable and how to break into them.

      It has been written in two parts. Part One is the Quick Start Guide designed to get you up and running with the basics so that you can begin earning as soon as possible.

      You will find that much of this section targets the magazine market. This is one of the easiest areas to break into and a few acceptances here can give an enormous boost to a new writer’s confidence.

      There are detailed chapters on sourcing and producing the type of articles editors want, plus advice on how to query and submit.

      In Part Two – Taking It Further, we go into more detail on the key areas of freelance writing. You will find chapters on organising your writing business, writing for the web, using and sourcing photographs and querying by email plus how to deal with the inevitable bad payers.

      We will also look at other outlets for your work, some of which you may find quite surprising!

      Each chapter in the Quick Start section ends with a list of suggested tasks which I strongly advise you to complete as it will really consolidate the information in each section and help you understand it better.

      Why has the book been organised in this way? Simply because I know from experience that many people who want to launch a freelance writing career seldom get it off the ground.

      Working through the Quick Start Guide will get you up and running in a minimum of time without bogging you down with a lot of information you won’t need if you decide that freelancing is not for you.

      Finally, you will find that there is a lot about the web in this book for which I make no apology! The web is a tremendous resource for writers as well as being a market in its own right.

      It not only makes sourcing information easier, but it cuts down on time and expense. Also, email has made the exchange of information a much simpler and cheaper process to the point where I would say that anyone who seriously wants to make a career out of their writing really must have a good internet connection and a working knowledge of IT.

      CHAPTER 1 - Doing the Ground Work

      No doubt you’ve all ready realised that writing magazine and newspaper articles can be a profitable and rewarding experience otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this!

      The trouble is this very popularity makes it a very competitive field with the most well-known magazines, newspapers and websites receiving dozens or even hundreds of submissions each month.

      Please don’t let this worry you! There are literally hundreds and hundreds of publications willing to accept freelance material so you are unlikely to run short of markets and can easily avoid the more popular publications until you feel confident enough to take them on.

      The downside to this, and yes there is a downside, is that because of the enormity of possible markets the beginner can find the whole process of deciding where to submit, what to submit and when to submit quite overwhelming.

      The analogy of a child let loose in a sweet shop, not knowing whether to choose humbugs or gobstoppers is not too far from the truth so we need to adopt some method of bringing order out of this glittering chaos!

      BEGIN WITH WHAT YOU KNOW

      You may have heard this old adage before, but writing about what you know is really the best way to embark on an article writing career. It’s true that many articles are written by journalists and other writers who habitually research a topic and then write up the results without having a personal in depth knowledge of the subject, but for a while at least, we’re going to start on safer ground so, let us stick with Old Adage’s advice!

      Writers by default are almost always great readers often with a range of interests. (If by chance you’re an exception, then it’s time you rectified this if you want to make it as a feature writer.)

      Open up your word processor and spend a few minutes jotting down all the things that interest you starting with your current passion. Do not omit anything, even if you only have a passing interest in it.

      Hopefully you will have quite a list! Next, gather together any magazines that you subscribe to or read regularly. Make a list of these. Do the same for any groups, organisations or societies that you may belong to. No doubt there will be a cross over between the three lists. Make a fourth

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