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    Basic Guide to Freelance Writing
    Basic Guide to Freelance Writing
    Basic Guide to Freelance Writing
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    Basic Guide to Freelance Writing

    By Linda Carol Everett

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    Basics for earning income as a freelance writer. Includes information about a freelance writing career, making money online, markets and possibilties, potential problems, and other essential information. Written by a successful freelance writer with decades of experience in this career, as well as offline writing success in radio, television and with her own ad agency. Describes various aspects of this area of work, including benefits as well as challenges.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Carol Everett
    Release dateMay 15, 2017
    ISBN9781370874057
    Basic Guide to Freelance Writing
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    Linda Carol Everett

    Linda Carol Everett has been a professional copywriter for over four decades. She has worked in media sales, writing and photography at radio, tv stations and at advertising agencies, in addition to running several websites. She has been successfully writing online web content for many years, including SEO projects for clients worldwide. She is a certified Paralegal.Her article writing can be viewed at: http://www.grandmaslittleblackbook.com.In past years, Linda was writer/photographer for two versions of Windsor Publications Newcomers Guide to Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton Counties. For ad agencies, she has contributed writing and photographic skllls to a variety of client orders, for national companies as well as local businesses. One of her first radio copywriting jobs was for a then fledgling pizza business in East Lansing, MI, Domino's Pizza.Most recently, Linda has been writing web content articles for several online text service companies. She has successfully sold over 10,000 web content articles in the past four years, and sells eBooks for freelancers and others on her website. She has 23 eBooks for sale online.Linda graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Communication Arts, in 1972. She completed certification as a Paralegal in 2004.

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      Basic Guide to Freelance Writing - Linda Carol Everett

      Basic Guide to Freelance Writing – Online & Offline

      by Linda Carol Everett

      Smashwords Edition – Copyright 2017

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to www.Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Welcome!

      Sparks of a Beginning Writing Career

      Freelance Writing - Basic Beginnings, Experience Counts, Retirement Income, Benefits

      Online Freelance Writing - compilation of eBooks, etc., for making money online

      Offline Freelance Writing - markets & possibilities

      Potential Problems

      Coordinate Writing with Offline Jobs

      Freelance Writing At Home

      Bottom Line

      Where to Find Writing Jobs Online

      Best of Luck!

      INTRODUCTION

      This guidebook consists of a package of information that has been accumulated during 50+ years of my overall lifetime experiences as a paid freelance writer, and also many years as a full-time paid copywriter. Naturally, there is additional writing time that dates back to early childhood, which is where the initial creation of my basic foundational base of information began.

      You most likely are reading this eBook because you are interested in the possibilities of making money as a writer, either online or offline. Many writers started off in the same manner, keeping diaries, writing fabulous term papers and essays in school, and having an excellent background in a group of essential writing skills. At some point, they may have lucked out by finding a paying position as writer for a business or media station. Even a brief instance of such initial luck has sparked a writing career for many people. In more recent years, the accessibility of work via the internet has generated paying writing jobs for tens of thousands of people.

      If you are paid for your writing skills, in most minds, that makes you a writer. On the other hand, it is important to be adept at your trade if you wish to make money with your talent. Writing and good writing are far different things. The basic goal of each is communication, but basic writing is primitive, compared to good writing. For many types of freelance writing, there are additional goals, such as creating a mood, prompting action, conveying specialized information, and using other hidden aspects of the written words.

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