Transforming Yourself Into The Ultimate Freelance Writer That You Can Be

If you want to push yourself into doing what the title of this article is suggesting, here's what you might just need to do:

Widen the vocabulary that you have

You’re having the desire to become an excellent writer so you have to do your best to come up with compelling pieces of writing, the kind that readers will find to very engaging to consume and read. In order to reach this trait, here is one thing that you have to accomplish – expand the avenue where your knowledge of phrases and sentences emanate from.

A valiant warrior must know exactly when to rage on, how to hurt the enemy, and how to block the enemy's attack. Becoming an accomplished writer is very similar to that – he or she knows the most appropriate blows or physical punches to be given at the right moment.

As a writer, you also need to be capable of keying the right words, and even the right figures of speech, to make your articles s as compelling as possible. The only way to be good at this, is to have a wide understanding of semantics and vocabulary. The cool thing is that you don’t have to invest a great amount of money for it. All you need to spend are basically just discipline and effort.

Learn about various formatting styles

Knowing about the right terms to use in an article is by no doubt, one of the best skills to attain. But here is one goal that you must have as well, in order to make your writings as comprehensive as possible, you have to know how to format the characters, phrases, and paragraphs that comprise them.

If you wish to be a writer for academic papers or standard textbooks, you need to acquire some know-how about the likes of MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago Style.

In writing for web publications and blogging content, you have to gain some basic skills that pertain to desktop publishing. It can be simply summed up as knowing what formatting suits best for laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.

In making content meant for the internet, you have to remember that readers will most likely read your articles with their phones. Because of this, you need to format your paragraphs in a mobile-friendly style.

As you type using MS Word or anything similar, you need to set your stanzas in not more than 4 to 5 lines per paragraph. Once they’re displayed on a mobile phone or tablet, your article will be presented in a compressed way, making your paragraphs appear longer than they actually are.

That will be harder for your readers to look at your article for extended periods. They might want to stop reading, and look for other materials that are easier to read than the ones you wrote.

Learn the skill of near-flawless proofreading

Like an artistic sculptor, you really must do your very best to beautify the texture of your writings. Using the right words and styles of formatting can greatly make your articles attractive. But if you are not a good proofreader, your pieces could not get qualified by web-content evaluators.

Experienced and excellent writers are good proofreaders, and you must achieve the same in order to be successful as well. Thankfully, there are writing tools today like Grammarly that can really cut your proofreading tasks in half the time.

But AI software is no match compared to human common sense. The best writers are those that are great at proofreading their work using their high-level thinking, so make it your best effort to work on such a skill.

One of the best proofreading techniques is to read your article backwards, yes… literally backwards. By doing so, the reading ‘predictiveness’ that your own mind gives will be thwarted, presenting your writing word for word instead of sentence by sentence. In effect, you will detect some misspellings and typos in a more accurate manner.

How can you be successful in being an online writer? Here are 3 basic ways.

Applying to online writing companies – this is often the beginner’s most preferred first move. If you Google the keyword “online writing jobs,” you can easily find directions about where to apply and how to apply. If you do apply to these sites, you will most certainly undergo this process:

• uploading your resume

• taking a grammar/English proficiency test

• making a sample essay

• waiting for an email or phone call for application confirmation

The process usually takes place in just one sitting, though the essay writing part may allow you to finish it in days. On average, a waiting period of 14 days is needed for most companies to review your application. Once you get accepted or rejected, you will be notified through email.

Building a portfolio and attracting clients – another way to land an online writing gig is to find a freelance writing platform like Upwork and Fiverr and post your credentials there. By crafting a truly attractive online resume or a portfolio, clients who look for writers might just pick you.

Of course, nobody would be interested in hiring your services if you appear to be someone who can’t deliver. In order for your profile to be clickable and something that’s work checking out, create a solid portfolio by putting links to your previous works that already appear on the web.

If you don’t have article posts that appear on other sites, now might be a good time to start posting. Many free blogging and writing platforms exist out there and you can just simply start putting some articles there so you can have a few followers that might vouch for you.

They might just give your clients the proof that you are a writer who must be taken seriously. You might not get paid by writing for such sites, but they could be the key to writing opportunities where you can get massive amounts of payments.

Direct pitching – if you are a writer who’s just starting out, you can’t expect companies to come to you and commission you to start doing writing projects for them. You need to tell them that you exist and that you are capable of handling the tasks that they want to get done. To start your journey to success, you may opt to send messages to websites and online companies that you have the guts and the skills to write for them.

The key to being good at this is again, building a solid portfolio. With it, you can showcase your writing capabilities and your writing samples. It is your clients’ means of evaluating that you can walk the talk.

So to step on the first levels of success as a writer, compose an email message, attach a query letter to it, and include your writing ideas and outlines that might be of interest to the company you wish to write for. Notify a lot of them. Some of them may respond, most of them may not, but success will always be far from you if you won’t do anything to approach it.

Making your own blog – as what’s stated above, some bloggers become very rich with nothing but passion as their main driving force. If those guys are just ordinary people who did nothing but just wield their writing prowess and created a blog that they managed on their own, and eventually earned great piles of wealth in so doing, then the same thing could happen to you as well.

Blogs comprise a very big chunk of the pages that comprise the internet, and they are responsible for huge amounts of revenues for bloggers as well as web business owners all over the planet. You could grab a huge share of that revenue too if you choose to write for your own blog instead of writing for someone else’s.

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, but here in the digital age, keystrokes are more powerful than the pen. Do you want to be powerful? Be an online writer, and experience a kind of power that only your imagination is capable of grasping.