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How to start your writing career on the Internet
The whole world, including the professions, is going online. If you have gotten tired of your day job ( or you are struggling to find one ), would welcome a change that will give you more flexibility and independence and you have a knack for writing- you might want to consider starting a freelance writing career on the internet.
This is a user generated content for MyStory, a YourStory initiative to enable its community to contribute and have their voices heard. The views and writings here reflect that of the author and not of YourStory.
Becoming a freelance writer is not easy, but it is not impossible either. That kind of job requires a lot of dedication and patience, but do not underestimate the power of the internet which connects you with the world, do some research and before you know it, you will land your first writing gig.
Essay writing has always come easily to you, to the point of enjoyment, but have you ever thought about the possibility of turning it into something you can do for a living, considering the number of students seeking essay and dissertation assistance? Given the amount of work and skills it requires, this type of writing pays well.
You can work independently, in which case you should put together a portfolio with your best writing samples, or you can work for an essay mill, which will make it easier for you to connect with clients, but you will often be required to have several years of research and writing experience and provide the proof of your formal qualifications.
In case you have some qualms about dissertation and essay writing, or you just consider it too demanding and time- consuming, you could try your hand at dissertation literature review. It will not require you to write someone’ s dissertation from scratch, you will “ only“ have to provide an overview of the literature published on a certain topic. However, this is by no means an easy task, as you will be required to demonstrate that you have done a thorough research, which is the reason why literature reviews are high in- demand.
Now that we have looked into some job opportunities, let’ s begin with a few practical tips for launching your writing career on the internet:
1. Just begin
Months of research, making a strategy in advance, searching for information and assessing your options will only waste your precious time. You will learn all these things as you dive deeper into the online writing world. The most important is to get things going, grow accustomed to sitting in front of a computer for a long time and learn how to adopt a proactive mindset. But before you take a plunge, make sure that you really want to make a change. Online writing jobs are attractive for many reasons, but there are also some downsides to them, such as not being able to secure a steady stream of work.
2. Set your goals
Set your long- term and short- term goals. That will allow you to understand what kind of work is the best fit for you and what are your expectations from your writing career. Is it to sell a couple of papers or articles each day? Or your goal is to publish on a high- profile web portals and work for an essay writing service making it your only source of income?
3. Advertise yourself
Find someone to build your website and start putting together your portfolio. To put it simply, no client will hire you if you can not prove that you are capable of completing his project. No matter who you are and what are your academic credentials, the first thing you have to do to get noticed is to put together a respectable portfolio. If you specialize in thesis writing, provide some of your best writing samples, preferably relevant to your potential clients and their topics. Write a long and interesting essay on the topic that you know a lot about. Use the papers you wrote for some of your previous clients ( with their approval) with the topic similar to what your potential client needs. Or you can start your own blog because that will allow you to create a writing routine and hone your skills.
4. Adopt proactive job research strategies
If you are already working on a couple of writing gigs simultaneously, this could prove a bit tricky, but at the same time, it will allow you to avoid a huge mistake, because once you complete your current projects you could easily find yourself with no work at all. That short- sightedness could cause you a lot of damage, regardless of whether you do it as a side job or a full- time job. You must learn to be on the lookout for new writing opportunities, and never put all your eggs in one basket.
If you devise a clever strategy and really devote yourself to your new online writing career, you will never again wish to go back to your boring day job.