Writing For The Web: Five Reasons Freelance Writers Are Becoming Web Writers
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With the unlimited writing opportunities online, freelance writers are making the jump to Web writing. I’m a writing teacher, and over the past six months, 80 per cent of the questions I receive from freelance writers have been about writing for the Web.
If you’re making a living as a writer, or want to develop a full-time writing career, there are many reasons to make the switch to writing for the Web.
Here are five of them:
1. When You Write For The Web, You Get Paid Fast
When you’re writing for print, you get paid a couple of months after you’ve completed an article, even if the payment is “on acceptance.” If the payment terms are “on publication” you can look forward to getting paid anywhere from six months to a year or longer after you complete the work. This is no way to run a writing career.
Web writers get paid up front, with a retainer. (Tip for new Web writers: always get a retainer.)
2. You Get Published Almost As Fast As You Can Write
Whether you’re writing articles or Web site copy, you see the results fast. This is great if you love instant gratification. Your Web publishing credits also give you visibility, which leads to more writing work.
3. There’s Much Less Competition, So You Rarely (If Ever) Get Rejected
In 2007, new freelance writers still think in terms of magazine and book publication, rather than the Web. As major publications shift more of their operations to the online world, this is changing, but slowly.
This means that in Web writing, a reasonably competent writer gets hired - good writers are in high demand online. This demand will continue to grow, as more and more companies develop their online properties. Someone has to write all those millions of Web pages.
4. There Is Unlimited Opportunity - Spend Your Time Writing And Getting Paid
There’s unlimited opportunity to write online. If you’re used to print publications, you spend a lot of your time researching and sending out queries. This is unpaid writing. Web writers spend their precious time writing and getting paid.
5. You Can Act As Your Own Publisher - Write, And Get Paid Again And Again
Because there’s so much money to be made, once writers familiarize themselves with the Web, they start working for themselves, as Web publishers, publishing their own Web sites, blogs and ezines.
So there you have it: five reasons freelance writers are becoming Web writers. Does this new world of writing sound intriguing? Web writing provides unlimited writing opportunities, much satisfaction, a lot of fun - and of course, a great writing income for writers at all levels of experience.
Resources - Angela’s Web writing ebooks - get started writing for the Web today
* Beat Your Paycheck: Web Writing SECRETS
* The Perfect Article Writing System
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