A Freelance Writer’s 2010 Resolutions
What are your writing resolutions for 2010?
Keep In Touch – Freelance Writing Tip #15
If you’re a freelance writer, then you need contacts. Contacts are either people who can give you stories or people who can give you work. Let’s have a look at these in more detail. Contacts who can give you stories Many of the stories in magazines are spin-offs of events that have made the news. [...]
Press Here: Freelance Writing Tip#14
Whether you’re publicising your own services or doing a writing job for someone else, as a freelance writer you’re likely to be asked to write a press release at some time. Here are the basics of what you need to know. What is a press release? A press release is essentially a news story written [...]
Keep It Fresh – Freelance Writing Tip #13
As a freelance writer, your words need to be fit for purpose. One of the ways you can ensure this is by doing adequate research into your target publication. What does the publication claim to be about? Who does it say it caters for? How many people does it reach? Those questions are a good [...]
Feature Attractions – Freelance Writing Tip #12
Many people who decide on the freelance writing life are thinking of writing for magazines. If that’s you, then you’ll need to know something about feature writing. Most feature articles do at least one of four things: Inform Help Entertain Persuade Feature articles have almost as many structures as there are writers. Throw out [...]
Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip#11 – But First, The News
In the very first tip in this series I talked briefly about structuring articles. Now it’s time to go into that process in a bit more detail, starting with news stories. In many ways, news stories are the building blocks of journalistic writing – and they’re quite useful for other forms as well. That’s because [...]
Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip#10 – Getting the evidence
In the previous tip, I suggested that freelance writers have a recording device and a notebook at every interview. These are basic tools for any writer. Recording devices are relatively easy. In the old days you used a tape recorder. Now you can choose from a range of devices, including minidisk recorders, mp3 recorders and [...]
Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip #9 – The Art of the Interview
As a freelance writer, if you want to be published in a magazine or newspaper, sooner or later you’ll have to talk to someone. Sorry, but journalism is not about sitting in a dark room and making up stories in your head. If that’s what you want to do, write novels or short stories and [...]
Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip #8 – Copyright: rent, don’t sell
Copyright protected works (see the previous tip for a definition) are known as intellectual property. Intellectual property is a bit like real estate – it can be bought, sold, transferred and inherited, though only with your written permission. The key thing to remember as a freelance writer is that ideas themselves are not protected but [...]
Making It As A Freelance Writer – Tip #7 – Copyrights and copy wrongs
As a freelance writer, you’ll need to be aware of the legal protection your work enjoys so you don’t sign away rights that you should retain. Here are some some key aspects of UK copyright law you should be aware of. In the UK, copyright is an automatic and unregistered right. That means there’s no [...]
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