Commercial Writing — Writing to Make Money

In next week’s Fab Freelance Writing Ezine we cover many different ways of making money from commercial writing.

Here’s an excerpt:

Commercial writing requires a different mind set from writing for yourself. If you’ve been writing short stories, poetry etc, you need to make a mental adjustment.

In commercial writing, you’re either writing so that your client makes money, or writing so that you make money via your writing… if that makes sense.

Writing so that your client makes money

You can be hired to write articles, blog posts, copy (as a copywriter) or Web content writer. These are all vastly different areas. Not sure of the difference? I know that many writers aren’t: they just don’t have the experience.

Writing to make money from your writing yourself

Here’s the fun way to make money writing.

As your writing skills develop, you’ll start to realize that the people/ businesses who are hiring you to write are making money from YOUR words. This will intrigue you sufficiently to explore ways of cutting out the middle men, and of keep your words so that you make money from them.

When you make money from your writing yourself, you’re creating your own Web sites and blogs, writing your own ebooks and your own copy — and get to keep all the profits.

In these straitened economic times, you can make money from your writing skills to supplement your income. If you’re not doing that already, next week’s ezine helps you to get started. This free ezine packed with writing tips issue will be out on Tuesday — don’t miss it.

Angela Booth’s writing guides have been created to help you to make money from your writing every day. Join the thousands of writers who are making great money with their writing skills.

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