Our Freelance Writing Needs Defined
We must make the types of independent niches fit our needs, wants and
values and lifestyles, and we must also get in shape
independent niche types. Of our waking hours, we work more
than we do anything else. I keep this in mind when college
students come to me worried about what to do for a living,
and I tell them (because I want them happy) to do what
to love. I also tell you (because I believe in the truth) that
do what they are good at.
The same goes for freelance writers. If we have talent
have a chance. If we have a tough work ethic, we have a
Better luck. And if we’re devoted and relentless enough
enough (and ahem, masochistic enough) about writing for a
living, we will be able to put into our lives what we are
actually professional writers. But to do and be so,
we better find the types of freelance writing niches or the type that
it will be spectacular, setting out a corner in the niche
market, one that we will bring passion to every morning as
sounds that damn alarm (after a wonderful thing).
defined niche
From the French derived from the Italian for nicchia, “a kind of shell
niche in a wall”, a niche is a recessed concave enclosure.
It is this small enclosure that we freelance writers need
find, study, practice and possess. It is the small area
specialty that we make ours and offer to those who need it. So he
the smaller (and therefore the less competitive), the better.
We in the freelance writing business and those of us who work
To get into it, you have many industries to work with:
Advertising
B2B (business to business)
B2C (business to customer/client)
Entertainment
Finance
Medicine
nonprofit
Publishing (online/offline)
To break
Research/Marketing
real estate
Science
Technology
Defined niche types
And for every industry there are dozens of types of freelance writing niches:
Creative writing – I’ll say it again from my elevated loft of
opinions that I believe all writing is creative, as it is
generative. My point is confirmed when we look at all the
types of writing projects a creative freelancer can do or
enter, from magazine articles on bushwackers and
George Bush to books on embroidery and pine cone needles
and needing family members to
Ghostwriting: Ghostwriting is a popular favorite
choice of many customers, even those who have hung out
shingles (or banner) writer and outsource assignments,
pick them up, pay us (hopefully well), and put yours
names at work, be it a brochure or a book, a web piece
copy or a piece of ad copy.
Proposal writing and business plans: for-profit or non-profit,
companies need writers to create proposals that show the need
And get that need met—monetarily. how is it with
all types of freelance writing niches, with proposal and plan
writing a freelancer has the skills and experience to
prepare documents that are convincing enough that if the
the customer needs hot soup sold in hell the writer will
to deliver. I have written two successful proposals and one
number of grant proposal reports (which ensured continuation
of the grant). They are somewhat interesting, but only for
those writers with a particular delicacy for a cross between
technical and creative/dynamic writing.
PR (Public Relations) Writing- PR writers copy concepts
or concept to complete the work in a series of means, writing
ad copy, do the layout, and design elements such as
brochures, newsletters, press releases, media kits and
more, to achieve the ultimate goal for the customer: name
Mark.
Technical Writing- Involving everything technical, from
professional, consumer and user manuals to technical documents,
technical writing depends on a writer’s ability to
organize, synchronize, structure and develop the details of
technical content.
Writing web content: to meet the objectives of the client’s website.
online presence and brand using high traffic,
websites/sticker pages, the web content developer or
the producer writes what is known as KRP, Keyword Rich Pages.
This particular wave of freelance niche guys was discovered
(years ago) to be more beneficial as SEO, search engine
optimizing/optimized/optimization, text (or content).
While I also specialize in writing about mental health/disability
and creative and memoir writing, web content development is
one of my favorite freelance niche types. To get the
keyphrase keyphrase keyphrase construction
clear, attractive and entertaining while preventing
making a hideous grammatical/rhetorical clunker is a
challenge I look forward to every morning.
Hey, it’s better than the tinkle of the alarm clock, which indicates the fear
of having to punch a card in a factory or fire the boss
to work so they can clean their toilets and scrub their floors. From
Of course, there is no shame in those jobs. I made them for
years to finish graduate school. But that’s more to do
with the other definition of niche: “the status of a
organism within its environment/community, affecting its
survival as a species.
And besides, I love writing much, much more. He is a
fits much better, one I wish for all of you who love the
writing process as much as I love it.*
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*If this is the case, you definitely need to review the
pages on my site with web content and niche sample writing,
articles that exemplify good, accurate, and even humorous writing
and they try to write at the same time.
Works consulted
Bly, Robert W.. Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Do
$85,000 a year. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988.
hyperdictionary WEBNOX CORP., 2000-2003
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December 2004.
Konradt, Brian. “Creating a specialty”. Write from home. http://www.writefromhome.com/writingtradearticles/145.
htm> December 7, 2004.