Career as an Online Writer

The saying that leaders are born or made does exclude writers especially internet writers. As a writer, be it online or offline, you need to decipher whether you are a born writer or a made writer. This often takes instinct and public comments to discover. In either case, it is the influence on your readers that really matters, not a personal appraisal Born writers have natural inclination to writing.

They do less work in getting their ideas right. They naturally flow with words and styles. Many such writers do it for self satisfaction rather than the reward. Formal education in English and Grammar is needed in order not to be caught in a grammatical error. Made writers are basically the ones with university or college degree in English and Literature. They took it as a profession or a means of livelihood. They study very hard to have a maximum influence on readers. However, they lack natural inclination to writing. A born writer is advantageous if properly trained. Whether you are born writer or made writer, the point is that you are face with so many challenges ranging from selecting relevant topics, impacts on readers, where to publish and the reward. Selecting the Right Topics This is very important in a writer’s career. It should be noted that experience has a positive effect. Writing articles is not writing anything you like and expect readers to like them because you wrote it. You need to put people’s interest in mind else you go obsolete. Impact on readers The way you communicate in writing should be natural. Readers tend to comprehend write ups that are natural that forced grammatical high tone syntax.

People have experience of publishing articles that are never commented just because the intonation and the mode are not in place. Where to publish Some websites are not good for writers especially newbie. These sites frustrate writers by constantly rejecting their articles instead of using their editorial team to improve the article. Also some publishing sites pay very low for submitted articles. This is a very big challenge for online freelancer. They work very hard, researching for topics and concepts only to end up being paid pennies. The Reward The reward for labor is wages. But the case of an online writing might be self satisfaction and few bucks. The goal of writers is to create content that will impact readers and expect reward in the form of cash or satisfaction in return. Online writers should focus in quality content, popularity of topics, grammar, style, tone and reader’s mind.