Careers in Writing

There are quite good number of opportunities for writers today. There is a wide variety of choices to be made out from. The different career options in writing can be broadly classified into the following:

• Content Writer
• Ghost Writer
• Poet and Author
• Technical Writer
• Journalist
• Blogger

Let’s briefly go through each of them.

Content Writeris the one who is responsible for writing and publishing articles or contents both online and offline. There are plentiful opportunities for budding content writers online. A huge number of websites are available today, which provides free publishing of the articles and share the revenue with the content owners. Articles can be paid upfront or may earn residual income as the case may be.

Ghost Writer is the person who is hired by someone to write about anything as per demand. The ghost writer writes on behalf of the owner. And he himself does not own his writings legally. The schedule may be quite hectic and tedious.

Poets and Authorscan publish books, e-books or collections of their poetry, if they are talented. Books can be novels, short stories, children’s books, informative books or any thing else. It depends on the taste of the author. There are some online websites who provides services for marketing the books and the like. It can turn out to be quite lucrative one too.

Technical Writers are commonly hired in organizations which require technical writings. For a person to be a technical writer, he should have a minimum knowledge of the technology that he is into.  It can vary depending on the organizations.

Journalists are those responsible for writing, editing news and other content in print media or others. The profession of journalism would require wit, punctuality and sharp mindedness. The journalists should be flexible enough to cope up with the varying circumstances they get into.

Bloggeris the one who runs a blog or owns a blog. Blogs are usually run on personal basis. The number of bloggers is increasing day by day. The blogs can be beneficial for some if they acquire enough traffic each day. There are some networking sites which pay for blogging. Blogger and Wordpress are very popular ones offering free services for running blogs.