What Kind of Freelance Writer Do You Want To Be?
People just getting started in freelance writing, or even just thinking about writing as a possible career often ask me “should I specialize?” I’m never sure how to answer that question. My own experience is that my writing career has evolved in ways I never could have predicted.
I started years ago by submitting two articles, one each to Woman’s Day and Family Circle. Both were properly rejected, but they broke the ice on my shyness and hesitancy. I sold a few things to a local newspaper then queried Hazelden about a booklet on being both sober and single. They bought it and that started a specialty in drug and alcohol recovery, which lasted for many years. I still write about this from time-to-time and maintain, sort of, a website about it all called Powerfully Recovered.
Of course, during that time I also did all sorts of other kinds of writing, including ghostwriting, article writing (I had a minor specialty in writing about running for awhile, later I spend some delightful time exploring and writing about boats).
When the web hit I recognized it was another form of publishing and was soon writing for various sites on a wide variety of subjects. And now there’s both web content and blogging.
Today, I’m ghosting three books on disaster preparedness – a whole new specialty for me and it came about because of a ghostwriting job I’d done several years ago. And so it goes. What will I be writing this time next year? Although I’ve got some plans, your guess is as good as mine.
You might want to read an article I wrote called What Kind of Freelance Writer Do You Want To Be?
Write well and often,
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