Be Freelance Journalist

Be Freelance Journalist

There are, of course, many more than 10 good reason to become a freelance journalist and writer, however, the ones selected for this article are of particular importance for anybody who is seriously considering this vocation.
1. You can choose the type of article you want to write.
2. You can select where and when to do your writing. Wherever and whenever you produce your best work is your choice every day for the rest of your life.
3. You can determine the style of your articles. Your preferred style of writing is one that you can refine until you can write that way on almost every subject.
4. You decide on the depth of your articles and the amount of information they will contain. Many writers enjoy research, and can spend hours wallowing amid search engines and mountains of articles, facts, images, and other data on the subject matter. You can select your ideal from either end of this range or anywhere in between, and once you have your perfect level, it is better to stick with it.
5. You can even select the media where you want your work published. If you have one or two subjects that you can write about from increasing strength and with authority, you are more able to select your media—right down to defining the actual newspapers or magazines where you will submit your work.
6. When your writing has power, depth, and authority, you can quickly become a writer that editors turn to for a specific article. You can actually become a ‘name’, somebody that people refer to for the authoritative opinion, decision, or article on a given subject. Naturally, this requires considerable knowledge, experience, and research but is a goal that is attainable within any journalistic niche.
7. You can become a freelance writer and journalist at any age, because your readers enjoy good articles and editors commission and pay for articles that their readers want.
8. You can sell your articles over and over again. Most freelance journalists and writers tend to retain ownership of the copyright to their work, which enables them to syndicate it worldwide. There are over 100,000 newspapers and magazines published in the Western world and if you can sell your article for only $25 to only 1% of them, you net $25,000 in one mailing.
9. You can decide your own level of income. You can also set the price of your individual articles, according to the quality and value of your work.
10. You can write a bestseller and retire young! You can even publish a compilation of some of your articles into a book, and some of these hit the bestseller list; as did “The Root Report”, which was published in England many years ago and is still in the bookshops.

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