writer – Kelterss

My writing pet peeves

I’m not saying that life as a professional content writer is full of frustrations, but…it kind of is! These little things always have a way of getting under your skin.

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Ask the Writer: what education do you have and need to be a business content writer?

There are no set goals to being a professional writer other than to study writing in some form. Most will take an English degree (like I did) and then specialize based on their institution’s offerings. As far as my own journey, I started and trained as a creative writer and ended up as a business content writer almost by accident!

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Is there a future in business content writing?

Business content writing is different from creative writing or technical writing. It requires a different approach and a different engagement need. If you’re looking for a profitable career as a writer, this may just be it.

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Top 3 things I love about private freelancing

One of the things that I learned when trying out private freelancing for the first time was staying in charge of the things that matter most to me. Those things may not matter to other professional writers, or they may seem unimportant to the customer, but they are important to me.

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Top 3 things I love about platform freelancing

You don't have to decide between platform and private freelancing. As I said, I do both and enjoy both for unique reasons. The options are out there, so you may as well make use of them. Right?

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Common questions on my career path

There are some questions that I get a lot when people discover that I’m a writer. For example: “do you get in arguments with your characters?” Or “Are you still sane?” The answer to both is yes, by the way.

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What I love most about working as a professional writer

There is a lot of content available that is scraped from a competitor or “written” by a spinning engine. It gives content writing a bad name since many average online readers don’t realize what’s going on behind the scenes. I manually write every single word that I deliver. Is it always loved by my customers? Of course not. Sometimes it might even be a piece of crap. But it’s genuinely and authentically my piece of crap.

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Things I wish someone had told me before going into professional writing

There are quite a few things that I wish I had learned before becoming a professional writer. Still, these are the top ones that I use to help inspire the next generation of writers considering the career path. Use these as your compass!

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Critiquing groups: their jobs and limitations

A critiquing group has the kind of power that can either buoy up or weigh down a budding writer just trying to learn and improve. If there s one thing you can take from my words, it would be this: use that power wisely!

A tumbler post by lark kitacity that says "my writing prof said something about critique today that stuck with me: if you give a critique that results in the writer feeling like they never wanna writer again, it is you who have failed as a critique, bc you've extinguished someone's desire to create". There are two replies also by lark kitacity. The first one says "as a critique, your job is not to "make this piece of writing better" but to understand what the writer wants to achieve and help them to achieve it". The second ones says "...just wanted to add in case anyone ins reading the thread that I have had to mute this convo for my sanity so I'm not seeing any notifs, but I appreciate all the perspectives that have been shared and I'm glad this has resonated with many people".

The best freelancing platforms

When I started out, there wasn’t much out there for trustworthy online platforms to advertise my services, but now there seems to be one on every virtual corner! If you’re looking at getting involved with freelancing platforms, you’ll want to take the time to figure out what the best one is.