The Complete Freelance Writing Course

Create a multimedia writing portfolio for freelance profit and profile

Created by: Philippa Davies
Writer and Psychologist

What Will I Learn?

• identify opportunities for paid writing work in all sorts of unexpected places
• pitch effectively to these outlets
• determine your strengths and market opportunities on different platforms
• coach yourself in any form of writing
• write for podcasts
• write for for video
• write blog posts, web copy, white papers, ebooks and for B2B outlets
• write speeches and presentations
• write to influence
• write apps
• apply principles of clarity, fluency and flow to your writing
• market your writing practice using creativity rather than online shouting
• critique the work of successful writers you admire, analyze their technique and use it yourself
• negotiate fair fees for your work
• employ formats to help you work faster and smarter
• use technology to help you work faster and smarter
• review your skills level and plan further personal development
• compete effectively in writing marketplaces using your portfolio

Requirements

• Before starting this course, you should be able to write with moderate fluency on a computer. You should want to earn money for your writing, either alongside your existing career, as an additional skill in your freelance portfolio, or to set yourselves up in a fee-earning writing practice.

Target audience

• If you love writing, and would like to make a freelance career out of it, then this course will show you how, both in terms of your skill development and the set-up and running of your writing business. You may not yet have a definitive ideas of the type of writing you would like to specialize in, and how to structure a professional writing career. You may not be fully aware of the wide range of opportunities available to writers. You may already be freelance in another discipline and want to write as bolt-on, or hope to become freelance.