The ever-changing technology has led to the expansion of freelance markets. From continent to continent, country to country, city to city and village to village, you will come across many remote workers who have partially or fully dedicated their time to writing articles. The emergence and rapid spread of the internet to rural areas has been alluded as the main reason behind the rapid development of extensive and active online communities of freelance writers and other potential clients. The rapid increase in the number of people signing up for the increased freelance jobs has called for the need to study the benefits and risks associated with this profession.
In doing so, this paper precisely defined who a freelance writer was. The paper also identified, analyzed and provided a comparison among the benefits and risks associated with freelance writing. Conclusively, the paper justified why the benefits of this profession outweigh the risks.
A freelance writer or a freelancer is a writer who is self-employed (Allen 2). A freelancer signs contract(s) with publishers or research firms to write assignments at certain fees. From another perspective, a broad definition of a freelance writer can be someone who worked independently while submitting his pieces of writing to different companies or businesses for publication (The Michigan State University 1). Furthermore, freelance writers get paid for their pieces of work based on flat rates or number of pages written.
Freelance writers have a variety of benefits to choose from. Freelance writers established expanded networks by way of interacting with friends and clients: hence helping one another. For instance, online freelance members can freely share ideas touching on their gene...
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...they started by accruing incomes in their saving accounts. These savings can be very useful in the initial lean periods when these writers will not have started earning from their new professions. However, to address on this issue most freelance firms have introduced payments twice-a-month to cater for these categories of their employees. As a result, this has provided the freelance writing community with steady flow of incomes.
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In this day and age, writing is being portrayed through various mediums, such as film and television. Some of those portrayals depict writing as both good and bad depending on the situation that is present. Authors such as, by E. Shelley Reid, Kevin Roozen, and Anne Lamott all write about important writing concepts that are being depicted in films, like Freedom Writers. The film Freedom Writers shows a positive and accurate portrayal of writing in the sense that the writers should have a connection to what they are writing about, writing is a form of communication, and that writing does not have to be perfect the first time.
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Writing has changed because of the efficiency that technology provides. With the invention of instant messaging, writing has started to become something new entirely. People are writing more often and faster to get a message across. Luckily, students know that the writing that they do with friends is much different than what employers are looking for in the work place (Guffey, M.E., & Loewy, D., pg. 3-29).
Being a good writer is a very unique skill, but so is being able to show it off to the world. Journalists do that every day; they get to write about events happening all around us and share it with the world. Anything from world crises to stocks is their job to report. There are so many different kinds of journalists that deal with many different things. Anywhere from sportscasters to reporters are considered journalists. This job ranges from so many options to write about. People show off their writing skills everyday whether it is through a newspaper or a television screen. Journalism is a great profession to go into if you like to write because there are many types of writing opportunities; working conditions are easy and good, and extensive training is needed.