A Fast Track Approach to Making Money as a Freelance Writer (Self-Directed)

Course Code: DED247-B
School: Distance-Education.org

Description

Designed for individuals interested in becoming a freelance writer. This course provides methods that work and help budding writers to put their careers in high gear or assist individuals desiring a new career to get started.

This course demonstrates proven methods other writers have used through strategies of getting organized, establishing themselves as a writer, soliciting work, implementing networking, and selling themselves as a writer. With the ultimate goal to become a successful freelance writer.

Outcomes

Upon completion of this course students should be able to do or have done the following:

• Know how to get organized
• Implemented strategies to establish themselves as a freelance writer
• Have submitted at least one article or story
• Know how to present (and sell) themselves as a professional writer
• Understand some of the basics of networking
• Learn what First North American serial rights are
• Know how to prepare a professional query letter

Assessment

• Student will demonstrate their understanding of how to get started by taking a test on organization and structure
• Student will have submitted at least one story or article for evaluation employing editing and producing a clean copy technique for evaluation
• During the course of their study, the student will perform their first act of becoming a professional writer by approaching and or soliciting at least one market
• The student will go to a writers group or some other social function that will allow them to present themselves as a writer and start employing networking skills
• The student should establish a submission's chart, get (or make)business cards and other tools designed to assist them in their quest of becoming a successful freelance writer

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