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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