Succesful content writer, founder of The Conservative Fiction Project, and Senior Editor, Liberty Island Media, Jamie Wilson, shares her expertise on today’s content writing opportunities.
"One of the biggest changes that content writing has afforded freelancers
is the luxury of a reasonably steady paycheck. My current favorite gig,
CrowdSource, provides consistent multiple projects which are lower paid
compared to many freelance jobs - but they don't require much in the line of
research, and writers can skip the hard speculative work of queries. She
recently started a new gig at PJ Media, www.pjmedia.com.
Content marketing
is all advertising if and only if you consider everything broadcast on network
television, including your favorite shows, to be advertising. It is designed to
be clickbait, drawing readers - but in order to do that properly, it also has
to be engaging content in and of itself, not just content that says "click
the ads." Just like any newspaper or magazine content, web content needs
to a) provide something of value to the reader and b) make money. The key to
not being a hack is understanding the balance between the two - and sites that
balance these two things properly are the ones that are most successful at
both.
Journalism is indeed about information provided to an audience - but more and more, that audience is unwilling to pay directly for that information as they find more ways to acquire it for free. For that reason, journalism has been borrowing more heavily from content marketing techniques as the years go on, just in order to remain viable. Examples would include USA Today's very large content program and the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate website, which is primarily what you might term content marketing. I know that's about clear as mud, but so is the demarcation between content marketing and journalism today.”
She says good freelancers make good money doing content writing and editing - but they aren't hacks. Just like any other writing segment, there are tiers of expertise, and I've been fortunate enough to meet some of the best,” Jamie says.
A Navy wife and
the mother of five children, she is the sister of a war hero.
“I am the founder of The Conservative Fiction Project, which helps conservative writers find one another and a wider audience. I work with Liberty Island Media, the first overtly conservative fiction publisher. I have always read stories and told stories, and I will always be a storyteller.”
Read Jamie Wilson’s stories, The
Biscuit Boy and The
Enforcement of Happiness, on Liberty Island
Twitter:@jamiekwil
As a member of Writing Workshop since 1996, I'm always happy to share important information like Jamies.
Join Internet Writing Workshop Your sure to find the list that will help you the most, and compatible members, willing to help you succeed.
OR Internet Writing Workshop