Three top tips to make your writing go further

If you like writing, you might want to try to monetise your hobby by honing your skills and putting them to work.

Whether you want to work as a writer or just keep your writing as a job for extra income, writing professionally helps you to develop your skills, write in different voices and for different audiences, and discipline yourself to working to deadlines. All of this helps you to develop transferable skills you can use in other areas of your life.

Follow these three tips to make writing work for you:

1. Develop a niche expertise

You could write a manual, a blog or advisory policy documents that clients need information about. You can self-publish and sell it on online marketplaces or freelancing platforms.

2. Sell your notes

If you’re a student, you can use social media platforms to sell your lecture and revision notes to students in the years below you. This is also doubles up as being a good way to motivate yourself to write concise, accurate and beautifully maintained documents.

3. Blog for businesses

Many small brands now use blogs as a way to bring in new business. They do this to raise awareness of what they have to offer and will pay freelance writers to provide content for their webpages. You don’t need to be an expert in their business; with a bit of research and some good writing skills, you can put together something they will love.

Writing for a living is a versatile way in which to make some cash. It enables you to be creative and to work on your own terms. If you want to learn more about how to go about perfecting your skill, why not download our Freelance Writing for Businesses Diploma Course?