The Complete Freelance Writing Course by Udemy
Create a multimedia writing portfolio for freelance profit and profile
Course Highlights
- identify opportunities for paid writing work in all sorts of unexpected places
- pitch effectively to these outlets
- determine your strengths and market opportunities on different platforms
- coach yourself in any form of writing
- write for podcasts
- write for for video
- write blog posts, web copy, white papers, ebooks and for B2B outlets
- write speeches and presentations
- write to influence
- write apps
- apply principles of clarity, fluency and flow to your writing
- market your writing practice using creativity rather than online shouting
- critique the work of successful writers you admire, analyze their technique and use it yourself
- negotiate fair fees for your work
- employ formats to help you work faster and smarter
- use technology to help you work faster and smarter
- review your skills level and plan further personal development
- compete effectively in writing marketplaces using your portfolio
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
7 Topics
How This Course Works
Where Are You Starting From?
Why Do You Write?
Helpful Practice Activity: A Writing Manifesto For Your Portfolio
Checklist For Course Exercises: Track Your Progress
Video Transcript
Helpful Practice Activity: Ikigai For Writers
10 Topics
Why Research Is Core
Chat GPT For Writers: AI And Research
Helpful Practice Activity - and Fun Too: Ethnographic Research
Copywriting And Blogging
Stand Out With These Skills: Web Design Podcasts Video Script
Your Writing Mission
Helpful Practice Activity: Flow Diary And State Your Mission
Realizing Your Writing Intentions
Direct To Market: From Traditional To Indie Publishing
Video Transcript
5 Topics
What Writing Has Most Value
Helpful Practice Activity: Hook Your Readers With Value Added Writing
B2B and B2C
ACTION: Setting Realistic Money Goals
Video Transcript
9 Topics
Your Daily Practice
Helpful Practice Activity: How To Write Like Joan Didion
ACTION: Freeflow Writing
Finding And Studying Role Models
Helpful Practice Activity: More On Role Model Writers - Brains And Paths
Video Transcript
Writers Block: Beat The Block
Identify Your Type of Writer's Block: Are you a fighter fleer or freezer?
Vision Boards For Writers: Helpful Practice Activity
8 Topics
Know Your Aim
Keep It Simple
Rules For Clarity
Fluency And Flow
Vivid Writing
Your Writing Voice
ACTION: Your Verb Bank
Video Transcript
5 Topics
49 Items You Can Get Paid To Write
Mind The Gap Thinking
Are You A Pragmatic Writer?
ACTION: Using Slideshare For Inspiration
Video Transcript
4 Topics
Writing Apps
Podcasting
Writing For Video
ACTION: Three Quick Formats
4 Topics
Newsletters
White Papers and Reports
Blogs E Books And Web Copy
Speeches And Presentations
7 Topics
Setting Up Your Portolio
Positioning Networking And Where The Work Is
Money And Skills
Software For Writing
What Editors Want: Types Of Writing
What Editors Want: How To Find Editors
What Editors Want: How To Pitch
1 Topic
A Personal Story
9 Topics
How To Motivate Yourself
Helpful Practice Activity: Writing In To Tropes You Love
Helpful Practice Activity: Irresistible Tropes
Short Story Special: Helpful Practice Activity
Writing Memoir
Helpful Practice Activity: Write By The River Workshop
Helpful Practice Activity: Writing Reset - why and what you write
Helpful Practice Activity: Your Personal Monopoly Likes And Numbers
Resources For Freelance Writers
8 Topics
Writing Prompt: Your First 7 Steps As A Freelance Writer
Writing Practice: Single Sentence Daily
How To Get Feedback For Your Writing
Write More Creatively With Metaphor 1
Self Publishing On Kindle: Tips From Amazon Author Academy
How To Be A More Successiony Writer
Secrets Of Spellbinding Writing
Some Magic For Your Writing: Halloween Special
1 Topic
AI Update For Writers
1 Topic
Keeping Updated
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