With businesses increasingly moving online, never before has the written word been more important to create and maintain the brand of a company. Working as a writer, whether as a freelancer from home, or within the walls of a company, is growing in its popularity as a career.

Here are some of the benefits of the job.
 

Writing can fit a work-from-home freelance lifestyle

Writing is the ideal profession for a freelancer who prefers to work from home. It’s a job that suits a self-starter, someone who is comfortable working in isolation for hours every day, who enjoys intellectual stimulation, a dollop of creativity and a more relaxed schedule than most nine-to-fivers.

A career as a writer in a team

Writing doesn’t have to be a solo career though. Some writers balance freelance work with work in a team.

Scriptwriters for film and TV often work in collaboration with other writers; news and broadcast journalists can work in a high-pressure newsroom; many magazine journalists work in-house with a team of copyeditors and feature writers; corporate writers work with every level of employee to gather stories and information.

Make money writing

What’s more, with a variety of writing jobs and hard work, it is possible to make a living as a writer.

For those already working full-time, writing can bring in extra cash with stories or articles published in magazines, webzines, newsletters or newspapers.

Changes in the publishing field mean that you can, without vast upfront costs, write and publish e-books on a variety of topics.

Thanks to the internet you can work online writing copy for a variety of formats (websites or content factories).

Business writing and Press Release Writing are high-paying fields. Similarly, writing articles for magazines can bring in a solid income once you have built up a relationship with editors at several magazines.

Working as an in-house journalist or broadcast journalist will pay a decent salary.

Challenging and fascinating

Depending on the field of writing in which you choose to specialize, the job of a writer can take you to…

• exotic far-flung places (Travel  Writing and Writing a Non-fiction Book),
• war zones and the heart of natural disasters (News Journalism and Broadcast Journalism),
• meet fascinating CEOs, leading scientists and film stars (Magazine Journalism)
• the depths of your own memories and life story (Writing Your Memoir)
• the heights of your own imagination (Creative Writing, Poetry, Scriptwriting, Novel writing, Children’s Book writing, Short Story Writing and Flash Fiction)
• the plain, persuasive and grammatically perfect writing demanded in the workplace (Business Writing, Copywriting, Grammar Skills and Writing Coach Course)
• the wild, wild Web and the world of social media, marketing and Web Writing.

Writing is a critical skill in the workplace

Good writing – that is grammatically correct, using the right format and sound layout skills - is a highly valued skill in the workplace.

Well-written documents make an impression that cannot be underestimated. Nothing shouts “I am in control” as loudly as a beautifully written report, emails that communicate clearly and business letters that command respect and elicit a response. 

The opposite is also true. Writing that is riddled with typos, grammatical errors and a hard-to-read layout, immediately creates a poor impression.

It is never too late to improve these skills with a Grammar Course or one-on-one training with a writing coach to learn solid writing skills that could land you that promotion at work.