It's amazing to me how very few people go after freelance writing careers. It's a lucrative profession which requires only one talent: The ability to write content effectively. The content doesn't even have to be perfect in grammar, spelling or punctuation in many cases. If learning to write for profit is something you're interested in, the Freelance Writing Guide [affiliate link] is probably a product that would do you a world of good.
It's no secret that good writers work the same way as everyone else: 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. They spend very little time thinking of what they're going to write about and yet spend a whole lot of time doing the actual writing. This is normal. What isn't normal is the reverse, spending too much time thinking about what to write and not actually writing.
From the beginning of 2009 to the beginning of 2010, I concentrated most of my writing efforts to change this site from a social-oriented site to a search-oriented site. The conversion actually started in 2008, but I didn't concentrate on it. You may wonder what effect it has had on what I write, how I write and how often I write. I'll try to explain as I go along, but only after I tell you what effect it has had on the site itself.
Within the last 15 years, one of the best jobs to open up for just about anyone in the world is freelance writing. This has been made possible by none other than the Internet and the ability to communicate with anyone anywhere, by email, instant messengers and even private messages at popular forums. Out of all the different kinds of freelance jobs out there, freelance writing seems to be the most flexible. If you don't know what I mean by freelancing, please continue reading.
If you stop and think about the words you use every day, and what they really mean, you may be inclined not to use certain words. How do you go about changing the words you use? The short answer is that you have to expand your vocabulary. How exactly do you do that? Try word games such as "search words" on for size.
I don't know if you'd call it a quirk or just a word that has been abused over the years. While the word "glass" properly describes what an object is made of, it has turned into a kind of generic word that also refers to the objects made of glass. I'll explain what I mean by giving you real world examples.
Over the past week or so, I've purposely avoided writing about news items and other things that have kept me in a perpetual state of "pissed off".
Unlike the mass media in the US, I will not participate in the deliberate dumbing down of America. I recently discovered, while checking this blog's results at the Website Grader and The Blog Readability Test, that the reading level needed to digest the contents of this blog is above the level most people in the US graduate from high school with.
I'm not really bored. I'm just not interested. Ever since I started working with niche blogs, I've all but lost complete interest in this blog.
It was Thomas Alva Edison (or just Thomas Edison) who was quoted as saying "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration" in an issue of Harper's Monthly, September 1932. The point made is that being a genius includes a lot of hard work as well as a lot of trial and error. In contrast, it's very easy to be inspired.
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