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Knowing the right freelancing writing niche for you is essential as a professional freelance writer.
One of the reasons most freelance writers are not doing well in the business is because they refuse to distinguish their specialization area.
They want to appear as professionals in all fields and probably believe that would help them get more jobs.
But would it?
“The writing industry is more dynamic than before. It would be old fashioned for a freelance writer to be introducing himself or herself as just a content writer without having any area of specialization.” – Taiwo Sotikare
Apparently, one can’t call such a person a professional freelance writer, since you are virtually into everything.
I mean, do you use the same approach for technical writing and scriptwriting?
And how do you combine copywriting with news reports?
Your prospects are looking at these things when deciding if you can handle their projects or not. And do not forget 70% of clients contact about three freelancers at a go.
Please tell me what happens when your client comes in contact with a writer specializing in that particular niche.
You would miss out.
To avoid this, I have listed
Ten types of writing that you can specialize in as a freelance writer.
Do well to discover the one that falls in your categories and understand it better.
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Creative Writing
Creative writing is an art of communicating your ideas and thought imaginatively. It involves using all kinds of literary devices like characters, events, and scenarios to capture your audience’s attention.
Basically, most freelance writers in creative writing often specialize in ghostwriting eBooks, novels, children’s stories, and others.
Nevertheless, the prospect of creative writing goes beyond that. You can employ creative writing into articles, product descriptions, ads writing, and even copywriting.
Many clients hate boring content, especially those who are less concerned about SEO but engage with their audience.
Contents in these categories include product description, tour review, and many more.
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Copywriting
While many people often confuse copywriting with content writing, the two are entirely different.
Copywriting, in its original form, regards to as contents that are specifically written to generate sales.
A mild definition can broaden it to any content written to promote business while also being in constant touch with your customers and potential.
Whichever definition you intend to settle for, copywriting is specially designed for business purposes.
A specialized freelance copywriter can consider other copywriting aspects like website copywriting, email marketing, landing page, brochure writing, advertisement writing, white papers, etc.
If you are the type who prefers working in an organization, it would be great to consider a content marketing company.
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Website Content Writing
Website content or web copy is the process of writing engaging content for business websites.
The aim is to inform the public about the company while keeping the readers engaged and playing the trick of marketing the business services to readers.
Good website content requires a snippet of copywriting and technical writing, depending on the business niche.
It must be clear, concise, and readers friendly. SEO is another essential skill a professional website content writer must have to enhance the website ranking on the search engines.
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Scriptwriting
Scriptwriting, otherwise known as screenwriting, is an aspect of creative writing whereby you write scripts for movie production.
This doesn’t mean it has to be the convention movie parse.
It could be for a YouTube video, web series, video animation, and even advertisement.
A professional scriptwriter can also go into vast areas like writing script for video games or large movie production.
Going into scriptwriting might require some technical writing knowledge, especially for a gaming script and copywriting if you are delving into advertisement writing. However, the primary skill you can’t do without is creativity.
Remember nobody enjoys washing boring videos.
- Journalism
A freelance writer can go into journalism.
You will be writing news reports and articles for newspapers, blogs, journals, magazines, and others.
Meanwhile, there is a difference between writing a news report for a newspaper publication and writing news reports for online news blogs.
The former requires a good knowledge of SEO while the latter does not.
Moreover, it is uncommon for a newspaper columnist to write listicles, which is very common for blogs.
A freelance journalist writer can also specialize in Press Release writing and distribution.
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Business Writing
Business writing is another type of freelance writing that a freelance writer can specialize in.
It is broad and requires some effective marketing to reach your prospects, which are corporations.
Business writing covers many aspects like grant writing, business plan, pitch, formal letter, and many more. Business writing is always clear and concise without any form of ambiguous statements.
Many businesses employ a full-time business writer who works within their working environment.
However, that doesn’t mean they don’t give work to freelance writers. They do. And often time, they are long-term projects, which makes it more beautiful.
You can read how to write a professional CV for job application.
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Technical Writing
Naturally, the word, technical writing is directly used for contents that are directly related to technology.
However, the term can also be used for any content that requires some technical knowledge before you can understand them. And this is where your work comes in, to simplify the content for regular people to understand it.
Technical writing is broad and extensive, which makes it easier for you to see jobs. Moreover, the demand is very high, and the payment is high.
A freelance technical writer can specialize in niches like business-related writing, cryptocurrency, legal writing, software, etc.
Please go into a niche you aren’t good at. It is always complicated and requires some form of specialization.
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Article and Blog Writing
This is currently the most common aspect of content writing, and most people who regard themselves as content writers (general writing) fall in this category.
It is simply the art of writing articles or blog posts for publication. This can be your blog or a corporate business blog.
Generally, blog writers are not supper paid, like most other specialization on this list, but the job stream is high. Which means you will always get jobs if you are good at it.
Meanwhile, if you are not comfortable with the payment, you can consider starting your personal blog or serve as guest posts to some blogs that pay pretty high.
You can also use some bloggers blog like Medium, Semite, Opera news, and others.
But of course, the payment is petty because they are the hosting website that will generate traffic for you.
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Science and Medical Writing
Science and medical writing can both be classified as a freelance writing niche and specialization.
It requires some medical knowledge to avoid misinforming the audience, especially when discussing something that can endanger their health.
As such, it is only recommended for people in the medical field. Common categories of medical writing are sexual health, mental health, and others.
The payment is cool and quite attractive if you are naturally good at it.
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Speech Writing
Speech writing is another high paying specialization that a freelance writer can venture in.
It is less common these days, which means that you can get streams of jobs with effective targeting marketing. And the good news is the payment is high.
A professional scriptwriter might choose to specialize in a particular niche to target a specific group of people.
However, whichever field you delve into, you will need some snippet of creativity to keep the audience engaged.
Conclusion
All the freelance writing types that made up this list can still be broadened or sub-categorized, depending on the writer’s preference.
Moreover, you can marge some of this specialization together, like creative writing and speech writing. However, it would be unprofessional if you decide to bundle all of them together.
Choose your specialty base on your expertise and experience. It makes your work super easy!
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Taiwo Sotikare is an outstanding freelance copywriter and blogger with 8 years of experience. He has written hundreds of articles on Freelancing, Entrepreneurship, Career and Personal Development, and Digital Trends.
Taiwo is an SEO content writer and consultant at DigitalPud and can be contacted via taiwo@digitalpud.com
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Howdy exceptional blog!
Does running a blog such as this take a large amount of work?
I’ve virtually no knowledge of coding but I was hoping to start my own blog in the near future.
Anyway, should you have any ideas or techniques for new blog owners please share.
I understand this is off topic however I just needed
to ask. Thanks a lot!
Hello Tonia, thank you for the compliment. No problem your question your question was off the topic. Starting a blog of your own is amazing and a very mice thing to do. And sure, it would take much of your time except if you have someone helping your with some aspect. Basically, the technical aspect. You do not need to know any line of code before starting a blog. You could use WordPress or blogger, depending on your preference. I would try and write a comprehensive article this month. Cheers!
Like!! Really appreciate you sharing this blog post.Really thank you! Keep writing.
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