Posts Tagged“writing”

Tips to Help You Become a Travel Writer

Travel writing is one of the fastest routes into getting a gig as a freelance writer. An in-depth knowledge of far-flung places and an ability to express this in writing features compelling content for travel and lifestyle magazine editors. As well as this, the prospect of being paid to travel is enough to have many people licking their lips. If you harbor serious aspirations of becoming a freelance travel writer, it can sometimes be hard to know where to start. To help you, we have put together this concise list of tips that should soon have you well on the…

Can You Really Make a Living as a Freelance Writer?

For all too long aspiring writers have been under the impression that it is impossible to make a career out of writing. It’s almost become a long-running joke of defiant teens proclaiming to their parents in TV series and films that they don’t want to go to law or medical school, they want to achieve their goals as a writer. Yet, thanks to the advancement of technology, and the fact that a writer will (probably) never be replaced by a machine, the writer’s life is as attainable as any other option in 2018. That’s not to say that everyone is…

Using Technology to Improve Research Writing Skills

Traditional research paper writing required an enormous amount of paperwork. Just two decades ago, the process would incur the long and complicated process of visiting a library, perusing the card catalog, visiting the stacks, taking notes in notebooks, organizing ideas on index cards, drafting your paper in longhand online paper, and typing a final copy on a typewriter, or visiting the library or computer lab yet again to use a machine and a dot matrix printer. The entire effort could take days for even the simplest of essays, just because of the challenge involved in going places and physically moving…