Freelance writers are mainly freelancers, and their income mainly depends on this profession. Freelance writers, like any profession, not everyone can engage in this profession, and not only a few people with profound writing skills can do it well. A successful freelance writer is actually a great essayist. Besides learning the basic skills of writing from his predecessors, he also needs extensive knowledge. Only when he knows more can he write well.

Freelance writers generally have no fixed income. The standard of general manuscript fee varies greatly according to different industries. General IT and game media 100-200 yuan/qianzi, with more than 200 senior authors. My most expensive manuscript is sold to 500 yuan/Thousand Words, which is quite rare. If you contribute to a magazine like Fashion/Girlfriend/Reader, the quality of the contribution is very high, and the contribution fee will reach 300-500 yuan/thousand words.

Freelance writers should have basic literary skills and basic writing skills. If the language ability is not good, then no matter how good the idea is, it can't be written well; If you lack the expression skills of the article, you can't write a good article even if you express your meaning clearly.

Freelance writers should have enough writing time. Full-time writers need to focus on their preparation for work. In the word' freelance writer',' freedom' means that you are not affiliated with any company, and you can completely decide where to contribute and when to finish it. Part-time writers need to consider whether their main business has enough spare time to write.

Freelance writers should have the ability to observe and think. No matter what kind of artistic expression, the inspiration material of its performer comes from life. An excellent freelance writer will find every detail story in his life and think about the truth, and express his findings and thoughts in words for others to understand. Moreover, articles are not idle, and what writers write just for writing has no substantive meaning-unless leisure time is also a kind of meaning.

Freelance writers should have the ability to collect information and organize materials. According to the characteristics of the type of manuscript to be written, pay attention to collecting information that is conducive to the creation of its type and characteristics, and make notes or backups in the computer when necessary. Such careful preparation will try not to exhaust the inspiration and material of creation.

Freelance writers should have the spirit of research. In addition to constantly learning and honing their writing skills, we also need to study and understand the interests of newspapers and readers, so that the trend of self-created article types will have a rough prototype. Have enough patience and firm perseverance. Usually, people who have just started freelance writing often have too many works that are not adopted, or even adopted. But this is the only way for every freelance writer. Only those who have enough patience and perseverance will gradually occupy a place in the industry.