Freelance Writing Tips for College Students: Introduction

One of the most common questions we hear from college students is "what do I have to offer a business?" For a lot of you (I'm looking at you, Liberal Arts majors) the answer to this question is writing talent. College students are a great fit for businesses looking for a freelance writer Those frantic all-nighters to meet your deadline are finally paying off; and the scathing criticism that your professors have leveled on your work has made you more valuable (even as it destroyed your sense of self-worth). You've got the hard parts covered (you've learned how to write and you've proven–by passing your classes–that you have a sufficient amount of writing talent) but there's still a lot you can do to make yourself attractive to businesses. Fortunately, we're here to help.

Over the next few days, we're going to write up a series of helpful tips to improve your attractiveness as a freelance writer. Believe it or not, we have a little bit of freelance experience ourselves (we won't bore you with all of it, but here are some bland event pieces just so you know you're not taking advice from someone who's pulling stuff out of the air). We're calling this series: "Freelance Writing 335." Why 335 instead of 101? Because you covered the basics just by writing all of those college essays. Oh, also, the whole 101 thing is brutally cliched.