Hello! My name is Chris and I'm interested in making a living freelance writing. My interests are in politics, skiing, and travel, and I'm headed to East Asia at the end of the month to travel indefinitely around the world. While I have a side business that pays the bills at the moment I do hope to eventually transition to making most of my money through my writing.
I come from a sales background, and this is my first attempt at writing professionally after gaining that experience. It's amazing how differently I view it now, as I simultaneously dig for markets and develop ideas for pieces, I see how this can come together and actually work. Before I suppose I viewed writers as those who were lucky, 'discovered,' or what have you, one in a million who had to toil for decades before they struck it rich (if they ever did).
Anyway my main focus right now is to identify an alternative to travel writing. Ironically I don't care for most travel writing, and the stuff I do care for (Tim Cahill) doesn't really fit me as a writer. It also seems like a very oversaturated market.
Tim Cahill, for example is a great writer because he is first not a writer but a storyteller. These things are related but not the same. I'm first a strong writer and I think quite bad at telling stories. That would seem to lend itself more to coverage, matter-of-fact type stuff. Whatever my place is I would hope it provides an excuse for me to travel extensively.
Anyway I look forward to meeting folks here working to get a better sense of the markets that would best fit me. Thanks for reading!
I come from a sales background, and this is my first attempt at writing professionally after gaining that experience. It's amazing how differently I view it now, as I simultaneously dig for markets and develop ideas for pieces, I see how this can come together and actually work. Before I suppose I viewed writers as those who were lucky, 'discovered,' or what have you, one in a million who had to toil for decades before they struck it rich (if they ever did).
Anyway my main focus right now is to identify an alternative to travel writing. Ironically I don't care for most travel writing, and the stuff I do care for (Tim Cahill) doesn't really fit me as a writer. It also seems like a very oversaturated market.
Tim Cahill, for example is a great writer because he is first not a writer but a storyteller. These things are related but not the same. I'm first a strong writer and I think quite bad at telling stories. That would seem to lend itself more to coverage, matter-of-fact type stuff. Whatever my place is I would hope it provides an excuse for me to travel extensively.
Anyway I look forward to meeting folks here working to get a better sense of the markets that would best fit me. Thanks for reading!
