A year ago, I wrote exclusively for print publications.
However, today, I write exclusively for online publications.
Why did I make the transition? A number of reasons, actually:
Writing for blogs and websites is less work per article.
The people I work with are exciting.
Everything is done online.
If these reasons are compelling enough to prompt you to want to make the transition to online writing, you’ll probably be asking yourself how to go about it.
Here’s the plan I recommend:
Target a few blogs and make contact.
Start writing a few posts a week, and drop some print work.
Use those first posts to get new gigs.
Repeat, increasing your rate and getting better gigs.
Slowly get out of your print commitments.
It’s not difficult, but if you follow my plan, don’t expect the transition to be instantaneous. I made a deliberately gradual transition, over the period of a few months, and I recommend a similar process.
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