Can A Journalist Become A Copywriter?
Having spent more than eight years in the off-line media as a journalist and later as commissioning editor, I decided to try myself as a copywriter online. In this case, I saw the following advantages. They are independence of editors, a flexible schedule and a wide choice of topics for articles. That is the life of a copywriter. Certainly it seemed to be much freer than the life of a journalist.
As a journalist, I wrote either in the wake of real news such as reports, interviews or I just selected the conditional information about different incidents. Sometimes I also wrote different kinds of analytic and a couple of times I was also engaged in writing advertising articles. I should say that in most cases I had no problems with all of this mentioned above. Here below I’d like to offer you the main distinctive features of copywriting.
I’d like to begin immediately with the most difficult feature for me which is the size of the text. In journalism it’s possible to chew the main theme of the article from all possible sides. Accordingly texts often contain a great number of words. On the contrary in copywriting the faster you work the better results you can acquire. You’d better sell ten articles with 2-3 thousand characters than one with 25000 characters. As for me I’m used to exploring and examining the topic to the maximum extent. I’m not likely to squeeze everything into the story. I prefer omitting some things which seem to be worthless for me. I should pass the material for the article through my author’s vision at first. At first I try to write the whole article and then I sit and try to break it up into little articles with sub-themes. Of course it’s possible to carry out but at the same time it is very troublesome I should say. It’s because I’ve simply got used to dealing with the topic from all sides. In copywriting you should just write a lot of small articles each of which is going to cover topics from any required angle.
As a rule, a popular theme has long been chewed up by a hundred of writers before you to my great regret. But any way there’s a way you should go in this case. So the essence of this solution is that you should find unusual aspects in any popular theme. Otherwise it will be a sort of rewriting from my point of view. I should say that I’m not likely to use rewriting at all. Besides this you should also avoid complex sentences because you aren’t Dickens of course. In addition it’s not advisable to forget about key words. I hope that my review about copywriting has appeared to be rather absorbing for you.
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