Web content writing is legitimate writing
Articles, blogging and earning a great living July 15th, 2009If your content makes sense, it doesn’t matter whether you’re doing web writing or hard copy writing. The important thing is that the writer must give the readers an article which the reader will love. Writer material must be interesting and accurate. Much of it depends on the objective of the writer and the writing audience.
Why your audience or readers? Because a real writer has to suit the material by knowing his audience or readers.
A writer writing children’s book or website would know how to use words and animations that fit the interest of a “kiddie audience”. The Disney website is an example of great writing copy geared for children. Whether one writes a children’s book or a website, however, makes no difference because both are legitimate writing. The only difference is in the medium.
By the same token, when one writes a business copy, it doesn’t matter much whether one is doing it for a website or for a magazine. The fact remains that content matters. A business article should be interesting enough for readers to read online. Though business articles may be deemed boring to most readers, the treatment of the story can change all that. A good writer would know how to do a good re-write to catch the attention of both online and hard copy readers. In cases like business writing, a good writer must know the subject to do a re-write. One cannot write about the recent economic bailout without knowing details and making the connection between Wall Street and the main street. Main street would not be interested in a bail out article that’s comprehensive unless the writer can put in it terms that involve “the folks”. The same folks remember are your readers.
Most goes for all kinds of writing. Personal blogs/websitesare also legitimate writing if it happens to be interesting, witty, or funny. Universal appeal is a factor which makes a blog/websites garner more clicks per page. How-to-do things, gardening, relationship and comic blogs are almost always popular because nost readers are interested in things they can do in their routinary lives. There is nothing ordinary about information that will give your folks new and interesting information about “ordinary” things. Frugal living tips, how to save energy, how to fix your own toilet, how to prepare your Halloween turkey are seasonal favorites whether they are written online or not.
Legitimate writing depends on the writer. No one else can make one’s work “legit”, but your style and accuracy. If your readers
come back to your blog and appreciate your work because you’ve suited your material to fit what they want, that makes you a legitimate writer.
The medium doesn’t make a writer legitimate or not. It is the writer’s skill which does. A journalist may do a good story and it will still be a great story whether it’s published on a newspaper or a website. Most newspapers are online and have the same writers as those in their “real” newspapers.
They get read pretty much more when they decide to go online and they remain legitimate writers and newspapers even if they’re both online and hard copy writers. On the other hand, some writers start their ebooks online and end up selling them as hard copy when publishers like Lulu or Amazon find out that they’re interesting enough to market.
There are legitimate writers for news and commentary like moveon dot org, huffington post or lifestyle magazines such as life after fifty dot com and lifestyle online. Those who write for all these online publications are most definitely legitimate writers. If the internet did not exist they would still be good writers and would probably still be writing for publications.
Good writers cannot be classified as online writers or hard copy writers. If you are writing web content that is popular, accurate and well-written, you are a legitimate writer. Your skill, creativity and content is what matters.
