Assignments for Home-Based Writers

From the book – How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business by Lucy V. Parker, these are sixty key assignments for home-based writers:

Advertising copy
Anniversary materials for corporations, organizations, institutions, municipalities
Annual reports
Articles for employee magazines
Articles for single-sponsor magazines
Articles for trade journals and small magazines
Brochures
Calendars
Capability brochures
Catalogues and product sheets
CD-ROM/ Interactive media writing
City and newcomer guides
Collateral materials
Conference and trade show materials
Consultation
Contributing editor assignments
Critical reviewing
Direct-mail packages
Directories
Editing
Employee benefit materials
Environmental materials
Family histories and genealogies
Flyers
Fund-raising materials
Ghost writing and collaboration
Greeting card writing
Indexing
Industry-specific writing
Instructional materials
Investor-relations materials.
Letter writing
Manuals
Menu writing
New product regulatory writing
Newsletters
Newspaper feature writing, reporting and stringing
Packaging design and copy
Policies and procedures writing
Political campaign writing
Press releases and press kits
Proofreading
Proposals
Public relations services and materials
Radio and TV ads and promotions
Researching
Restaurant reviewing and writing
Resume writing
Retail and mall promotions
Sales presentations
Scripts and storyboards
Speeches
Sports materials and services
Teaching writing
Technical writing
Telemarketing scripts
Transcripts and other forms of word processing
Translations
Travel writing
Website content providing

Go through the list and pick out which you like to do, could do more of, or could learn to do. It’s a great list. Find a copy of the book for more information about any of the assignments above.

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