How to Become a Content Writer Without Experience

Becoming a content writer is one of the best decisions one can make at the moment because it is a digital era, and content writing is one of the most demanding skills.

If you become a content writer, you can master your financial life through this gig.

Many people think that to become a content writer, they need certifications, degrees, and extensive experience.

You do not need to have all of them. What you need to do is take the initiative.

As far as knowledge is concerned, no doubt it plays an important role, but you will gain knowledge through the process of your journey.

You just need to work on some basic aspects to take initiative. I am discussing them in this post.

What is content writing?

Anything that you are consuming on the internet is content. You watch videos; it's called video content. You read things on the internet; it's called written content. 

You search on Google, and 1000 websites pop up. The entire stuff that you read is content. 

You are reading this article on Medium, Vocal.media, or Substack. It is content. 

Why you should become a content writer? 

Content writing is the most demanding skill set on the internet. Business hires a content writer. Website owners need content writers. People need content writing for everything, e.g.: 

Business

Newsletter

Amazon books

LinkedIn Branding 

Social media conger 

Website content 

YouTube script writing 

Every business on the internet depends on content. Even if you acquire some other skills like video editing, you still need written content, like scripts for videos, descriptions when you post videos, and many more. 

Long story short, it's a potential skill set. 

How to become a content writer without experience? 

As counting starts from one, the experience begins from nothing. 

To build experience, you need to start from zero. Start from scratch and evolve through the process. 

What do you need to do? Learn!

You need to learn from free sources. Learn from YouTube, and read content on the internet. You need to be clear about what content writing is. You avail yourself of the free courses available on the internet, like YouTube, Google, etc. 

Content writing is a broad term; there come a lot within. After learning about content writing, you will be well aware of its type; you can go specific and can proceed as broad. 

Such as;

You can be an article writer, copywriter, website page writer, or ghostwriter. These all categories lie within the term content writing. 

For example: I am a content writer. I work in the article, script, and ghostwriting domains. 

Start writing without a client.

What you learned through courses and online sources, you must leverage that stuff into practice. 

You'll not get clients after watching "content writing" course videos. Do practice. 

Let's say you are going to become an article writer. Learn how to write an article and then implement what you learned. 

Learn daily. Write daily. Practice daily.

Portfolio

Build a free portfolio. If you are into the article writing domain, you can post your content on these sites:

Medium

Vocal.media

HubPages

Substack

LinkedIn

Medium helps me a lot in improving my writing and becoming a better writer. 

If you are going to sell a ghostwriting service for book writing, then write a short book, format it with Canva, and use it as a sample. It will take time, but effort and learning is important. Again, I would say things start from scratch. 

In fact, every freelance site has a portfolio section. You can create a direct portfolio there too. 

Start selling

Create your accounts on freelance sites. Post your services. Polish profile and start pitching. 

Learning is a continuous process. Approach everything very professionally and generously. You are becoming a professional content writer, so don't try to compromise quality. 

My story

When I won my first project, I had nothing as a portfolio. In fact, I was not aware that I could use Medium as a portfolio, though I joined Medium at the same time. My first client asked me to provide a sample. I pen a new article on demand. I submitted it, it got accepted, and I won the project. 

• I was willing to accept my mistakes, correct them, and cooperate. 
• I revise till the satisfaction is met. 
• I work hard to meet the quality. Though I was not a perfect writer, I still managed to provide work as expected because I never said no to learning. 

Once you are in the process and are consistent and dedicated, the puzzle will get solved on its own. 

Congratulations, your journey has begun. Now, you can make it evolve beautifully. The process is the biggest guru; just be into it optimistically.