Start A New Career By Being A Part-Time Sports Writer
Combine your love of sports and writing to create a new freelance, part-time or full-time career as a sports writer!
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What You Will Learn!
- Learn how to be a sports writer with little or no experience.
- Learn how your lack of a college degree or your age can keep you from being a sports writer.
- How to gain sports writing experience and learn more about sports.
- How and when is the right time to apply for a sports writing job or freelance assignment.
- Learn how to become and sports writer and get published today!
- How to take your sports writing skills to the next level.
- Learn how to write the sports profile article.
- Learn how to write the sports feature article.
- How to write game previews.
- How to cover a sporting event.
- Learn how to move up the ranks and cover college and professional sports.
- Learn about other sports writing and journalism opportunities in your area.
Description
So, you want to be a sports writer?
In this course, I'll share with you my sports writing experiences that started while a just a junior in high school which later developed into a full-time writing jobs covering high school, college and professional sports.
In this lecture, you'll learn how you can take some basic writing skills (and your love for sports) and combine them into a new career. You can even pick up some extra money by being a freelance or part-time sports writer for a local newspaper, radio or television station. There are also other writing opportunities covering local tournaments; sports public relations or writing for a sports blog.
We'll also explore the pros and cons about being a sports writer; how to start gaining experience as a sports writer and how to get your sports writing articles published today.
This course includes 20 lectures and approximately two hours of sports writing instruction and ideas.
Students will also be able to ask questions through the course discussion area.
Who Should Attend!
- This is a beginner course for anyone who enjoys sports and would like to learn how they can work from the ground-up in sports writing.
- Students should have some basic writing experience. Published articles in a school newspaper; local newspaper or writing a blog is a plus.
- This course is probably not for you if you are learning how to write an article or gain interview skills.
