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The following is
an excerpt from my book, FREELANCE POKER WRITING: How to Make Money Writing
for the Gaming Industry © 2006 Brian Konradt
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"Writing about poker and gaming, along with their
influences on society, is limitless."
This book is
slightly ahead of its time. Freelance Poker Writing is the first book
showing freelance writers how to make money writing for the gaming industry.
Why now? Both poker and casino-style games have been growing in popularity --
and so has the writing opportunities. If you search for “poker
writing” or “legalized game writing” on Google, you won’t
come up with much information on how to break into this industry as a freelance
writer. This does not mean writing opportunities don’t exist or freelance
writers aren’t making money writing about poker and gaming. If you dig
long enough, interview the pros in the industry, and research everything about
poker and gaming, you will come up with what I came up. And I crammed
everything I found into this guide for you.
DEFINITION
There are many popular casino-style games, but nothing matches the
growth and popularity of poker and how poker influences society. In writing
this book I have focused more on the games and influences of poker than on any
other casino-style games. I use the term “poker writing” in this book
to mean writing about the games of poker, as well as writing about the
influences of poker. As you will learn throughout this book, poker writing
covers limitless topics in the gaming world; and poker writing can be a blend
of journalism, feature writing, sports writing, entertainment writing, travel
writing, food writing, technical writing, and so on, depending on what you
choose to write.
What is freelance poker writing?
You might think “freelance poker writing” is exactly that:
writing about poker games. You might also think poker writing is about writing
for one specific market: poker magazines. This might have been true years ago,
but not so today. The expanding market of online and offline poker and gaming
magazines is one small fragment, out of dozens of paying markets, to find
freelance work. The Internet has spawned many online writing opportunities,
such as blogging, writing for poker and gaming websites, self-publishing, and
writing SEO articles for companies and affiliates. And “poker
writing” is more than writing about the games of poker. Poker writing
encompasses the influences of poker, such as entertainment, technology,
psychology, law, lifestyle, money, travel, and so on. Writing about poker and
gaming, along with their influences on society, is limitless.
My
research and interviews with the pros revealed that many freelance poker
writers make money in this industry by writing on diverse subjects for diverse
markets and clients, both online and offline, all related (or slightly related)
to topics, subjects and influences of poker and other legalized gaming.
Many successful freelance writers tap into an arsenal of online and offline
media outlets to sell their work, not just to poker and gaming magazines. Their
recipe for success is simple: they write varied topics related to poker and
gaming that don’t just fit into a specific poker magazine, but also fit
(with some reslanting) into many other non-poker magazines and media outlets
(i.e. trade magazines, regional magazines, newsletters, tourism guides,
newspapers, websites, blogs, ebooks, etc.) that cover varied subjects (such as
gambling, gaming, professional sports, sports betting, travel, lifestyle,
women’s issues, money, finance, real estate, hobbies, and so on).
This is the case with freelance writer Nora Cheyenne, who said:
“Generally, the best paying projects are those that require writing about
all aspects of a venue. This includes the gambling, hotel, dining options,
activities other than gaming in the area, shows, concerts as well as poker as a
separate entity.”
Later we will talk more with Nora Cheyenne, and
you will meet other freelance writers who broke into the business. In later
chapters you will discover how to find writing opportunities, multiply your
sales, and maximize your income.
Writers ask me how easy or how
difficult is it to break in as a freelance poker writer. There is no right
answer. Success depends on you, the writer. It depends on
your....
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The following is
an excerpt from my book, FREELANCE POKER WRITING: How to Make Money Writing
for the Gaming Industry © 2006 Brian Konradt
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