I wanna know how to start to become a freelance writer? Any suggestions please.?!

I wanna know how to start to become a freelance writer? Any suggestions please.?

I want to start out to become one cause I am good with words. Help please from any freelancers or where to start. Thanks!

There are literally hundreds of books about free-lance writing. Most of them are good. It takes so much effort to write even a bad book that almost no one would do so unless they had some useful experiences and insights. So go to a book store, or a library, and search under 'authorship'. Robert Bly is a useful writer about authorship, but there are so many others.

A good step is to know what sorts of things you might wish to write. It helps a lot if you reflect on what you really have most liked to read, and on what you 'know' as you should always 'write what you know'.

There are only a few types of articles written by free-lance writers. These include how to articles, how things work articles, profiles (of famous or interesting people) interviews, roundtables (where you interview several people and let them express diverse opinions abouty a topic, inspirational articles, humorous articles, and opinion pieces.

There is a very important hierarchy of publications for free-lance articles. Start with local weekly newspapers, move on to local and regional dailies, then regional magazines, then national newspapers, then national magazines. Use any success at any level to make your pitch at the next. That is, if you can crack your local weekly, you can say "the author writes for the XYZ Gazette". This gives you some credibility.

The suggestion about looking in the Annual books describing publications and their needs is right on. You must do that, and you must use this year's guide to get accurate information about the names of the editors and needs of the publications.

However, such a Guide will NOT tell you "everything you have to know". If you want to learn what YOU have to know, then start reading everything about authorship that interests you, start looking at every magazine article as an object-lesson to analyse, and most important, start writing and collecting the inevitable rejection slips. These will contain the most valuable lessons you can learn.