A career as a health writer

Not everyone who criticises what we write is envious. And not everyone who gives feedback is criticising your writing.

FOMO is the ‘fear of missing out’ and is commonly associated with our compulsive need to check and re-check social media and online media. Basically, we seek to stay informed at all times.

Is cheap medical writing outsourcing a threat to your career, and do cheapered writers deliver the same quality content as professionals?

Since I’ve been running a small health writing business I’ve found I needed to become a Jack of all trades, a master at weaving multiple competing activities into a seamless whole.

Here are 3 reasons WHY you need to make your mental health a priority if you are going to survive as a writer.

Setting freelance rates. Quoting on projects. Charging for freelance work for writing assignments. These are the toughest aspects of running a freelance medical writing business.

Have you ever asked yourself how you see your medical writing business growing over the next 2, 5 and 10 years?

There are many decisions to be made and it can be hard to be sure which is the right way to go. But keeping faith with yourself, boosts your self-confidence and can help keep your attitude positive.

Email newsletter marketing is a vital business tool for your clients, but if you’re trying to build a professional health writing business, you need to have an email list as well.

LinkedIn is my favourite social network – more so than Twitter, Instagram for business – and even Facebook.

Is it time you raised your prices? The cost of living keeps rising. You’ve got new expenses, such as PayPal fees, credit card facility fees and software subscriptions. Your competitors’ prices are rising too. So it’s time.

Whether you’re an expert or are just starting out, there are certain medical writing skills and attributes that great health writers need.

If only I’d read this medical writer career description when I was a student, studying journalism at university. It’s highly likely I’d have been inspired to forge my medical writing career immediately.

Describing what your medical writing business does in 20-30 seconds harder than it seems.

What type of health writer do you want to be, and do you already have a niche?