What Writers Need to Know About Video Publishing

During the fourteen years I have worked on the Internet, one constant remains, change. How well one adapts to it and can creatively consider newer technology makes a difference in job stability and income, and this includes the present and future of video publishing.

While you may have taken on a vow of poverty when you chose to major in journalism or take up freelance writing, as a writer you may want to consider video publishing to increase your audience reach. In fact, such consideration may greatly impact your destiny with words.

Many writers are not visual creatures and hold near contempt for amateur video publishing. If television and movies are far removed from books then YouTube slime coats the bottom of the barrel.

Further, writers as a whole are skeptical of change. After all, if Zinsser or Strunk didn't discuss it, no matter that Strunk left this un-stylish earth before television, let alone video publishing, entered the home, it just isn't right.

Current attitudes towards video publishing are somewhat reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, when real writers, particularly journalists and reporters, criticized online prose and journalism. Online media in its newness and flexibility was considered by many as illegitimate, as video publishing is today, in that it broke too many conventional style rules.

Today, style guides are adapting. The NY Times owns About.com and online journalism is a way of life for many reporters, and readers for that matter.

So, what about video publishing, is the future similar, and what does it mean to the informed writer of today?

Video Publishing Industry Needs Writers

Freelance writing opportunities are sure to result with advances in video publishing. Competition will sharply intensify and video promotion will be evermore critical. Prospects for writers in the video publishing industry include scriptwriting, marketing copy, tutorial development, and complimentary content, such as Web copywriting and training materials.