Want to Become a Professional Writer in 2020? Statistics Say You Should

Writing has changed a lot over time. It’s been leveraged, weaponized, idolized, and feared at different points throughout history. We could talk about that for a whole series of blog posts. But that’s not really necessary. In order to understand what writing professionally is going to look like in the 2020s, it makes more sense to take a look back to more recent years to see how writing has been used professionally in the 1900s.

Journalism in the 1900s

The writing buzzword of the 1900s was Journalism. However, although newspaper writing, magazines, and ads were a primary mode for writers to make a killing, even last century saw technological innovation threaten the future of journalism. Things like radio, movies and television threatened the stranglehold on the dissemination of information that was once held by print media.

Writing in the 2000s

Although writing saw many innovations in the 1900s, I don’t think anybody was prepared for the incredible change that occurred in the 2000s. Having been born in the mid-90s, people of my generation have a unique look at all this. We saw it happen, but in only an uninvolved, passive way. We didn’t lose our writing jobs, because we didn’t have them. And today, now we have the…