Writing Greeting Cards Freelance

Writing greeting cards freelance provides writers with a supplemental income. Writers provide more than just rhyming verses for greeting cards, an industry that’s grown exponentially since the mid-1980s.

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Writing greeting cards freelance is about providing contemporary prose, modern humor and conversational messages that fill every greeting card need. Greeting cards are available for kids, for teens and for adults. Greeting cards are created for a variety of occasions including, but not limited to every major holiday, birthday, congratulations, birth of a baby, engagements, marriages, divorces, getting jobs, losing a job, moving and arriving. If it’s an occasion, there’s likely a greeting card for it.

Greeting card writers can average $35 to $150 per verse (whether it’s rhyming verse, prose or just a one line sentence). The pay is based on experience, company purchasing and more. Greeting card companies usually purchase card verses in bulk (10 or more) at a time, rather than just buying them individually.

If you want to get started writing freelance greeting cards, you need to know what types of cards there are to write. Not every genre of card will appeal to you, but since you can write a greeting card anywhere, keep these genres in mind.

The traditional greeting card is exactly what it sounds like. Traditional cards are often written in versed poetry with four, eight, twelve or sixteen lines. Typically, greeting card companies use in house staff for these types of greeting cards, but freelance writers may find some opportunities in this area.

Sample: Warm Birthday Wishes Enjoy your day and do the things that make you happy. Have a Great Birthday!

Conversational prose cards are written exactly as they sound. They are sentences or paragraphs written in straight-forward prose. This is a very active area for freelance writers to break into the greeting card business.

Sample: My daughter you are my muse. You inspire me every day to achieve greatness, whether I am baking a cake, taking you to school or helping you with your homework. I love you.

Humor cards are purchased for a variety of occasions. Humor cards are typically best sellers for all occasions. The humor can be dry, witty, teasing or cutting edge.

Sample: I have a real way with words. Sometimes my words are stupid. I'm sorry.

Alternative card writing tackles those types of cards for different, non-standard occasions. Looking for a greeting card for someone who has stopped smoking? Need a card for someone who just got laid off? Want a card celebrating a single parent or a divorce? These are all topics for the alternative card business and they continue to grow in popularity.

Sample: Don't look it as losing your job so much as gaining free time. What's better than a gift of time?

The Writer’s Market, a publication of Writer's Digest Magazine, features an entire section on greeting card companies, how to obtain submission guidelines and more. The first step to submitting your greeting card ideas is to contact the greeting card companies for their submission guidelines.

• Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.
• Designer Greetings
• Gallant Greetings
• Moonlighting Cards
• Recycled Paper Greetings

Although their slogans may not appeal to everyone, Ephemera, Inc. is a good market to consider if your work is more adult oriented.

A freelance writer should always research the industry they are interested in writing for. You can do this by checking out the latest greeting cards in the genre you’re interested in writing as well as checking out the Greeting Card Association. Writers will benefit from the tips, information and industry statistics that the site provides.

If you are interested in practice writing greeting cards, buy a set of blank cards and create your own greeting cards for upcoming occasions. Keep a list of what you've written and take note of the response you get for your homemade creations, particularly the humorous ones.

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