This document provides information and advice for becoming a writer. It discusses various writing careers such as journalist, author, blogger. It outlines the benefits of writing like flexible work and income potential. It also gives tips for getting started like writing daily, submitting work, and never giving up. The document encourages readers to write about their interests and experiences. It provides guidance on writing opinion pieces and emphasizes including key details like news, context and impact in the first few paragraphs. The author profiles her own background as a journalist and invites readers to submit articles to her publication.

1. FROM HEARING TO PUBLISHING
By: Damayanti
Analisa’s Journalist

2. Writing…………………………………?
• Writing is thinking
• Writing is a process
• Writing is challenging
• Writing is great hobby
• Writing is easy!

3. Benefit of writing
Being a writer comes with perks, like working
independently, endless potential for income,
and the fulfillment of producing something
creative and unique. Writers work in various
roles and industries, from print publishing to
medical and technical manual writing. While the
various roles are different, the work is mentally
laborious rather than physically exerting.

4. Prospect of Writing Career-1
• Journalist
• Public Relation
• Analyst
• Author
• Novelist
• Advertising (creative)
• Screen writer

5. Prospect of Writing Career-2
• Songwriter (Lyricist)
• Freelance short fiction writer
• Legacy writer (write people’s bios and family
histories)
• Ghostwriter
• Travel writer
• Article writer
• Columnist

6. Prospect of Writing Career-3
• Video game writer (includes
storytelling/fiction)
• Personal poet (write personalized poems for
wedding, funeral, childbirths, etc)
• Playwright
• Blogger
• etc

7. Ask yourself these questions
• Do I have family or relation who needs to
promote his/her business to be publish?
• Do I need portfolio for applying scholarship or
get promotion?
• Do I need extra money?
• Do I need to be popular?
• Do I need to be smart and intelligent
• Do I responsible for people around me?

8. If you answer yes, you need to be a
writer
• You could do that. You even have great
potential to get extra income from writing
• How can you make money?
Easy, from your writing. Be a professional
writer and try as much as you can. Until you
make writing as your hobby, then you see the
result!

9. You can start write your daily
inspiration

10. You can start write brand or branding
product or service

11. You can start write opinion

12. You can start write tips

13. You can start write events

14. How to become writer
• Make sure that you want to be a writer
• Read many books
• Write as often as possible
• Submit them one by one
• Never give up
• Write what you are interested in reading
about
• Try to expand your vocabulary

15. How to Write an Op-Ed Article-1
• Track the news and jump at opportunities
• Limit the article to 750 word
• Make a single point well
• Put your main point on the top
• Offer specific recommendation
• Showing is better than discussing
• Embrace your personal voice
• Pay up your personal connection to readers

16. How to Write an Opinion Article-2
• Use short sentences and paragraphs
• Avoid jargon
• Use the active voice
• Avoid tedious rebuttals
• Acknowledge the other side
• Make your ending a winner
• Relax and have fun

17. How to Write an Opinion Article-3
• Don’t worry about the headline
• Offer graphics
• How to submit an article
• Where to submit the article

18. HIGH FIVE
New Way of Thinking: The High Five
• News
• Context
• Scope
• Edge
• Impact

19. • Reporting and writing are connected. You
can't write what you don't know.
• Think of the High Five as a checklist. The
idea is to make you:
–think about the stories you report;
–ask questions about why the news
occurred and where it's leading;
–seek details that will help you tell news
with precision; and
–raise questions that your readers may
want answered.

20. GET TO IT
• Get these five elements into the top five or six
paragraphs:
–News: What happened, or what is
happening?
–Context: What is the background for the
event or trend?

21. –Scope: What is the magnitude of the
event? How many people are affected?
• Is this local event part of a larger,
national set of events?
• Is there a local focus to this larger,
national event?
• Think numbers.
–Edge: Where is the news leading? What
happens next?
• What is the time element?
• What is the next development?

22. –Impact: So what? How does the news
affect anything?
• Why should the reader care?
• A good quote can often be an impact.

23. Remember, the elements must appear in the
first five to six paragraphs.
–News must be in the lead.
–Other elements can appear in any order.
–Some elements can overlap.
–The High Five should be on the first page
(OK, a line may spill over).

24. Skills you need to become a journalist
• Project management
• Event planning
• IT skills
Working with social media (blogs, FB, Twitter,
Youtube, Flickr)
Working with the website and making them
more creative
• Adding in teasers and embedding video
• Managing
• Handling data
excel, statistic

25. Now, start becoming a writer in
Jelasberita.com-1
Term condition
- At now JB can’t pay for the writer but you
could send your article without any limitations
- Even if you want to promote your products or
service, JB’s team will check and will put it on
appropriately
- JB also ask and invite you to become a
journalist. If you keen and commit become
part of JB, they will interview you.

26. Remember
• Even if you or maybe someday your relations
don’t know how to write but need publish
information to the media, we could help you.
• Just send email to me:
damayanti_sinaga@yahoo.co.id
Or
• Telp : +62 812 6099 2275 ; +62 61 – 7362934
Fax : +62 61 – 7362934
• email : redaksi@jelasberita.com ;
jelasberita.com@gmail.com

27. About the author/presenter
Damayanti is Analisa’s Journalist. She manage or
covering Economic and Finance issues. She
started being a journalist since 2013. Before turn
to be a journalist, she worked as Information and
Technology Teacher. Her great desire for
education and science push her to make books
and article that benefits for society. She get 2nd
rank for journalistic competition that held by
Angkasa Pura II and Bursa Efek Indonesia. She
aso get many awards from other competitions.