Yesterday, I talked about how writing is a Tech skill. Today, we will look at the different types. There are so many but I will look at just eight.

1. Copywriting
It's a type of content writing that focuses specifically on making sales. It's the type of content you see in advertisements. This type of content persuades the audience to buy a product which could be digital or physical, submit their emails, and register for a course or an event.

2. Creative Writing
It is a form of writing that involves telling stories. Examples are poetry writing, short story writing, novel writing, etc.

3. Technical writing
The goal of this type of writing is to educate the audience on how to use a particular product. FAQs, how-to guides, and troubleshooting guides are examples of Technical content writing. In most cases, having technical skills or knowledge of coding is an advantage in the industry.

4. Ghostwriting
Here, you write a blog post or an ebook on behalf of someone but you will not receive credit for it. That is your name will not appear as the author of the ebook, rather the name of the person who hired you will be the author.

5. Scriptwriting
This is writing content for audio production like podcasts or video content like short clips, short movies, animations, etc.

6. Long-form content writing
This is writing content for e-books, blogs, etc. It's called long-form content writing because the word count is usually more than 500 words.

7. Email/Newsletter writing
I believe that you are familiar with reading emails. Many young people have this habit of checking their emails every morning. Usually, brands communicate and maintain connections with their audience via email through newsletters. The art of writing content for emails or newsletters is Newsletter/ Email content writing.

8. Social media writing
This form of writing is usually short and targeted toward the audience on social media. The social media platform is taken into consideration while writing. This is because most social media platforms have word counts. Also, the type of content that performs well varies according to social media platforms.

As I mentioned there are so many types of content writing, but they all have an aim which is to educate, inform and entertain.
Most importantly, it is geared towards achieving a business goal which could be to generate leads or get people to take certain actions.

So, which type of content writing would you like to learn?