One of the greatest joys of being a freelance copywriter is that no two days are the same. You might pour the morning’s first cup of coffee with the intention of writing a particular article, before a completely different journalism feature takes priority. It’s easy to find yourself juggling half a dozen copywriting assignments over the course of a day, particularly when you factor in emails and phone calls.

While G75 Media preserves the confidentiality of our copywriting clients, it’s no secret that we work across several unrelated industries. Yesterday, for instance, we produced editorial content for four companies in very different sectors:

• A national property magazine
• An international web hosting company
• An Edinburgh-based social media startup
• A UK-wide group of opticians.

Optometry isn’t listed on the What We Do page of this site, but we’ve specialised in optometry content production since 2009. We regularly accept copywriter roles on behalf of app developers and software startups, too. Some of these home-grown tech firms have gone on to become well-known brands.

You might think juggling copywriting projects for several accounts would be confusing, but it’s actually liberating. It’s human nature to switch between tasks, and few of us are suited to doing one thing for hours on end. Moving between topics and industries over the course of a day keeps a copywriter’s mind alert and focused. By contrast, spending eight or nine hours working on a single editorial article usually leads to fatigue. And with more copywriting clients on G75 Media’s books than we’ve ever had before, our working days are likely to remain richly varied and unpredictable…