tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16157167520069197942024-03-13T05:18:01.412-07:00The Constant WriterThe musings of an emerging freelance writerTheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-82294628503176623692013-06-26T07:02:00.001-07:002014-05-19T06:06:16.746-07:00Update!Hi guys,<br />
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I haven't had much time to update the blog over the past few months due to work demands, but if you are searching for a content writer, please don't hesitate to contact me through the contact form. Strangely enough, money is a great motivator for getting writing done!<br />
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Signing out for now.TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-40369820866569496162013-06-26T06:57:00.002-07:002013-06-27T08:47:19.478-07:00Constant Content review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.constantcontent.com/" target="_blank">Constantcontent</a> is a little like a market for articles. You, the writer get to set up a profile and submit articles to be listed on your profile. The submission process involves Constantcontent editors reviewing your article for typos, grammar and overall article cohesiveness. It can take an article or two to get used to the house style. You may have to resubmit your early articles once or twice with the help of feedback from the editors. </div>
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Constant Content offers a number of advantages over other article writing websites, the main one being you can set your own prices. One disadvantage is closely tied to this advantage, in that if everyone sets their prices for their articles a lot of writers soon try undercutting their competition by lowering their article prices. If a client wants to buy an article they will in all likelihood choose the cheaper content over something that may appear identical in terms of quality. This practice is only useful in the short term, in the long term it leads clients to expect reduced prices for articles, driving prices down to what you might expect to earn on a website like Textbroker. That's not good. Luckily, Constantcontent seem to be aware of this danger. They offer guidelines on how to competitively price your articles while not underselling yourself. </div>
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Once your article is given the all clear it is available for clients to see on your profile. Here comes the second disadvantage, you don't write to order, instead you write what you hope will be bought. It can be difficult to judge what will be a popular topic and what will remain gathering cobwebs in your author profile until the internet itself falls apart. </div>
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There is a fairly active community forum attached to the website where new members can find a wealth of advice by going back through the threads. It's a good idea to look through these forums before uploading any articles. It helped me a lot because I avoided a lot of the beginner mistakes people often make. </div>
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Constant Content is a great way to earn money for your writing, but it is hard to find the best approach to it. A while ago, I hadn't written an article for two months or so but made a sale out of the blue. I got an email announcing I would be receiving 30 Euro into my paypal within the month. That's a nice new message to find in your inbox. It's just a pity you can't guarantee each article will be sold. </div>
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TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-76291089671789513272013-06-03T16:00:00.002-07:002013-06-03T16:00:51.705-07:00Postponed Constent Contant reviewSo, I had written out a full review of Constant Content and then my laptop battery died. Please enjoy this picture of two sinister monkey as a place holder until I rewrite the review. <br />
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<br />TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-50418512953667411842013-04-16T12:21:00.001-07:002013-04-19T02:07:51.862-07:00Work at home with Clickworker: a review <a href="http://www.clickworker.com/" target="_blank">Clickworker</a> is very different to Textbroker. For starters it seems to be run by a German company and when you google the website, the subtitle that comes after the title is human grid. Think about that for a second. A human grid, that's us, the writers. Writers in a great big grid writing tiny articles for corporations. <br />
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It's not as bad as it sounds actually. It is, once again, an SEO content provider. Clickworker essentially mediates between the big boys like Groupon and the little guys like us. <br />
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There are often plenty of jobs available, but they tend to get repetitive very fast as they are often from the same batch. The last time I did a good bit of work there, it was on short 250 word Groupon articles. You are provided with keywords that have to be slickly inserted into two paragraphs extolling the virtues of whatever offer Groupon has on its daily deals. Once you've written a couple it can be very difficult not to repeat yourself. And proofreaders tend to notice that type of thing. More on proofreaders later.<br />
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At the moment, there are no jobs available. You can make five Euro if you refer a friend and they earn ten Euro, but other than that it shows a blank list for me. Your experience will differ based on the language you speak. Clickworker often has writing jobs in Italian, French and German among other European languages. Every job you complete adds to your overall Clickworker percentage. If your articles are picked up for errors in grammar or spelling too often, then your percentage will decrease. If it goes below a certain point, you won't be eligible for the jobs that pay the most.<br />
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If you passed the proofreader assessment, you can also proofread the articles of your fellow clickworkers. As far as I can remember this pays about 50 cent per 250 word article. It's up to you whether you think this is worth your while. One disadvantage of this system is that personal opinions frequently sneak into the proofreader's work. One day, I had a proofreader who frequently marked me down for style issues. I had to email the support team who agreed I shouldn't have been marked down and helped to resolve the matter. But it was pretty frustrating and to be honest, it kind of soured me on this Clickworker.<br />
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As I said, you can earn 50 cent or so for proofreading 250 word articles. When it comes to the actual writing of articles, looking over my work history, each 250 word article I completed earned me a sum of 2.20 Euro. My 300 word articles netted me 3.00 Euro. Sometimes there are longer articles available, like once I found an SEO article on the various problems that can occur on a flight, that one netted me just under 9.00 Euro, and a very complimentary comment from the proofreader about my writing! Which was totally worth at least 2.00 Euro. Compliment a writer on their writing and watch their face light up with joy.<br />
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<br />TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-48564070226195235522013-02-15T12:25:00.002-08:002013-02-15T12:26:32.594-08:00Writing from the heartFor many writers, especially those new to writing, every word you create feels like an extension of yourself. Those words feel important, like have some mythical quality, it often feels like might reveal something about you that nobody knows. And that's fine once you decide you aren't going to show anybody your work. This is a phase almost every writer goes through, and for many this stage occurs at one of the most awkward stages of life: adolescence. I have piles of awful poetry and stories, written in my formative years, hidden away.<br />
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It's at this point that you must learn to tread the line between writing for yourself and writing for others. You don't want to throw your soul away at the first sign of money and write things that go against your personal beliefs. Doing that is the first step to burning yourself out. On the other hand, you will get nowhere writing love poetry dedicated to your aging cat in rhyming pentameter for the local newspaper. As with anything you do in life, you need to find the right balance. In the case of writing, it is in that special place where you enjoy what you're writing just as much as your readers enjoy reading it. It can take a while to get there, but when you arrive, it will feel great.<br />
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<br />TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-33434900434279706002013-02-06T13:57:00.000-08:002013-02-07T09:33:55.692-08:00Textbroker reviewIf you have spent any time in the Online freelance writing business, you are sure to have heard about <a href="http://www.textbroker.co.uk/" target="_blank">Textbroker</a>, although, what you may have heard about the site certainly varies from forum to forum. It is often referred to as a content mill.<br />
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For anyone who isn't sure what exactly that entails- think of a water mill, as seen in the pretty pastoral image above, then replace the water with content. Yeah, it's not a pretty image, because instead of whirling cogs and wheels you have writers furiously pumping out content.<br />
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I see Textbroker as one of those places where you can earn a little beer money without having to put in too much effort. But if you want to make enough money to pay bills, you are going to have to do a little sweating.<br />
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As with a lot of low paid work, there is a danger that you will focus all your attention on making sure you are earning minimum wage, or enough to be able to say, I bought this (insert product here) with the money I made writing on the Internet! Textbroker is like a lot of minimum wage jobs in that it requires a lot of effort to make your money. And by the time you finish working for the day, you'll be too tired to do any other writing.<br />
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Level 4 writers earn the princely sum of 1.4 cent a word<br />
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When you sign in, you are presented with the job board where you find article assignments. When you see an article that doesn't numb your brain with the inanity of its subject matter, you have the choice to claim it for 10 minutes and read the requirements set out by the client. If you choose not to do the job, you can simply click back to the job list.<br />
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If you pick the job, you have a time frame set by the client in which you have to complete it. These are usually a day or two days long. As you can only claim one article at a time, you have plenty of time to write it. After you complete the article, the client has three days to accept it or ask for a revision. They cannot reject it until they have asked for a revision at least once.<br />
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And what do you do when a client asks for a revision? It depends on their revision request. If it's so extensive that it would require a complete rewrite of the article, you have to ask yourself is it really worth it. If it isn't you can cancel the process and send the article back into the writer pool for another writer to take a try at it.<br />
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Once the client accepts the article, you are paid. Textbroker pays out every Friday into your Paypal. The Textbroker editors then rate your article on their 1-5 system. The cumulative ratings of your articles determines which level you will be writing at in the future. They sometimes leave comments that help you improve your writing. Or highlights their obsession with commas.<br />
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Once you are signed up, Textbroker is a hand way to make some quick cash. If you have a fast typing rate and an ability to pump out 500 word article after article on stimulating topics like Wall Bracket or Stand: What's Best for Your Flatscreen TV, then this is probably your dream job. For the rest of us, it can really sap your love of writing.<br />
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<br />TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-76436661521861084012013-02-04T05:57:00.003-08:002013-02-07T02:07:28.589-08:00Making money as a writer: short stories How do you make money by writing? What are you supposed to write? I suppose the easy answer is to write a New York Times Bestseller. But that's easier said than done, right? There's no harm in having it as a goal and working towards that goal, but it's a good idea to make some smaller more achievable writing goals along the way. Over the next few posts I'll be talking about way to make that swag, that moolah (Dollars, Euros, Pounds, whatever you call it, it does the same thing the world over) with your words.<br />
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This is a tough market to break into. As with all markets there is a sliding scale of pay rates: magazines like the New Yorker pay a months rent or more for a story, while many webzines pay nothing. If you write short stories, a good directory to find stats on a huge variety of magazines is <a href="https://duotrope.com/" target="_blank">Duotropes Digest.</a> You can search by pay rate, genre, and story length as well as other parameters. <br />
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As with any writing job, the key is being able to write grammatically sound sentences and perseverance. You will be rejected. The trauma of your teenage years is nothing compared to the countless rejections you will receive. Because so many rejections are sent out, most magazines employ a standard rejection. When editors receive more promising stories that they are still going to reject, they often add a personal touch to encourage you to submit in the future. A strange thing happens, where you begin analysing your rejections for even the slightest hint of a human behind the email. In the past, when the Internet was still a science fiction fantasy, writers use their rejection slips to devious ends. Some even papered their bathrooms with the slips!<br />
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A good idea is to join a writer's group. You can support each other when you get rejected, and help each other to improve your writing skills. You'll also make some writer friends who you can discuss literary gossip with!TheConstantWriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12714088346106703247noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1615716752006919794.post-83730534302311884002013-02-03T08:46:00.002-08:002013-02-03T08:46:39.823-08:00Obligatory first postHi, welcome to my blog and my very first post.<br />
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I'm going to be using this to document my online writing career as I thought it would be a cool way to keep myself accountable. I'll be posting reviews of the different sites I use to sell articles, and generally musing on ways to make money on the internet by selling your words. From my research on how to earn money by writing articles online, I found a lot of websites guaranteeing that you can easily make, $5,000 a week by writing for a penny a word. I have a feeling the people who write things like that would do their very best to sell coal to Blackpool too! In saying that, I'm sure you can make quite a comfortable income from writing online and I hope to find out how. <br />
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I've been content writing for a few months now, but I've been writing in other areas for much longer. Here's the skinny on my past, present and future writing ventures:<br />
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<li>I've just started my PhD </li>
<li>I have one trunked novel </li>
<li>I have published academic articles and will continue to do so.</li>
<li>I have published short stories and continue to write them.</li>
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When you add content writing to the list, you can see that it adds up to a lot of writing! So this blog will be a place to relax and take things easy. I'm looking forward to meeting other writers on here, so drop me a line in the comments and tell me about your online endeavors. What sites should I watch out for? And which ones treat their writers well? <br />
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