Comments on: Freelance Writing Jobs for Thursday, May 8, 2008

By: Maryam

Maryam — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:43:01 +0000

the reasoning behind it was that it was in bulk, as in i put ten articles in one file instead of ten separate ones….granted it was so boring work i put it off a long time ( 10 articles on restaurants and whatever else)
You might be right, those things don’t give a guaranteee… It isn’t that big a deal, it was 250 words each thing just rewording info about attractions and restaurants.
i learned that the hard way. i used to work for a marketing company for a fixed fee and working nine hours a day, which didn’t really work for me.
I am working for on demand, i like that each article is accepted or not and you see what is happening.
Eventually i want to have more higher paying jobs with more interesting content, web content writing is pretty mindless..
Everyone is right about trying to protect yourse

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:25:44 +0000

hmmm… I’m wondering if the 50 articles were for a company I know. They wanted me to write 50 articles based on an e-book they have. Is that it? I had a bad experience with them too, although I only wrote 5 pieces. Now I’m wondering if they’re the same people and they’re just going around gathering material.

By: Kasey

Kasey — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:19:29 +0000

Adding to what Adam said: the service Copyscape takes text and searches the web for instances of plagiarism.

It’s useful for those who want to check out work they’ve contracted or see if their samples have been stolen. It provides a full report on stolen phrases and the percentage of copied material. It has a small fee for each search, but it is well worth it.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:27:17 +0000

these tips have been helpful. I have not had much luck applying to many of these jobs, especially craigslist, although I am a published author (books and magazine articles), so if anyone can suggest some other websites/clients, I would be grateful. I am already registered on demand studios and have done a few articles for them. I keep returning to this list though in the hopes that I do land something!

By: Jodee

Jodee — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:48:37 +0000

@ Erika K: You’re welcome….Hope you get hired!

By: Erika K

Erika K — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:46:04 +0000

Jodee,

Thanks for the posts about About.com. I didn’t see the right kind of topic from your list at first, but when I went to the available topics site, I saw (for the first time in nearly two years) a topic I could apply for with authority!

By: Jodee

Jodee — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:44:29 +0000

@ Shery and Gwynita: You’re welcome!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:26:11 +0000

@ Maryam: you might want to try googling some of your more unique phrases from those 50 articles. I wouldn’t be surprised if what you wrote shows up somewhere, under someone else’s name.

By: Gwynita

Gwynita — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:56:04 +0000

This is a great list of jobs! You can also apply for positions with Writers Research Group. I’m a new freelance writer there and I write how-to articles for $10 each (minimum 250 words). Their website is http://www.writersresearchgroup.com.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:44:44 +0000

I’m adding my thanks to the chorus. I check out the job list here every day. Sometimes there’s something for me, sometimes there isn’t. But it’s consistently been my best source of potential jobs for the past several months. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You save me a lot of time.