Paying Sites for Article Writing – Know the Top Sites

Article writing has slowly grown its own feet in the online world. A lot of people are making fast cash out of their published articles. There are currently hundreds of websites that pay hefty amounts of money for various articles in the World Wide Web. If you are a new writer, it is definitely an advantage to know the different paying sites for article writing and how well they fair when compared with one another. You may have an asking price in mind, but surely you would want to know if there is a website that can offer you more. Read more »

AOL Gets Into the Content Game With Seed.com

Writers and photographers have a new place to search for assignments and to submit their work in hopes of acceptance. Seed.com (http://www.seed.com) is a content website put out be AOL.

I signed up for Seed just to check it out. The process was quick and simple. They didn’t even make me do a writing test. Publishers’ assingments are listed in the member section and you can claim the ones you want to write (or photograph). The payments for articles are quite a bit better than other content sites that I know of, but the requirements for the articles are also much more stringent.

This makes sense, of course!  Higher pay for quality work.

Each writing project can be accepted by an infinite number of writers. All submissions for the project in before the submission deadline are then reviewed by the publisher and editors for the site itself, and a decision about which article to accept is made. Only that person makes the money. If your article is not accepted, it appears that it reverts to you and you can do whatever you want with it.

If I had more time, I would give Seed.com a serious try.

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (The Renegade Writer’s Freelance Writing series) (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly
Keep query letters to one page. Never call an editor. Face-to-face interviews take up too much time. According to sassy authors Formichelli and Burrell, such standard rules about freelance writing ought to be tossed in the wastebasket with last year’s self-addressed-stamped-envelopes. So why do so many writers stick to the rules? “Bugaboos abound because freelance writers work largely on their own,” the authors explain, and such isolation makes it hard to lear (more…)

Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids (Paperback)

Review
Christina Katz takes a stay-at-home-mom and turns her into a dragon-slayer with all the tools to make a writing career not just feasible, but downright practical. My copy of this book is wrought with notes, dog-eared pages, and highlighted resources, earning it a place on my reference shelf. — C. Hope Clark, author of The Shy Writer (Book Locker, 2004)Like taking a writing class at your neighborhood playground–Writer Mama is a must-have resource that speaks to the (more…)

Getting Started as a Freelance Writer, Expanded Edition (Culture Tools) (Paperback)

This expanded edition goes beyond advice on making a living as a business writer to include the more creative forms of writing. There are new chapters on writing and selling poems, short stories, novels, and essays, plus a new section on cartooning. Existing chapters have been brought up to date. You learn to start, run, and build a freelance writing business doing whatever type of writing you prefer.

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The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less (Paperback)

From Booklist
In this era of entrepreneurialism, Atlanta freelancer Bowerman shows those timid (but talented) souls how almost anyone can forge ahead as an independent writer. His advice is good, couched in brassy prose that is easy to read. He anticipates every conceivable question and issue, including typical charges, marketing oneself, types of available work, and dealing with deadbeats. There are great common-sense tips, too, in the psychology of handling clients who think they (more…)

Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How to Win Top Writing Assignments (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly
Beginning with plenty of realistic words of caution, veteran freelancer Glazer (Outwitting Writer?s Block and Other Problems of the Pen; Words You Thought You Knew) provides a practical guide for aspiring writers who want to earn a living doing what they love. Glatzer takes readers through the must-do basics?from sending clean, spell-checked cover letters to avoiding harassing busy editors?then delves into the processes of generating ideas, pitching, landin (more…)