Comments on: Fighting Freelancing’s “New Model” – A Response To James Rainey http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/fighting-freelancings-new-model-a-response-to-james-rainey/ Straight Talk About Your Writing Career Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: T.W. Anderson http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/fighting-freelancings-new-model-a-response-to-james-rainey/#comment-3371 T.W. Anderson Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:40:23 +0000 http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/?p=1601#comment-3371 I don't see it. The low-paying gigs, that is. I regularly use content sites, for example, and I've never seen one of these supposedly low-paying, lower-than-minimum-wage offers. Take my current writing experiment for example. I just released the results for Week 1 on the website, and I cleared 60 dollars an hour writing for Demand Studios and 2 other content sites. Had I stuck with Demand Studios primarily, I would have cleared 75 dollars an hour, or more. Tomorrow will be the end of Week 2. Again...I'm clearing 60 dollars an hour. Using several content sites as part of the experiment. Low paying? Hardly. Degrading? Not as far as my paychecks are concerned. As far as artistic conscience? That made me laugh. Seriously, it did. I live for one thing, and one thing only: to put food on the table for my wife and myself. I am not here to impress upon another writer or editor whether or not my work is credible or quality. As long as my clients are happy and I'm earning what I want to earn, there are no other details to be concerned with. Period. I'm not here to please Bobby Sue and Average Joe, the freelance writers who claim to be the quality control for the entire planet's worth of freelance writers. I'm not here to land an article in the New York Times (although if any of my pieces end up in such places, that's fine by me). I'm here to make money. Period. End of story. How I do that is up to me, and me alone. If that means writing 300 word blurbs about "How To Cook an Egg", despite the fact that there are 10,000 other "how to cook an egg" articles on the Interwebz, then so be it...I'll write about how to cook eggs along with all the MANY other things I write about. Honestly, I get a kick out of writers who cry about artistic integrity or the supposed lack thereof. Who cares? Do you want to make a living, or don't you? Do you want a roof over your kid's heads and food on the table? I don’t see it. The low-paying gigs, that is. I regularly use content sites, for example, and I’ve never seen one of these supposedly low-paying, lower-than-minimum-wage offers.

Take my current writing experiment for example. I just released the results for Week 1 on the website, and I cleared 60 dollars an hour writing for Demand Studios and 2 other content sites. Had I stuck with Demand Studios primarily, I would have cleared 75 dollars an hour, or more.

Tomorrow will be the end of Week 2. Again…I’m clearing 60 dollars an hour. Using several content sites as part of the experiment.

Low paying? Hardly. Degrading? Not as far as my paychecks are concerned. As far as artistic conscience? That made me laugh. Seriously, it did. I live for one thing, and one thing only: to put food on the table for my wife and myself. I am not here to impress upon another writer or editor whether or not my work is credible or quality. As long as my clients are happy and I’m earning what I want to earn, there are no other details to be concerned with. Period.

I’m not here to please Bobby Sue and Average Joe, the freelance writers who claim to be the quality control for the entire planet’s worth of freelance writers. I’m not here to land an article in the New York Times (although if any of my pieces end up in such places, that’s fine by me). I’m here to make money. Period. End of story. How I do that is up to me, and me alone. If that means writing 300 word blurbs about “How To Cook an Egg”, despite the fact that there are 10,000 other “how to cook an egg” articles on the Interwebz, then so be it…I’ll write about how to cook eggs along with all the MANY other things I write about.

Honestly, I get a kick out of writers who cry about artistic integrity or the supposed lack thereof. Who cares? Do you want to make a living, or don’t you? Do you want a roof over your kid’s heads and food on the table?

]]> By: George Angus http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/fighting-freelancings-new-model-a-response-to-james-rainey/#comment-3370 George Angus Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:31:47 +0000 http://www.getpaidtowriteonline.com/?p=1601#comment-3370 Darrell, Heh. I just read this article yesterday and left a comment over at the LA Times. Your advice here is sage, for sure. It IS tough trying to eek out a living being a freelance writer. Visions of sitting around in your pajamas while the writing dollars add up is just that - a vision. Not really based in reality. Great tips, even for those who have been doing it a while. George .-= George Angus´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TumblemooseProductions/~3/sf6L5ywv0Bk/" rel="nofollow">Netbookz! Umm, Bookflix? Aw Heck, Just Read the Post</a> =-. Darrell,

Heh. I just read this article yesterday and left a comment over at the LA Times.

Your advice here is sage, for sure. It IS tough trying to eek out a living being a freelance writer. Visions of sitting around in your pajamas while the writing dollars add up is just that – a vision. Not really based in reality.

Great tips, even for those who have been doing it a while.

George
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