Freelance writing

[Fern]

You're charging .10 a word so for the thousand word piece you'll get $10?? How many hours of your time will you spend on this?

Those are slave wages! If you are really any good, then please don't degrade yourself by working for peanuts.

[Saving_spree]

It is a good idea but you are wasting your time and energy.. Your creativity is used for others benefit... Use it for yourself and earn money... is what I would say.

[TheMoneyMan-Leo]

If you are looking for people looking for article writers, I’ve used freelance workers from elance.com, rentacoder.com and mturk.com .

Elance and RAC…it will probably take you some time to make money there…it’s a bidding process.

Mturk you can earn the money pretty quickly but it will be a small amount and not sure how often you get paid.

Monitor these places and you just might hook up with someone who needs a lot of articles written.

Best wishes,

Leo

[Credit Girl]

I've also heard of those sites as great sources available to freelance writers. This is a great way to make side money as you can make $10-$20 an article and you work on your own terms as well.

[Snippa]

I've been a freelance writer for over 30 years, currently full-time, though that's not always been the case. You can make VERY good money at it, but as mentioned here, there is a LOT of competition.

Many people from non-English speaking countries will write a 500 word article for $1-$2. If someone just wants content and doesn't care about quality (as in proper English grammar), they'll hire them. That's a major problem with trying to find work on a lot of the bid sites.

There are online places where you can sell articles for $5 each (I buy them myself). And there are other places online where you can sell them for more, such as Demand Studios. But they're difficult to work with at times... so it's a trade-off.

Freelance magazine writing requires an entirely different level of writing. At least to write for larger publications where the REAL money is. You can write for small mags and still do well, but that's where you get into query letters and a lot more research. You have to have MUCH better skills to write for print publication than for online markets, as a rule. Not set in stone, but typically.

All in all, there is definitely money to be made. I'm living proof. I make enough to justify working from home full-time and helping to support our household. That works for me.

Dee

[AuthorErica]

I've been writing for about 20 years and my only issues with freelancing is the building business aspect. I finally figured out that answering questions well on sites that have google adwords/adsense figured in (like web answers.com) works pretty well.

Blogging is OK too. If you can find something you are passionate about, blog and then you can advertise on the blogs. Then you're in control

Freelance writing is OK but for me, I find that I am more in control when I write then draw attention to my words and use my words to send people to places where they can invest...

[Mike75]

But you've got to have the talent to write to become a freelance writer. I know people who can barely write an email to their clients. English is going down the dumps in this country

[aiyana]

Hi !
This is a good thing to make fast maney...

[jamesparker100]

yes its a good opportunity for side jobs. for writing well and result oriented then you should keep in mind some SEO rules. like keyword rich article and keyword density should be manage.

[hassell]

It really takes some time till you have got that grip over the words and that flow of thoughts out of your pen onto the paper.Freelance writers do have a good payout but after some months of effort is put in.

[justinblake]

Freelance writing has different areas to it: blogging, editing, web copywriting, academic writing, technical writing, SEO writing, etc. Choose where you are an expert at. because yep, as they say, competition is tough. I'd say web copywriting has a lot of money to it. And academic writing, too (this is a type of writing where you write thesis, dissertations, essays, and academic papers for students of any level who are either too lazy or too busy to write their own).

[MrPolarZero]

well I don't prefer doing freelancing, I think it would still be best if you are working for a single company. That will make me earn more money.

[MrPolarZero]

Well, freelance writing will still be a helpful sideline. Besides, you can make it as flexible as you want to accommodate a regular job.

[Jedward]

middle man

rather than be the writer, be the middle man. i was buying from someone who i thought was writing my articles from elance but she was outsourcing to other people at half the price and doing the same with many clients. this seemed a lot smarter than doing the writing

[victor06]

I seen a lot of freelancing writer and i seen them very successful now a days,i think most of them are from blogging but here it seem really interesting.Thanks for sharing the info it make me think to write.