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Growing up I wanted to be a writer, not a journalist, but a writer of thousands and thousands of books. Big dreams for a little child, and eventually those dreams became more and more distant. Now I am 27 years old, and have decided that I still want to be a writer. I realize however, in order to become well known you must start small. I have taken classes on creative writing, business writing, academic writing, and technical writing, learning as much as I can. I have went to seminars and book signings, so that I could learn more and more about what I want to do when I finally retire from the Air Force.
Doing some research for some part-time work, because what I make is not enough in this day and age, I came across some ads for Freelancers and Proofreaders. I figured what better way to make a start then do some freelancing. These jobs were not exactly what they seemed. Most of them were paying a $1 to $2 for a 500 to 1000 word article on something. Now I might not be very savvy in the business world, but I would think that I could get paid more for that if I went out on my own. What really interested me is that most of the posters were not even sure as to what the article should be about.
It brought more and more questions that I know I will need to research to find the answers to. I will not stop till I find out why there are so many jobs for a freelancer, but the job itself pays so little. I have heard of outsourcing, but to outsource a job that requires a precision and perfection to any language should be worth a lot more than one single dollar. I also know that even though I type 80wpm, there is no way I would be able to produce 5 to 10 articles a day at 1000 to 2000 words each. I am not superhuman, and frankly I don’t think I have enough knowledge or spare time in my day to do research for different topics and put out a great piece of literature work. Where are these superhuman freelancers, and do you think they can teach me how to become one of them?
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If enough of us refuse to write for nothing, then perhaps they will get the message. Offering fees that low will not get anyone any quality work. I know it is tempting to take some of those jobs but you can do better with places like this one and some of the other pay per page view sites. (Since AV might consider it spam, I will not name them here, but will in private).
in the Sunday Sun, Brisbane Australia when I was living there. Every other week I would see my letter with partial cutting of script from it, it was never the way I wrote it but my name was underneath. Years later I
signed up with the Writing School in 1988 and paid in full for my course
which was done by mail. From the start my teacher told me that I will be a writer. I started writing to Austral Asian Post Magazine then owned by
Kerry Packer and earned money by writing to LETTERS OF THE EDITOR Post
Magazine. They paid me between $5.00 $10.00 to $20.00 after publication
of the article. None of the other columns except that one from Post paid anything. Things happened and the magazine went broke. I came and
got married in the Philippines and the old management of the Writing School dumped me withholding all my money. It happened that they went broke also and their Narrabeen, Sydney headquarters were closed down. I
waited until the Writing School resurfaced on the internet and I found
it was sold to a group of former students who transferred it to Ferney
Grove in Brisbane. I made contact by identifying myself with the old
student number and was enrolled free as a life member. They gave me my
old teacher back who they managed to track down but when I finished my
course in writing, the bastard tried to fail me by not recommending me
for graduation, he tried to dump me again like he did before. I sent a
message to the Student Services asking about my diploma and complaining
of the teacher's corruption trying to fail me just because he didn't like me through my outspokenness. Student Services advised me to make a
complaint against the teacher which I did and my studies were reviewed.
The head tutor overruled the teacher's decision and gave me a Certificate in COMPREHENSIVE WRITING and she commended me because I did
my course from beginning to end without ever having to attend class at
any time and I have never had university studies in my life. I reached
second year high in my time in the nineteen sixties and still gained a
diploma that now graces my lounge room wall. 16/6/2009.
seventies writing to editorials and seeing my name in print. Those days I
even tried to become a journalist by writing about things I saw happening
in the streets with a pen and pad. Rupert Murdoch's editor of the Courier
Mail in Brisbane wouldn't give me a chance because I didn't drive a car
and though I'm expert in taking photos I don't know how to develop them.
He used those things as alibis not to give me a job. I said I would use
public transport but it wasn't acceptable so I started writing letters to editorials and sending them in by mail instead. I never kept any copies those days because I didn't know about it. That's the way to start writing first. Even the Writing School teaches that. 17/6/2009.
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