Freelance Jobs 21st Nov

You know, just when you think you've scanned pretty much everything and found all the good links in a particular category, you bump into a priceless link. Makes you realise your earlier effort was below grade and you start all over again. That's what happened with the "Paid Publishers" post. I spent a lotta time finding links yesterday and today I find there are even more and better publishers than the ones I posted. So what am I supposed to do? Simple - I gave up on the post and moved on.
Someday, when I have a bad case of Writers block, I might revisit the post and update the links. But right now, there's no block. In fact, the posts are flowing out faster than I can write them.


"You live in San Francisco, California. Your dog, Rascal, has been depressed ever since his playmate, a vivacious beagle named Patches, moved away. You've tried all the tricks to cheer him up, everything from ordering his favorite pizza to romps at the beach, all with no luck. He's still moping around, making frequent trips to stare out the kitchen window at Patches' former backyard.

You've decided to seek professional help and want to locate a good dog psychologist. But how do you find one? Click on the Start button to discover the secrets of successful searching. " - www.learnthenet.com

Sorry if I quoted their entire friggin page. No way to explain it without. It's really priceless. Magnificient marketing. I should be taking web content writing lessons from them.

Today's freelance jobs:

Freelance proofreaders
Paranormal / Conspiracy writers
Coastal issues / news writer ( California )
Business plan writer needed
Looking for entertainment writers
Mortgage copywriting help wanted

Get paid to write
Comment: Be careful, huh? When someone promises to pay you the sky and the earth and everything in between....

Call for sarcastic / humorous / satirical articles
Lifestyle and fashion articles wanted

Publishing company seeks ghost writers
Comment: I knew I should have written that book that I had in my head when I was in college. They're paying $15K for a 250 page book. Big money.

Write a book in under 28 days flat!

Creative writers needed
Comment: I'm not really sure I understand what they want, but they seem sincere, and it's a genuine gig. I just hope they understand what they want...

Need Articles? Part II - Non Paying Publishers

Yesterday I listed a ton of publishers who need articles and pay for them. Even though that post is still to be updated with a lot more publishers ( if you know any, please add them in the comments ), I'm moving on to publishers who provide bylines, a link to the freelance writer's site, chocolates, fame and miscellaneous freebies, points and goodies, but not cold hard cash. While this may seem less attractive, it all adds up in the end, especially if you have a good site. So the resources in this post include not only the publishers who need articles, but won't pay for them, but also a list of resources to help you - A freelance writer who knows squat about websites - build and monetize a great site.

Comprehensive list of publishers who need articles :

• StrangeHorizons - Weekly web-based magazine of and about speculative fiction.
  
• EscapePod - Escape Pod narrates fun science fiction and fantasy short stories, with commentary and review.
  
• Croqzine - Focus is the DIY crafty community with a craftivism edge.
  Note: they got a lotta craft in there, so if you have anything to do with craft, go for it. Also, I have no friggin clue what they're talking about.
  
• Bridge Magazine - This idée-force led to the development of a publication where innovative and discerning artistic expression in the fields of literature, poetry, visual art, music, and more could be stated without inhibition, alongside intellectual work exploring a similarly unrestricted scope of thoughts, images and conceptions.
  Uh...Ok.
  
• The Sidewalk’s End - Fiction, poetry, short plays, nonfiction, and photos/artwork of any genre or subject will be considered for publication.
  
• Front Sight Magazine -
  
• Christian Mommies ( C'Moms ) - We have a few secular and non-Christian authors in our archives, but we prefer Christian authors as they share our audiences world view. We take special notice of articles that apply God's Word to moms daily lives.
  Yeah, like the lil kid who sleeps through an entire morning and lets mommy blog without needing to change diapers. Now that's God's own work.
  
• Humor Is Relative - Humorous essays and stories submissions for possible inclusion to Humor Is Relative's archives are welcomed.
  
• Mostly Fiction - If you love to read and want to let others know about a book you enjoyed then maybe you should consider submitting reviews to MostlyFiction.com.
  
• Mommy Savers - Somethin to do with work at home moms, or is it create havoc by staying at home? Whatever...
  
• The WC News - That's The Work at Home Moms Community ( WC for short ). Again, articles for and by WAHM's. Hey, I think I need to put a trademark on CHAHM (Creating Havoc At Home Mom ).
  
• The Heuristic Squelch - UC Berkeley's only intentionally funny campus publication. Funniest squelch I ever read. I gotta go faster, otherwise I'll end up doing this all day. No more comments.
  
• Relevant Magazine - Relevant's tagline is: God. Life. Progressive Culture. We target culture savvy twentysomethings who are looking for purpose, depth and spiritual truth. We speak to an audience of independent thinkers, ones who were raised on pop culture and who are hungry for God but don't embrace dead religion. Our purpose is to challenge Christians to a deeper spiritual walk and a larger worldview.
  
• American Profile - No fiction, nostalgia, poetry or first-person stories. Coverage of people and places must be enlightening and thorough, and have a broad national relevance. We also cover health, gardening, home projects and finances.
  
• American Western Magazine - Western short stories, Essays, Equine Columns, and articles on Old West History, Western Personalities, Re-enactors, Travel, Home Decor, Lifestyle, Art, Fashion, and Food/Cooking...
  
• Write From Home - The focus of this site is to help writers manage kids and clips under one roof. I am particularly interested in problem-solving articles and essays.
  
• The Dominion ( CA ) - The Dominion is looking for articles on topics ignored or obscured by the mainstream media in Canada that convey not just facts or news, but which reveal something about life in Canada by adding to the reader's understanding of her daily activity and environment.
  
• World And I - THE WORLD & I is intended primarily for a thoughtful, educated audience. We accept articles from journalists but also place special emphasis on scholarly contributions. Sorry, can't resist a comment - Pompous ass! I'd like to see him milk a frisky cow at 4.00 a.m. and then ask him for his worldview....
  
• Brooklyn Metro Times - magazine for radical Brooklyn. Less said the better. Spent a couple of minutes trying to navigate the site, but couldn't make head or tail of it. So it's all yours...
  

OK...Reckon it's time for a break. But before I take off, there's something very, very important you should know. I'm writing this at the very bottom because I want only those who went through the entire post to read this:-

There's literally tens of thousands of online and print mags which need articles from freelance writers and pay with bylines and linkbacks to your site. So why I did I choose the motley bunch of publishers listed above? It's because Google likes them. If you have a Google toolbar, you'll notice that every single one of them, without any exception, has a Pagerank of 3 or above. A linkback to your site from each of them would virtually assure healthy search engine traffic to your site from Google and Yahoo, not to mention the fact that since these sites get a lot of search engine traffic, they'll be sending a lot of traffic to you directly. Which brings us to your site and what you're supposed to do with all that traffic.

Website building and monetization for freelance writers:

1. Get yourself a blog and sign-up for Google Adsense.
2. Start blogging in your spare time.
3. It's important that you update your site everyday and add new posts, to keep visitors coming back.
4. Improve the look and design of the site. A good looking front page is worth a lot. Make it easy to use, fast to load, informative and rich with links and resources. What? I'm still working on the look and design.....
5. Buy a small and easy to remember domain name, which people can typein. It's sorta difficult to typein www.jobsearch-online.blogspot.com. No one except me does it. I'm still thinking about the right domain name to buy. One of these days....Sigh!. OK. Over and out.

Freelance Jobs 20th Nov

It's groundhog day already. I need to rewrite the article I submitted a week ago. Definitely blows my schedule to bits. I just decided to up my writing output, both for this blog and other writing gigs I have. Plus, I wanted to play around with a little SEO on the blog template and do some link exchange with other like-minded and impoverished writers, so that I get some comments and talk to someone other than myself. And then there's the transcription kit sitting around unopened. Besides, I need to get some sleep. Those late night movies and junk food are taking a toll.


"The study found that teenagers who got more sleep had more A's and B's, while teens who got less sleep got more C's and D's." - www.pamf.org
Now they tell me! All those nights in college staying up nights, studying hard and scratching my head wondering why I wasn't getting better grades.

These are all valid and plausible reasons to put off rewriting the article. Let the procrastination begin.

Today's freelance jobs:

Essay writer needed
Movie reviewers wanted
Ghost writers needed ( not books, just small articles )
Copy writer wanted
African American mag looking for freelance writers
Fashion copy writer
Freelance blogger job
Web page writer
Web content writer
Technical writer required
Data entry gig
DC bloggers wanted
Non fiction book writer
Looking for translators

San Francisco's loony left

Note: This post has nothing to do with freelance writers or freelancers. Well, not directly, at least. I suppose I could manage to weave a few threads around San Francisco's loony left and freelancing. But that's besides the point. What I really wanna do is write about libruls. The loonier the better. It's stress relief after writing a gigantic post about writers and publishers.


www.valleywag.com - A webpage dedicated to the Google founders. Didn't really take a look, but looks nice.

First things first. Is San Francisco's liberal and progressive brigade loony? Yes. Newsweek tells me they voted to impeach both the Prez and the VP, they voted to withdraw troops from Iraq pronto, the SF school board voted to eject the junior ROTC from the city's high schools. All this while the rest of the country goes about passing initiatives to prohibit same sex marriage.

But what I'm really interested in is the culture which nurtures and allows the growth of trail-blazing technology and entrpreneurship. Is there a co-relation between the city's blue tilt and it's being a mecca for the whiz kids of the internet revolution? You tell me.

Is there any relation between the fact that Google is the internet's biggest star and the fact that 93% of Google employees contributed to Democrats in the last election cycle? You tell me.

Again, Google's plan to blanket San Francisco with free wireless internet has generated a storm. But for a different reason. While the rest of the country sucks up to the Telecom industry and stops blanket wireless internet coverage, San Francisco is arguing about whether Google's plan is an invasion of privacy. Also, it's no accident that Craigslist is headquatered in the Bay area.

Finally, any loony liberal reading this better not get cocky. San Francisco still sits smack bang on top of the San Andreas faultline. Take that!

Coming up next: Today's Freelance jobs post

Need Articles ? Part I - Paying Publishers

I'm not selling articles. Ack! I didn't say that. Uh...I mean I am selling articles, but not here, in this post. This is a post for freelance writers who want to sell articles. So, if you need articles, hit me up. ( C'mon - I have a right to spam on my own blog. You wanna plug your service as a freelance writer or publisher? Be my guest. I won't delete any plugs by and for writers. Honest. )

This is the last line of an email I just recieved from a publisher who asked me to write an article:
"....Please go back and write more."
Aaargh! He just flushed an article I spent 3 days researching and writing down the loo. Anyone here ever give their nitpicking publisher a solid kick in the shins?


"The website is aimed at giving all authors, not just those interested in joining the agency, information about the publishing process, the role of agents, publishing trends, useful websites and tips on writing, presentation, finding a publisher, publicity and practical issues such as tax exemption forms and Public Lending Right registration." - Andrew Lownie literary agency

Anyway, if you still want to write and sell articles, read on...A lot of posts have focused on freelance writing, writing for cash and related subjects. A recent post also encouraged writers to write and get published, whether for cash or bylines. I'm going to pile on some more and list resources to get your articles published regularly.

Online and print publishers who pay cash for articles :

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Category:- General

• Sormag Blog - We need articles.


• Womens Independant Press - I remember including this link in a previous post. If I've bumped into them twice, means they're important. They pay 25$ per published article.


• Technical Writers Magazine - magazine for and by technical writers and tech. industry professionals. $.05 and $.15 (USD) per word.


• Absolute Write - Articles and interviews related to the craft and/or marketing of writing only. $5 per article.


• Parabola Magazine - Journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning. (Reason I include it is because they pay for book reviews...). $75 per book review.


• Imperfect Parent - The main focus of The Imperfect Parent is to provide a world view from a parent's perspective. $10 to $50 for beginners.


• Planet Magazine - Covering the arts, culture and politics in Wales and beyond. £50.00 per 1000 words. £30.00 per poem.


• Cafe Mundo - A meeting place for travelers and writers from across the hemisphere. $50 for 10 ages or $5 for 850 words.


• Go Nomad - The GoNomad network is a community of independent and alternative travelers and businesses dedicated to sustainable and responsible tourism. $25 per feature.


• WholeEarth Mag - Information about restoring your local ecosystem, citizen advocacy, and socially responsible investing. Payment negotiable.


• Fiction Factor - Fiction Factor is always seeking material that offers aspiring writers tips and advice on honing their skills, and helping new authors to break into the publishing field. $5 US per article.


• Broken Pencil - Broken Pencil accepts zines, ezine urls, books, videos/films, music recordings, and mail-art for review. $30 to $300.


• The Dabbling Mum - Online publication with christian undertone. $20 to $40 per article.


Category : Industry Specific :-


• Carolina Country - Of special interest are subjects relating to the generation, distribution and use of electrical energy. Poetry generally is not published. Scratch this one off the list.


• Escape Homes - EscapeHomes is paying up to $20 per submission for real estate and travel articles.


• Epitome ( ezine for artists ) - $5 USD for articles under 500 words. $10 USD for longer articles.


• Vetz Magazine - This is a magazine for the veterinary industry. If you know anything about that, go ahead. They pay $200-400 per article.


• Back To College - Duh. They have a trademark for Back To College. Anyway, $60-$85 per article.


• SSWUG.org - That's SQL Server Worldwide Users Group. So, if you know a lot about databases and even more about Sql Server, go ahead. $20 per article.


• ALPA.org - Editorial material of aviation industry information, (e.g., economics, avionics equipment, aircraft systems, aviation safety, regulations) that affects the life of a professional airline pilot from a profession and a career standpoint. $100 to $500 per article.


• AuditMyPC - Online mag for PC security. Specify your own rates. Or a linkback.


• Community Care ( UK ) - www.communitycare.co.uk is a specialist website dedicated to all areas of the social care profession. £100 per 1000 words.


• ALA.org - Features articles on professional concerns and developments, along with news of the Association, library-related legislation, and libraries around the country and the world. $100 to $250 per article.


• BlindSkills - Personality profiles of interest to newly blind and other visually impaired people, examples of career, education and leisure experiences, and descriptions of technological solutions, coping strategies and helpful resources. $15 to $35 per article.


• Grit Magazine - "DO NOT try to write for Grit if you know nothing about rural life. We intend to be an authoritative and sometimes playful voice for rural lifestyle farmers and require our writers to be informed about their subject matter." Capiche? 35 cents per published word.


• Pirates Info - Informative site about pirates - Fact and legend. $.05 USD per word.



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OK. My head is spinning and I don't know whether to start applying to all these links or continue and finish this post. But then, I think about the huge number of sites that I need to list on this post and in the next one( non-paying publishers who offer bylines, etc. ), I'm feeling kinda woozy and I need a break. I'll update it later when I recover from this bout of pending-work-itis.

Update: There's a big list of paying and non-paying publishers here.

Virtual Staffing Assistant ( VA ) Jobs

I wrote a short post about virtual staffing companies sometime back. Last couple of weeks, I have been pretty much focused only on freelance writing and writers. Sorta playing to the base, you know. You keep your base happy, and you can govern with a 51% majority. Unless reality intrudes and your virtual concepts and mandate get washed away by a tidal wave of democratic reality.


Never before have I have felt so totally like an ignorant klutz on visiting a website. So am I living in a virtual world or are they?

Anyway, that's another story. From now on, I promise to make posts keeping not only the base ( starving writers ), but all sectors of freelancers on the net in mind - Transcriptionists, translators, data entry typists, virtual staffing assistants, CSR's and even good-for-nothing bloggers. So, here's today's listings solely for virtual staffing assistant jobs, contracts and freelance gigs, VA directories, etc. In short, all the tools you need to start your own virtual staffing business.

Virtual Staffing Jobs :

Craigslist virtual staffing assistant jobs - Even though these posts get filled up very fast and you might be reading backdated entries, these are mostly companies who keep hiring virtual assistants. So it wouldn't do any harm to send off an email application.

What you will need to get a real virtual assistant job ( Huh! ):

1. An internet phone software which allows you to recieve and make calls inside the United States from your PC ( if possible for free ).
2. A virtual fax number which allows you to send and recieve documents from and to fax machines.
3. Fast typing speed.
4. This one is optional, but does give you a lot of credibility, which you might need if you don't have prior experience as a virtual assistant. Get yourself certified by the "The International Virtual Assistants Association" (www.IVAA.org).

Do some googling, set yourself up the right software ( don't spend money on it just yet ), maybe get certified. Then start sending applications to companies and employers in the list above and in the previous post about virtual staffing companies.

Successfull VA's seem to call it their business rather than a job or a gig or a contract. They are certified, have a website which lists their experience, expertise and references. In short, a website is good way to sell yourself as a VA to prospective employers. You may find the employer through job boards, in which case you just refer him to your website, instread of sending a resume or the employer may find you through search engines. Hence the term "Start your own virtual assistant business".

Here's a couple of examples which might give you a good idea of what you need to do:

www.allisonlane.com
www.wilsonva.com

And once you have a good website, you might want to add your link to a few directories which list virtual assistants:

IVAA members directory ( It costs money to be a member. You decide whether it's worth it or not. )
UK virtual assistants directory
Canadian Virtual Assistant Connection
Virtual Assistant Directory

Blogger Jobs Nov 2006

So is it a weblog or web log or we blog? And if it's just a blog, what happened to the we? Guess when you're talking to yourself, there is no we, huh?

But even if you get one of the paid blogging gigs, it's better than talking to yourself on your own blog. What? I don't fall into that category. See, if you're reading this, I ain't talking to myself and if you're not, then you don't know that I'm talking to myself. Uh...Maybe I need to get some therapy....

There's not enough blogger jobs for a weekly post, let alone daily posts. So I'm starting this monthly blogger jobs post, in addition to posting any available blogging gigs in the daily freelance jobs posts.

Most visitors and posters on blogs are bloggers themselves. I don't see how scratching each others' backs will help anyone go pro other than trying to trick Google and Yahoo into throwing you a few bones.

Take a look at these jobs. You never know...

Blogger wanted for online chat meeting ( Craigslist SF Bay )
Movie blogger wanted ProBlogger Jobs Board
Looking for fashion blogger Craigslist SF Bay
Alternative energy blogger needed Craigslist SF Bay
Freelance blogger wanted Craigslist Miami
Blog and forum poster Craigslist SF Bay
Honeymoon blogger Craigslist Honolulu
Political blogger wanted Craigslist DC
Political and tech blogger Craigslist Orangecounty
Asian mag looking for bloggers Craigslist Manilla

Obviously, some of these blogger jobs might not be available by the time you click on the links. But still...happy blogging.

Freelance Jobs 18th Nov

Get paid to watch videos ( website posting )


News and Analysis, Technoscience and Cyberculture, Celebrities and Cyborg Anthropology. Uhh...ok. Let's get on with the jobs...

Web content writer

Article writer wanted

Web content writer for online radio station

Bloggers for music news

Freelance tech writer wanted

Keyword optimization for articles

New York city blogger job

Freelance copywriter wanted

Writer to write about and for writers

Strategery for Staying The Course

Even if you're doin a heckuva job, doesn't mean that you ain't goin to get a thumpin. Uh...What do I mean? Nothing much. Just wanted to use some Bushisms and make a whole sentence which makes some sense. Obviously the strategery ain't working, but you got to stay the course. Maybe it'll make adsense®, even if doesn't make sense.

Is strategery an actual Bushism? Meaning, did President Bush invent the word strategery? Nope! It was a comedian who did.

Anyway, what I do mean is that there's a couple of things you can learn from President Bush and his Iraq adventure:
A - You're doing a lot of things. Some of them work and some of them don't. What you need to do is work out which one is working, dump the rest which are not working and focus all your time and money on the one which is working.
B - It needs a lot of perseverance and staying the course. Some days it'll work, other days you'll feel like you're an insignificant speck of dust in the scheme of things, but you put your head down, stay the course and follow the strategery. Course, you have to be sure that the strategry is sound, and it's gonna hit the bullseye, sooner or later.

What's all this bloviatin got to do with freelance writers? I refer you to this post "A Penny For Your Prose". First time I read the article, it just seemed like sound advice. After Madonna, the author of the article, posted a comment, I re-read the entire piece, and it's astonishing how many things I missed in the first read.

For one, she mentions a bunch of publishers who pay budding writers and authors. I did a bit of googling and a couple of useful links are posted below. Secondly, and the main point of all this bloviating, is that you have to write and submit. Write and submit. Write and submit. Every time your article is published, you get paid in some form - whether it's three jars of honey, a linkback to your site or in hard cash. In the end, it all adds up. So what I'm going to do is change a few gears and increase my writing output. If it looks good, I'll be looking for cash. If it's crap, I'll sell it for chocolate or a linkback. So either I get cash or traffic, which in the end make for good adsense®. How's that for strategery?

Thank you Madonna and thank you President Bush, for the inspiration for this post.

Ok. Here's the links:

Writers Resource - TheMarketlist Online

Thema - Submissions

Freelance Jobs 16th Nov

Web link description writer - Click Here
Writer for Technical User Manual - Click Here

Translator ( English to English ) - Click Here
Comment: That's US english to UK english.

Computer needs human web content writer - Click Here
Comment: I knew machines couldn't win the war!

Literary journal looking for submissions - Click Here
Article writer for working women - Click Here
Another mag looking for submissions - Click Here
Freelance Technology Writer - Click Here
Trailer Park Cooking Show Writer - Click Here

Write For Cash

I know that most of you are already freelance writers, probably much better than me. But there's so many publishers and site networks and portals and vertical portals and blog networks and paid content and article sellers on the web, that I thought it might be a good thing to list all of them in one place. It's not possible that you're writing for all of them ( you might be if you you're one of those aliens from a Spielberg film with a couple of heads and a few dozen hands ), so this list might come in handy in case you're looking for new freelance or contract writing jobs.


www.twoheadedblog.com deserves a link because firstly, he's the only writer with two heads ( sorta ) and secondly, he's also a tree hugging librul ( at least for the next 5 years ), when at age 35, he plans to become a conservative. Nice timing, huh? He'll be a conservative just in time to see Jeb Bush become the Prez.

Anyway, I'll list here all the places on the net where you can get paid to write ( some of whom have paid me a lot over the last few years and some of whom I'd like to see pay me a lot over the next few years.) So, here goes nothing:

About.com - Be A Guide
Pays upwards of $500 USD per month. Hard work, hard to get, hard to maintain and ferocious competition. But once you get the hang of it, you can get sweet checks worth $1000-1500 USD every month. The company was recently acquired by the New york Times company, so you'll be part of a very prestigious network.

Adapt, Inc. - Get Paid to Blog
Graded pay based on the word count of your blog post. $300 USD cap per month ( not that you'll make that much...). Still, it's good money for blog posts.

Suite101 - Freelance Writers
Get paid for your articles based on the number of page views. Pays $2 USD for 1000 page views. Again, it's debatable how much you can make. Far as I know, they ain't paying so much now. But still, if you can generate traffic to your own articles....

Wisegeek - Contact Wisegeek

I'll have to complete this post later. Got a few pending "works of art" to take care of. If you have any links to add, be my guest.

Update: Ok. Let's get on with it.

WriteForUs - Uhh..Login?
Yeah. Yeah. I'll update the link if / when I find it. But don't hold your breath.

ExpertVillage - Become An Expert
There's a bit of history and background information about this one. Personally I haven't signed up, but that's only because I'm not an expert. Neither do I do videos. All I can do is type, and then some. Anyway, it's your call.

HowToDoThings - Become An Expert
At first glance, it may not seem like something you want to do. But it gets really interesting later on. Believe me.

Bloviatin

Taking a break today from the usual schedule. No articles, no emails, nothing except pure blogging. And since I'm free, I'm going to take the chance to catch up on the news. Been reading all the news and bloviations on the net for a few hours. Rove flunked Math, Bush took a thumpin and Nancy Pelosi is measuring drapes ( BTW, did ya know that Pelosi and Steny Hoyer were going Salsa dancing together in 1991? ). Meanwhile, 150 people were kidnapped in Iraq and Japan is quaking after a quake set off a Tsunami warning. So what's new? I have only one question - When does Rumsfeld get his Medal of Honor?
Silly twits that they are, the Yahoo answer guys deleted the question. But Google being what it is, there's always the cache.



It's really very, very funny. Have a look - Ironic Times

Update: Having nothing to do is a pain in the butt. I don't feel like going out, and I've read Newsweek, WashingtonPost, NYTimes, Time, Salon, sundry blogs and TownHall ( just in case some conservatives are feeling unloved ). Plus I've been refreshing Google news like every 5 minutes. Finally I'm back here and so here's some of today's freelance jobs:

Transcription gig - Click Here
Website Editor and Copywriter - Click Here
Comment: Nice gig. If you have the experience and time. I'm gonna apply.
Online retail firm looking for copywriter - Click Here
Writers, Photographers and Cartoonists Needed - Click Here
Blogger and Editor for Video blogs ( vblogs )- Click Here
SEO copywriting - Click Here
Comment: Application sent!
Uh..Blogger wanted...I think...Cause they say if you have done blogging before, that's a plus..Whatever... - Click Here
Book researcher ( writing assistant ) - Click Here
Comment: The book writer sounds like he's been in the sun too long, but if he's gonna pay you...


If you're "witty, prolific, positive, creative, articulate, intelligent, innovative, captivating, unique style, detail oriented, engage reader, picture painting, fresh perspective, able to work with deadlines, peek peoples interest (cliff hanger), willing to, ethically/legally, do what ever it takes type attitude, passionate about our company and its drive+mission+motivation, willing to collaborate/mastermind within/outside the team to come up with fresh ideas, able to move people emotionally into a space of immediate action through their writing"...
then you can Click Here.
Comment: How do you "peek" peoples interest ? They really need a writer, huh?

Freelance Jobs 15th Nov

Writing ain't beans. You need to sweat on it. You write. Then you rewrite. Then you look at your brand new masterpiece. Then you tear it up. Smoke a cigarette. Take a break. Work up the courage to start again. Then you take the first draft, make a few changes here and there and it looks pretty good now. Then you send it off and you're feelin pretty good.


http://www.literaryagent.co.uk - Expert help for newbie writers. How to get published and advertise your writing services.

Time goes by and these small, tiny niggling doubts begin popping up. Did you do a spell check? Never mind, let's do it again. While doing the spell check, you realise the last paragraph on the last page of your masterpiece might as well fit in just below the first paragraph on the first page. After around 20 minutes of hacking and ripping and cutting and pasting, you have no friggin idea where your article starts and where it ends. So you give up on it, and let the chips fall where they may. Where's that cigarette?

Here's today's freelance jobs:

Political, legal and international relations writers - Click Here
Comment: I know for sure I could crack this gig. But I'm afraid I don't want to mix blogging and politics - Not any more. Very toxic combination.

Writer for Latin mag - Click Here

A model, who's a writer herself, wants you to write about her for a writing gig she got to write about herself. If you can figure that out, Click Here

Quips writer wanted - Click Here

Web content writer - Click Here
Comment: It says editor, but I don't see it. Looks like a simple writing gig.

Entertainment Magazine seeks Freelance Writers - Click Here

Wanna write about and for writers? Click Here

Commercail fishing writer? Click Here

Freelance writers - Click Here
Comment: Ad seems normal, but somehow seems a little above board. Sending an email won't hurt, but...

Copywriters needed - Click Here

Online mag looking for contributing writers - Click Here

Blue Blistering Barnacles

Dunno why I just remembered Tintin and captain Whatshisname, but that's what I feel like. I have never, ever done so much research for a single article. I must have scanned wikipedia, google and God knows how many other sites and directories for tiny tidbits.


Uhh...I dunno what it says on the site about the Captain, but I'm sure it ain't pretty. If you know French, you might want to read for some comic relief.

And, that's not all - The more I search, the more I realize that I'm way outta my depth. I'm just beginning to understand the subject matter and write on my own without referring to other sites for spelling, dates and other stuff which an expert on the subject would know offhand.

I also finished writing the article ( just need to go through all of it again ), and what I'm doing now is basically reading other similar articles on the web and I realize how amateurish my article sounds. Really needs more time, but since I blew 4 days, I have no choice but to submit as is. And hope for the best. And pray. And worry.

Crap. How do I manage to get myself into these impossible situations? If my article is accepted, that only means Groundhog day week-in and week-out. If the article is rejected, I'm probably gonna end up drunk. So take a pick.

On to today's freelance jobs:

If you can do Chinese translation, but do not want money, but you want a massage which is not sexual in any way, you might want to Click Here.

All right. All right. That was the first job I bumped into. Not my fault.

Typist wanted ( data entry gig ) - Click Here

Tech / Internet / Business Writer wanted - Click Here

Web copywriter wanted - Click Here

Beauty, style, fashion, shopping, etc. article writers wanted - Click Here

Academic Writing / Research Assistance Needed - Click Here

Prolific Writer wanted - Click Here

Freelance Jobs 12th Nov

I'm gonna get screwed. I've been procrastinating everyday about writing an article for which I had one week. Got 2 days left now. It's funny how your mind can come up with up highly plausible arguments for postponing things which you find you don't want to do - First you want to update your blog, then you're sick, then you're recovering, then you have to do some urgent shopping......I'm thinking of bailing out. It's a highly lucrative writing assignment, but if the first one is causing so much heartburn, I wonder if I can do it week in and week out. Appreciate your 2 cents on this. I'm leaning towards bailing out, but I'm scared I'll regret it afterwards.


WordsOFWellness.com - Vertical portals or vortals on topics related to wellness - Physical, spiritual, financial and lots more.

On to today's freelance jobs ( mostly for freelance writers with a couple of translation and transcription gigs ):

Humanist magazine seeks articles and book reviews - Click Here
Comment: Nice mag. Nice gig. If you can get it.
Short Story Writers - Click Here
Writers wanted - Click Here
Web Writers Needed - Click Here
Freelance content writers - Click Here
Transcription gig ( handwritten to digital ) - Click Here
Outdoor Bloggers - Click Here
Comment: Doesn't mean you blog with your laptop sitting in a cave next to Osama. Means you blog about things outdoor.
Writers wanted for leadership and career articles - Click Here
Website Monitor / Maintenance Job ( Work at home ) - Click Here
Nice gig: No pressure and not much to do. But I reckon the position will be filled up very fast.
Translators wanted ( many languages ) - Click Here
Article writers wanted - Click Here
Comment: Seems a bit fishy, but if you're getting paid....

Writing Jokes For Money - Part II

Prequel

Joke Writers Help!!

Just call 911 ( You did agree to listen to my jokes, right? )

Practical lesson in Standup Comedy

Let's get down to business:
"Two Sisters Reunited After 18 Years in Checkout Line" Why is that funny? Uh...Never mind. I think I need to start a seperate jokes blog..

1. BBC - Getting Started in Comedy - Comedy is notoriously difficult to quantify, and even the most successful comedians and comedy writers would struggle to explain why a joke is funny. But there are tips to take note of and pitfalls to avoid, as Martin Trenaman and Matt Leys explain.

2. Joke Writing Resource Centre - A brief look at how jokes are written, recommended books with reviews, writing for greetings cards, successful lyric writing book and software programs to help you write and drawing cartoons.

3. 7 Ways to Improve Your Joke Writing - You can learn and improve upon your joke and humor writing skills, regardless of genre. As Mills adds, "Every joke is a story with a beginning, a middle and an end."

4. How to Write a Joke: The 7 basic joke forms - Structurally speaking, joke writing problems are exactly the same for anyone trying to get a laugh.

Here's a few available gigs for joke writers:

Urban Sketch Comedy Show Seeks Writers - Click Here
Comedy writers wanted - Click Here
African American Comedy Sketch Writers Wanted - Click Here
Writers Wanted - Click Here


"John Kerry met with Ralph Nader. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke." -Jay Leno
I think I wanna do a sequel for this post...

Writing jokes for money - Part 1

A few years back, I was a nerd sitting in my mom's basement chatting online with other nerds sitting in their respective basements. I was told to get a life and a real job. The reason I mention this at all, is because it just struck me how attitudes have changed towards people who make their living online. Even people who have very little or no interaction on the net now think it's pretty cool when I tell them that my computer feeds me.

Course there's a relative aspect to all this - Compared to a Google employee who works from home, I'm trailer trash. Anyway, what I'm trying to say here is that it is no longer a risk to base one's career on trying to earn money online. Hold on, hold on...Don't quit the day job just yet. I didn't mean it literally. Just a manner of speaking...

On to something a bit more specific and related to freelance writers:

Breaking your head over a title for your next article? Click here.
Guaranteed to send you into a tizzy of inspiration and ideas heaven. Else money back. Oh! Sorry - You ain't paying me squat. No deal.

Duh! One would think that Google is bound to know the answer as to whether a blog can make money or not. Well, think again:
Q: Blogging for revenue ( No Answer, 3 Comments )

Just one more crack. I promise. Then we get on to the jobs. Sorry, I can't get you a job freelancing

Ok. On to the jobs:- Today's niche focus - Writing jokes for money. Here's a list of resources, available gigs and of course, the jokes ( C'mon...How do you expect me to write about making money from jokes, if you don't wanna listen to the jokes? ).

Hold on to your hats for part II.

Freelance Jobs 10th Nov

Web Writers Needed - Click Here

Freelance content writers - Click Here

Freelance Editors Needed - Click Here

Got blog? - Click Here

Writer / Researcher - Click Here
Comment: If you fit the bill, and you get the gig, you might be busy for quite some time.

Get Paid to Rant About Books - Click Here
Comment: I've been doing so much reading about book reviews since yesterday that I'm quite hazy about which links I already posted. But, just to be on the safe side, I'm posting this one again.

Internet Start Up / Business Writing Opportunity - Click Here

By the Y... - Click Here
Comment: I have, um.., nothing to say about the needs of the gal, but I do have one question - what's Y... stand for?

Tic Tac Toe Players - Click Here
Comment: Duh. And then you ask me why jobs are being outsourced out of the US. With nitwits like this hanging around on the net wasting their time, it's a wonder the US isn't a third world country already...

Which brings me to this ( Warning : This has nothing to do with telecommute jobs or freelance writers... ):

Third World Workers Need Western Jobs
I'll quote the paragraph which makes me want to puke, if preferably onto the above author's face:
"The issue of child labor has long been a flashpoint in the globalization debate. As repellant as the notion of child labor is, the harsh truth is that a Western company that stops using child labor in some Third World nations does not change the economic conditions that had those children working in the first place. Nor does it change the local cultural standards that accept and expect child labor. Unfortunately, in many corners of the globe, closing the factories and sweatshops to children often just seals for them a far worse fate."



How low can someone fall in order to justify some preconcieved notions? I'm not going to argue about this point by point or provide links to prove him wrong because it's not necessary. All I want to say is that if something you do is right and truthful, you never, ever have to be ashamed of doing it. Is there a single - Just name me one - company which says that "Yes, we do employ child labor, and what we're doing is right"? You won't find one. I wish someone would wake up the klutz who wrote that article and ask him to take a good look in the mirror.

Book Reviewer Jobs

Do you want to pay someone for the honor of reviewing their book(s)? Click Here

Yeah - That's right. They expect you to pay them $25 for letting you write reviews about their books. Now I've seen it all.
Note: This is a joke, ok? This is not a job or gig. If you applied for a review job with the above link, then you need help:


Hope Clark offers the serious book reviewer 70+ publications that pay for book reviews.

All right - I'm sorry. Just making up for lost time. Here's the jobs - 3,060,000 of book reviewer gigs - Click Here. Lemme know how it goes. Bye...

Ok. All right. Calm down. Here's the jobs - Honest:

Chicklit Review Writers Wanted - Click Here

Book Reviewers Assignments - Click Here

Book Reviewers Wanted - Click Here

Manuscript Reviewers - Click Here

Book Reviews Needed - Click Here

Writers and Reviewers Wanted for E-zine - Click Here

And one more - Wanna get $100 for reviewing movies? Click Here

Related Resources:

1. How to write a book review - Click Here
2. One more "How to write a book review" ( just for backup ) - Click Here
3. And in case the above two links didn't help, here's some 57,900,000 more links on "How to write A book review" - Click Here

P.S. : Please read the friggin book before you review it.

Freelance Jobs - 9th Nov 2006

You know, when I started blogging, I had it all planned out. I divided my work into two categories - Short term and Long term. Short term where I get paid for some small stuff, like short articles or reviews or blogging or whatever. Pay ain't something to brag about, but it keeps the wheels turning. And Long term is like where you have to put in a lot of time and effort, without seeing any immediate returns, but lots of castles in the air. Meaning that I was doing both, the short term work keeping me motivated and the long term work giving me hope that one day....Anyway, what I'm saying is that I'm in way over my nose. I have a sore throat, the short term work is piling up and the long term projects just keep getting bigger and bigger. Plus, the Democrats took the Republicans to the woodshed in the US congressional elections, Novell throws Linux users to the big bad shark, uhh...Microsoft and Britney Spears files for divorce. WTF is going on?? Show me some love, huh?


LiteraryAgent.co.uk - literary agents critique book publishers and authors information for aspiring authors and writers

Today's Freelance Jobs:

Contract Writers - Click here.

Grant Writer - Click here.

Coffee Lovin Writer - Click here.
Comment: Yeah, yeah - I know! Perfect gig, huh?

Web content writer for ethnic online dating - Click here.

Short Article writers - Click here.

Vegetarian Blogger Jobs - Click here.
Comment: I've been piling on bloggers in the last few posts, so I'll give this one a pass. But it's really begging for a snark.

Toast writer wanted - Click here.
Comment: I decide I don't want to crack any jokes today and this is what happens. Darn!

African American Poetry Mag ( female )- Click here.

Case Study Writer - Click here.

Internet research, short writeups and Blogging gigs - Click here.
Comment: Sounds good, but there's a small alarm bell clanging somewhere deep inside. I could be wrong, but be careful, huh?

Freelance Online Writers - Click here.

Online Publication seeks Staff Writers - Click here.
Comment: Please read the friggin small print at the bottom of the ad before you apply.

Copy and Write This

Nice pic, huh? If you're in the Netherlands and want some copywriting done, pls click pic to visit 'Kant copywrite' or somethin like that.

Anyway, a coupla days back I wrote about SEO copywriting. Wish I had read the following page before writing that article:

PerceptionEngine.com

If I had bumped into this page a few days back, I wouldn't have had to write about copywriting. I would just have needed to copy and write.

I'm quoting two full paragraphs for those who don't want to read the full article:

"What are the Benefits of Writing an Article for Your Site?

I send you a free toaster in the mail. Nope, just kidding. When you submit an article to PerceptionEngine, you maintain sole ownership of your literary work. You are merely giving me permission to publish it on my website. This means that you can publish your article elsewhere on other websites while it's published on mine, and you can have your article removed from my website at any time for any reason. I'm not a thief, your intellectual property will not be stolen.

In addition, you get free publishing (I put it up on my site), free maintenance (I pay for hosting), and free advertising (I show visitors where it is). You can also advertise your own website in your author's profile. I regularly utilize search engines to ensure that your material is not plagiarised or reproduced without your consent, so I will help to protect your work."

What strikes you after reading that? I'll tell you what didn't strike me - The pain that normally comes after reading a full page and finding out that the cheapskate wants your article for free.

All he's saying is that you get a byline, same as every website which does not pay writers. But he's saying it in such a way that it takes away the pain and the urge to close the window. Makes you pause for a second. God knows how many writers have decided to submit their articles in that brief pause. This is not writing. This is Copywriting.

Again, if you're lookin for today's jobs, that'll be coming in a short while in another post. HA!

Freelance Jobs - 8th Nov 2006

Freelance Writer ( Shakespeare ) 450$ - Click Here

Article writers ( Investment banking and Private equity ) - Click Here

Writers for Music, Art and culture - Click Here

Lifestyle Mag looking for feature writers - Click Here

Personal finance/Consumer credit Writer needed - Click Here

B2B/B2C writer needed - Click Here

Ghost Writer - Click Here

Get ready for some bloviating by yours truly in a few hours. But before that, I gotta do some work, for a change, like writing an article. Deadline is coming closer and I'm starting to sweat a bit. Just a tiny little bit. Nothing I can't handle. I hope...

Ghost Writers

I am, in effect a ghost writer because I sell articles for money, rather than name. I'd like not to be a ghost. I'd like to be a full warm blooded human writer with both money and name, but the evil publishers have banned me to the realm of the hooded writers who recieve only the money and someone else gets the credit.

It burns my heart when I see my articles credited to some nobody, but if I start taking credit for the work, it is my stomach that will be growling. I'd rather let my heart burn than let my stomach growl.

Source: http://www.happinessonline.org/LoveAndHelpChildren/p12.htm ( That leads to an alleged speech about the allegedly ghost written book by Queen Hillary about how the entire village raised Chelsea. )

Ghost writers come in a few mutant varieties:
1. Writers who get partial credit ( say somewhere in small print, at the bottom, where no one can read it.) This would be the kind of gig where you write an autobiography of a celeb or politician who hasn't read or written anything for the last decade or so.
2. Writers who really do not exist. Meaning the publishing house invents a writer and gives the writer credit for the collective work of a lot of writers.
3. Writers who get no credit whatsoever and are compensated purely in terms of money. This would be the kind of category where myself and other, uh..undernourished artists fall.

Since I'm making a living out of this practise, it would be foolish of me to nitpick about there being an element of deception in ghost writing. Does it hurt anyone? Well...Think about it. I write an article on credit scores or debt management. I do a lot of research and finetune the article so that it really looks like I know what I, meaning the author, Not me..uh, anyway...is talking about. End result? Any visitor to the site where the article now resides is going to be impressed and will be more than willing to pay a few bucks to hire the site owner's services.

My point - Ghost writing for web content is a wholly different ball game than ghost writing a book. Can I live with this deception? Of course. Can I sleep at night? Of course. So don't I look like a hypocrite now after making this post? Yes. Should I have written this post? Nope.

If you're looking for the jobs, you'll have to wait some more. I decided I need to make two posts a day. I'm splittin the jobs and my blather into two seperate posts. So now you know which one you want to read. Right?

Freelancers and Freelancing

Pipe down! We'll get down to today's freelancing jobs very soon. Besides Craigslist ain't going nowhere. I want to expound ( or is that bloviate? ) on freelancers and freelancing a little bit first.

A freelancer is, by definition, a dolt who finishes one job and then goes around searching for another job. Or something like that. My point is, besides being good at the job itself, a freelancer needs to be highly skilled at hunting down jobs. A normal person would hunt for a new job maybe once or twice in a decade wheras a freelancer has to do it everyday. In short, hunting for jobs is part of the job. Uh....I don't know how I ended up with that, and you can stop grinning now.

As a freelance writer, I really like the challenge of trying to find a gig and when someone accepts my services, it gives a sense of achievement. But the fun really begins when it comes down to writing the article. I mean, you have no friggin clue about the topic you have been asked to write about. You start Googling and pretty soon a routine assignment turns into a fascinating process of discovery. You learn things you never would have in any other sector. I have done research on and written articles about topics as varied as Moore's law on semiconducters, a HowTo on Backgammon, Medicare woes in the US and other equally interesting topics. This is an aspect of being a freelance writer which I love the most.

Job satisfaction is a word bandied about by HR Managers everywhere. But what exactly does it mean? For me, it means looking forward eagerly to see what today has in store for you. Am I going to write about Art Nouveau or am I going to write an essay about the feeding habits of pet rabbits? Or am I going to bloviate about freelancing on my blog? Either way, I enjoy it all. Question is: Do you?

On to today's freelance jobs:

Tech and Business Writers - Click Here

Rabbit Writer - Click Here
Comment: It's not funny, OK? It's a good gig and you can learn how to tell if a rabbit is a boy or a girl. Ok. It's funny.

Freelance Patent Research - Click Here

Blogger Job ( Nutrition Blog )- Click Here

Bilingual Translators wanted - Click Here

Content Writer wanted - Click Here

Website data entry typist - Click Here

Forgive me, but I have to go rabbit hunting, uh.. I mean, rabbit writing job hunting. Ciao.

Translation and Transcription Jobs

Translation and transcription as a career, at least for a freelancer on the internet, is not something you want to do unless you have the right tools. What this article intends to do is tell you what you tools you need, what you need to learn and where to find translation and transcription jobs after you acquire the required skills.

first up, you probably wandered in here looking for a transcription or translation job. If so, here's the transcription jobs and here's the translation jobs.

However, if you're just starting out, you should probably read on first.

Medical Transcription Jobs

Now this is a totally different issue and I would not advise you to apply unless you have a medical background - And that doesn't mean you qualify if you managed to coax out a couple of your dentist's front teeth while he was trying to pull out yours.


This is serious stuff and you have the lives of patients in your hands. If you still think you're up to it, please follow the links below:

jobs.biohealthmatics.com
www.mtjobs.com

There's a big list of companies like the two above. You can find them here.

Ok. In case you're still reading, and you think this scene ain't bad - Got a lotta jobs and pay's good. Hmmm...Only problem is, you don't know squat about medical transcription. So?

Click here. It would be impossible for me to compete with that FAQ. Read it. Follow it. Don't start spending any money just yet. Just read and learn. Then come back here and read the rest of this post.

Ok. Now that you're back ( you didn't really read it, did you? I know - It's too big. ). Here's how you can get a hands-on feel of the work involved, without spending a dime. And if you're good at it, you might even end up with a nice medical transcription gig.

Tigerfish Medical Transcription

Note: I have come up with these links after spending a lot of painful hours searching and contacting dozens of companies and rejecting every company which asked for money. In spite of this, if you are dense enough to end up paying someone to get a medical transcription job, then you really deserve to be parted of your money.

Customer Service Reps Wanted

Bloggers!!!! - Wanna blog without pay? - Click Here
Comment: My Bad! I forgot. That's like asking an 'on duty' whore to go out for a date. My apologies.


The blog linked to above ( bgalrstate.blogspot.com ) deserves a linkback cause she's a tree-hugging gun-hating liberal.

Help Desk Technician ( Work From Home ) - Click Here
Comment: This is the site: www.rewebcentral.com and seems like a genuine job, even though the site does not have a career section. Well, never hurts to fire away a resume, huh?

Article Writers Wanted - Click Here
Comment: Got this also on Craigslist, but I thought it better not to link to the Craigslist posting, but rather directly to the site. Why? Because they're making you jump through hoops( you'll understand if you try fill in the form). Dunno why, but it rings some alarm bells. A company which wanted to pay to write articles would just tell you to send over an email with your resume/details. Anyway, I could be wrong, and this could be a great job, in which case I'm gonna miss out, cause I left the form halfway through.

Attorneys wanted for telecommuting writing job - Click Here
Comment: They want "two sets" of attorneys. Maybe they should shop around to see if they buy one set, maybe they can get the other set free. I'm pretty sure if they were looking for bloggers instead of attorneys, they would a got a pair free....

Recruiting Researcher - Click Here
Comment: Get this gig and you probably won't have the time to go looking for another one for a long time.

Internet Teachers - Click Here
Comment: Uh...They need us to teach people how to use Google and Yahoo and web browsers - Via the internet..I'm still scratching my head.....I mean, how do you teach someone to use the internet when you're communicating via the internet????
There's 3 possibilities here:
1. Either I'm dumb and missing something.
2. The employer is dumb and hasn't thought about this.
3. The people who are the employers clients are too dumb to have thought about this.

Take your pick, though I'm leaning towards No.1

Enjoy.

Staring Into The Abyss

A small confession before I start - The reason I'm writing this article is not because I did some deep introspection - It's because I didn't have any material for this post.


Since I'm hotlinking their image, you might consider visiting http://www.literaryagent.co.uk/

Anyway, I was looking for articles by other writers and just happened to bump into this page:

Writers On Writing

There are two very important things about this page:
A:- It has a priceless collection of articles from writers about how they ended up as writers.
B:- It's free and from the NYTimes. How often does that happen?

While each of you ( I'm taking it for granted here that you are some kind of a writer ), will draw his own conclusions from the bunch of articles inside, a couple of them really hit close to home for me. So, I decided to rehash some old history.

I can't hold a regular morning-to-evening job. I tried, for all of three days, before I decided that I really wasn't made for this. I have this deep restlessness inside, and it rears it's ugly head whenever I get somewhat comfortable in any situation. So I decided to earn enough money to be able to retire and then do whatever my heart desired. Needless to say, it didn't quite work out that way. Which is when I decided to take a step back and take some time off. I spent a few months basically lazing and moping around, during which time it occured to me that I might try to do some writing. Well, to make a long story short, I'm no good at it. But I found one thing - You don't have to be Charles Dickens to sell an article on the web. And that's what I'm doing currently.

Well, that solves a couple of problems:
1. I didn't know what to write about today.
2. After reading those articles in the NYT, I have come to the conclusion that all writers are, in some way or the other, abysmal failures in the normal pursuits of life. So, let's pack up all that guilt and stow it away, to be opened for introspection some other time. For now, I'm a writer.

Today's jobs:

Freelance Writer For Oil Company - Click here.

Web content writer - Click here.

Tech Blog needs a part-time writer - Click here.

Call for a group of writers - Click here.

Comment: You know the first thing that comes to mind when you read the ad? This is gonna be one heck of a swinger party.....

SEO Copywriting

Spotlight on Copy Writers. A few facts about copywriting before we go on to today's writing gigs:

"Copywriters are similar to technical writers, and the careers may overlap. Broadly speaking, however, technical writing is dedicated to informing readers rather than persuading them. A copywriter would write an ad designed to sell you a car, while a technical writer would write the operator's manual designed to tell you how to use it."
- Wikipedia

To confuse you some more, I'll sprinkle in copywriting for the web. What this means is that:
1. You need to write an ad targeting human visitors, extolling the virtues of the product or service.
2. You need to keep in mind that your text is meant to be keyword rich and make the page / ad rank higher in the search engines.

This is what we would call SEO copywriting. And this is the kind of job you can find easily. Why? Because you're providing a service which sells a product to both humans and search engine bots. Advertisers and/or publishers should be swamping you with offers, if you can hire yourself to write some good SEO Copywriting for yourself....Ok, this is getting wierd. Let's get down to the jobs before I mess up this post:

Search jobs for SEO copywriters at Indeed.com

what	where
job title, keywords or company	city, state or zip

Copy writers wanted on Craigslist - Every day there are new copywriting gigs posted on craigslist. This is a google search of craigslist.org specifically for finding copywriting jobs.

Jobster - Jobster.com is a job search engine which lists a large number of online and offline jobs for copywriters.

Looking for copywriting jobs? Do a search on Yahoo! HotJobs.

Timeout

Warning: This post has absolutely nothing to do with telecommute jobs, writers or in general any form, size or shape of visitor that I crave for and my sponsors crave for. So if you came here looking for some kind of job or something, feel free to wander about, search or rip apart any of the other posts on this site.

Take a good look:



You know what this picture says? It says - "TIMEOUT"
You know what the Iraq war needs? "TIMEOUT"
You know what you do when you get into a fight with someone you love? "TIMEOUT"

My point is it's all about love. You can fight and kill and hate and plunder, but ultimately the sun will dawn. The ashes of war will bring about a strong foundation for love and peace and unity. You can say that's naive. But it also happens to be true. You can't put out the fires raging in Iraq without hosing them over with love and friendship and peace and prosperity. So take all those military strategies and flush them down the loo. When you're done doing that, try uncorking some love, same as you see in the picture. Maybe, just maybe, you could win...

Wanted - Web Content Writers - Dead or Alive

In years gone by, before there was corporate hegemony and while there was still value for an individual's sweat, there used to periodic gold rushes. Meaning that someone, a lone prospector, would strike gold and become stinking rich. His story would spread far and wide and people from all over would turn up in and around the area to try and get a share of the pie. Merchants would set up shops and motels and whore houses just to provide service to these prospectors. In short order, there would be a bustling town living off the money which these prospecters brought in. This is what was known as a gold rush.

My point with all this blather is that we're going through a similar period on the internet. People are staking claims to ideas, domain names and topics by any means. Locking up all these and getting search engine traffic, the online equivalent of gold, is the key to open the door to a flood of internet gold. But search engine traffic needs content, a lot of content.

Which is where we writers come in - And we're wanted today in all shapes and sizes.. So long as you can deliver results, i.e. web content - Nothing else counts. You don't have to prove that you have a Ph.D in the required topic to write an article on it. You don't need to go to the local library to borrow a find a book and sit up all night poring over some mundane theory written a long time ago by some dead guy about which you have no freaking clue. It's fast, it's easy, it's hot and in demand and does not need you to go to college or a university and spend a couple of years of your life. So what's the catch? Plagiarism.

When you have people writing articles about topics which they are totally unfamiliar with, there's a big chance that these amateur writers will take shortcuts and quote without attribution. Now, it's almost impossible in today's internet to catch a digital copyright violation, unless you spend a lot of money to safeguard and keep track of your content via search engines. So what happens is that most of the time, this plagiarism goes unnoticed. Here's my advice to all web content writers - Before you start writing an article, spend at least one full day researching a topic if you don't know much about it. Once you understand a topic properly - The concepts, the industry terms, the people, the rules and laws and history of the sector - Then you start writing about it. After you finish writing, check your article from top to bottom and delete/rewrite any sentence or paragraph which you feel should not be there.

Now, an established writer, who's basically an expert in his field of expertise may have a sarcastic smirk if he reads this article for wannabe web content writers. But lemme tell you pal - Your days are numbered. Today's the time of the amateur writer - Who's an expert on any topic his employer wants him to write about. And it can and is being done. Just do it properly, ethically and without causing harm to yourself, your employer and your employer's clients.

You want proof? Here you are - Today's Telecommute jobs ( Mostly writing gigs ):

Web content writer wanted - Click here.

Website writers wanted - Click here.

Good web content writer needed - Click here.

Web content firm looking for writers - Click here.

Gaming blog looking for writers - Click here.

Television obsessed bloggers - Click here.

Transcription gig - Click here.

Technical Writer - Click here.

Sports website copy editor - Click here.

Freelance writers wanted - Click here.

Have I made my point? If you're still not convinced, come back tomorrow and I'll have more web content writing jobs for you...

Keyboard Error - Press F1 To continue

PayPerPost.com replied back to me saying that they're rejecting me because "My Blog Is Too Young". WTF???? I'm good enough for Google and Yahoo. I'm good enough for Performancing. I'm good enough for CommissionJunction. I'm good enough for sites which are "Not So Young" in my line of work - Telecommuting. I'm good enough for Technocrati and a multitude of Blog directories, sponsors and other people who find this blog interesting, are linking back to it. But I'm "too young" for PayperPost.com

Maybe this is just a case of sour grapes, but I am really pissed. Financially speaking, it's peanuts. But rejection always hurts, specially when you think it's not deserved. I fired an email back to them asking that my account be terminated immediately. But in typical blockhead mentality, there's no frigging reply to that....Go figure. Which is why I feel like I do when I see a message from his Holiness Bill Friggin Gates : Keyboard Error - Press F1 To Continue.

This is not to say that I'm stupid and don't understand their reasoning. They figure it's a new blog and won't be giving their advertisers the value for money promised. Well, they're wrong. Cause after a few months, they're gonna regret nixing this blog. Ok. Rant over.

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Final edit/editor( ?? Uh...) - Click here
Comment: This one is a bit strange, but it's God's work. If you get the gig, and if you're able to understand what he wants, and if you understand what he's done so far, maybe you can get the job done. Miracles do happen. But then, maybe not...

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Enjoy.

A penny for your prose

Bumped into an article on paid vs. free writing. I've seen a lot of blogs and a lot of sites, and on average I spend more than 10 hours a day reading crap on the internet. But this one article is not crap. I suggest you read the whole article.

A penny for your prose By Madonna Dries Christensen

Published by John Hewitt ( www.poewar.com )

Update: 'Strategery for staying The course' is a post related to this one.