Freelance Writing Jobs Insight: Why Writing for Content Mills Can be Lucrative (and Fun)
August 12, 2010
Last Friday, I sent out the following tweet:
RE last tweet (ie, RT @LisaCollierCool: http://to.pbs.org/9zg76o). I disagree w/some of what’s said here & will address it in a post next wk
It talked about freelance writers who “toiled on content farms.” I respectfully disagree with a lot that was said in this post. The one thing that really stuck out to me though was the following.
Why You Should Never Believe What You Read on eHow.com
One freelance writer interviewed for the piece was quoted as saying:
I was completely aware that I was writing crap. . . I was like, I hope to God people don’t read my advice on how to make gin at home because they’ll probably poison themselves. . . . Never trust anything you read on eHow.com.
Maybe I’m naïve, but I was completely floored!
Many readers lambasted this writer in the comments section of the piece – which restored some of my equilibrium – and faith in my profession. You see, I was floored because in all of my years of freelance writing (since 1993), I’ve never once “knowingly” turned out crap.
I just can’t believe that someone would so willingly do this – and then have the “non shame” to admit to it. The basic argument made for this behavior was . . .
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it is also the part of freelance job
Freelance jobs had been quite famous, more and more people now a days are trying their luck to such kind of jobs for freelancing can give them the comfort of working at the time and place they want and be the own boss on their work.