Writer’s Weekly has a letter from a writer who says:
I took a writing job last week with a newer company that wasn’t paying much, $2 an article, but to me every penny counts… Anyway, I was assigned five articles on Saturday and understood they had to be turned in on Monday. Which was fine, I got them done in plenty of time.
On Tuesday there was an email stating that the articles were no good. The client wanted to go in a different direction so now they wanted six or seven articles on each of the five topics.
Read what happened to this writer, who wrote five articles in good faith.
There are many of these article-writing “jobs” online. They’re not worth the effort. No writer can write for $2, or $5 an article. The writers who do, usually copy and paste to “change” articles they’ve found elsewhere online. Of course, this is plagiarism, but these writers are so naive they don’t realize that it is.
The people who are buying this kind of content are not naive. They are, as Angela Hoy pointed out, jerks. They’re also likely to get their Web sites taken down when they receive notification of copyright infringement under the DMCA. The writers who write for them may also be sued for copyright infringement.
Even if you’re a brand new freelance writer with no writing credits, you should be getting at least $25 an hour. Stay away from these so-called writing “jobs”. They’re not worth the effort. You may not even get paid. And if you do “change” material you find online, you stand a good chance of getting sued.
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