Go to The Opinionated Critic
- Add a comment
- Go to Low Paid Writing - A Semi Rant
Hmm, this explains a lot....
for example it tells me the reason why I have completely given up reading any of the women's magazines because it is pretty much the same information regurgitated 7 ways to Sunday. It explains how writers can even eke out enough money to survive as a writer if they are lucky. It doesn't explain how they can stick with rewriting the same content without being bored out of their minds...but I guess you do what you have to do.
posted by
FactorFiction
on
April 9, 2005
at
12:09 PM
| |
reply
Nah, I won't tell you to shut up.
This is a 'good reminder' rant.
posted by
word.smith
on
April 9, 2005
at
8:27 AM
| |
reply
Whim, you've got me thinking it's time to branch out
to other lower paying writers markets. Hmm...30 here 50 there adds up.
posted by
Oceandancer
on
April 9, 2005
at
6:47 AM
| |
reply
Amen!!!
Couldn't have said it better myself. And, those $15 articles add up in a hurry to buy baby those new shoes, and more. :)
posted by
RachelAnna
on
April 8, 2005
at
9:45 PM
| |
reply
Their "fine print" has some holes.
Don't they want rights to exclude your producing the work in book form ("book" is not mentioned but other media are), through media such as self-publishing where you do not submit your work per se, or broadcast or performance? What about foreign rights?
posted by
majroj
on
April 8, 2005
at
9:02 PM
| |
reply
The "Darwinian Table", then...
Heinlein used the phrase "left-handed red-headed people" as an example of a rare subgroup of people in one or two stories, and it accreted.
posted by
majroj
on
April 8, 2005
at
8:49 PM
| |
reply
How'd you know I was left handed?
Taking the kids out to eat now. Wish us luck. Survival of the fittest, that's for sure.
posted by
Whim
on
April 8, 2005
at
3:37 PM
| |
reply
Blogit could be/ought to be a network of sources for such work!
So many people, so many careers, so much time sitting at a keyboard...you'd think one could go to "Community" or some such, post a query, and get as many left-handed, red-headed Tasmanian firefighters as one could want for such articles.
posted by
majroj
on
April 8, 2005
at
3:13 PM
| |
reply
Every Press release
Annual report and brochure that I wrote in the corporate world was never credited to me. I agree fully with Whim. You can't resell that exact article but you can re-work it to sell some other time to someone else. KlaraRoberts told me that you can write it once and sell it forever! and frankly $30 is $38 CDN and that buys me dinner!
posted by
MerryAnne
on
April 8, 2005
at
1:43 PM
| |
reply
NO...please don't shut up. All valid points. And I'll have to take another look at those options. I hadn't thougth about revising the article to use the same information again in another way. One other thing that came to mind was that when I'm working for $30/hr for some company, they still own all the rights. So it's really not that much different than the full time job...and maybe you can make more per hour with those revisions.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on
April 8, 2005
at
1:12 PM
| |
reply
excellent info..
write for cash and recently constant content has been keeping food on my dinner table.
posted by
homegirl
on
April 8, 2005
at
12:50 PM
| |
reply
Low-paid writing is a double-edged sword. Of course it offers a stepping stone for people trying to get started but on the other hand because so many people will write for next to nothing, there is a danger of the whole business of writing being devalued even more than it is.
I feel a post coming on...
posted by
Azur
on
April 8, 2005
at
12:20 PM
| |
reply
Copy (or write down) this comment's web address (URL), which is:
Next, go to the email or web page where you want to link to this comment, and paste
(or type) the web address.
