Freelance Writing Jobs for Monday, November 2, 2009

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writing work glasses How did it get to be November already? We start this week and this month with 52 freelance writing jobs, blogging jobs, editing jobs, translation jobs and creative gigs today; we may be moving into the end of the year slowdown..

How to get freelance writing jobs is a category listing articles about how to get freelance writing jobs and the article, How to land a writing job is an article aimed at helping you when you apply to one of the freelance writing jobs listed here.

If you land one of these gigs, let us know. OTOH, if you find one is a problem, let us know that too.

Low Paying Gigs:

Content editing-website-temp

Canadian writing job seekers may find what they want at the Canadian Freelance Writing Jobs Blog. Deb Ng publishes jobs at FreelanceWritingGigs as does Jennifer Mattern at All Freelance Writing. Problogger also posts blogging jobs.

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Tiffany November 2, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Ad # 42—Looking for Great Article Writer, sounds like a really great opportunity. But, I could not find how to apply or inquire about it. Maybe I didn’t check it out good enough or maybe you can look at it.
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Anne November 2, 2009 at 3:08 pm: nope, not so good… if you click on original posting it turns out to be a craigslist ad that has been deleted… our mistake

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Anne December 2, 2009 at 10:53 am: Tiffany, that one is over a month ago and it’s down now… I clicked on original post in tiny letters way at the bottom

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Carol Tice November 2, 2009 at 4:08 pm

I’m just loving #50…they need special expertise and only superstar writers should apply…to get paid $20 an article! Best of luck to them. I get $.50 a word and up for my legal-expertise writing. May the recession end soon and the desperate souls who take these radically underpriced gigs find full time work soon, allowing rates to return to sanity.

Carol Tice
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Jai Vij December 2, 2009 at 2:15 am: Hi Carol

I’m a professional writer with tons of experience looking to make a little extra cash where I can find it. What I find even more amazing than the radically under-priced gigs is the fact that so many people appear willing to snap them up at a moment’s notice. It is really frustrating. Do you mind sharing the name of the place that pays $.50 per word? Thanks

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Barbara November 2, 2009 at 11:39 pm

No. 7 is quite susupicious as I have never heard of anyone who would want an editor , saying: “No professional expertise is required of the editor.” Sounds like a phony ad if no “expertise” is “required.” Either that or perhaps they think they can pay someone close to nothing and get the job done. Don’t know, but my radar says stay away — could also be a scam.

Anne November 3, 2009 at 11:07 am: Always follow your own intuition.

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Brandi November 3, 2009 at 12:14 am

Thanks! Great list!
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Anne November 3, 2009 at 11:05 am: Thanks Brandi

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Carol Tice December 2, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Hi Jai –

Unfortunately the one big legal Web site I did a ton of work for I think is no longer at that rate, they went lower. But in general, any area of technical expertise there’s still plenty of $.50-$1 a word work out there. You need to target major corporations or well-funded startups, and companies that are trying to establish themselves as thought leaders. B2B also generally pays better than B2C, which I think many people stay stuck in. If you can explain surety bonds or employee benefits or software features or whatever to a sophisticated audience of pension fund managers or developers or whoever, that’s something companies have to pay well for, because there aren’t that many writers who excel at doing this in a compelling and accessible way.

Read on here for more on the low-pay problem — Best Thing You Can Do About L0w-Pay Writing Job Ads.
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Carol Tice December 2, 2009 at 2:11 pm