The Reality of Freelance Writing
Posted: May 20, 2013
Image from © dedMazay - Fotolia.com[/caption]Having a job as a freelance writer may sound like the dream job, right? Working from home, setting your own hours, sounds fantastic. Before you quit your job, take a second to look at the reality of freelance writing.
Image from © dedMazay - Fotolia.com[/caption]Having a job as a freelance writer may sound like the dream job, right? Working from home, setting your own hours, sounds fantastic. Before you quit your job, take a second to look at the reality of freelance writing.A recent Craigslist job posting invites readers to apply to write twenty or more 1,000-word online-marketing articles per week. The pay rate? Twenty dollars per article to start, thirty dollars each after the first ten articles, and forty or fifty dollars apiece after a couple of weeks.
The compensation for this work, after the initial fifty articles are written, is more than a thousand dollars a month — about fifty thousand dollars a year, a fair income for a freelance writer. But back up a bit: The writer is being asked to produce 20,000 words per week. At that rate, one could churn out a good-sized novel or nonfiction book each month — if not for the fact that writers are human beings who need to eat and sleep and would like to indulge in luxuries like recreation and socialization.
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