Freelance Writing Jobs

You know what? I like talking about the weather. It’s beautiful outside. Hopefully some of you full-time freelancers out there remembered to spring forward since you didn’t have a bunch of annoying bosses and coworkers to sit around and complain about it! Personally, I gave myself an extra hour of sleep. Now, on to the freelance writing jobs!

The Freelance Writing Jobs

Food Writer – Chef’s Tango Magazine, a new online publication, is seeking writers with food and restaurant experience to help make their new site a star. This is a high-gloss upscale magazine that is aimed at the intersection of the food producer and the food consumer. To apply, I would recommend pitching a few proposals for articles and sending some of your best clips. This freelance writing job pays $100 per 600-word article.
Product Review Blogger – are you a gadget geek? Can you put together awesome reviews for tons of products? If so, this is right up your alley. MetaEfficient.com is looking for a good writer to make awesome reviews. To apply, send in a demo write up with a photo. This freelance writing job pays $100-200 per article.
Content Writer – this one is a bit short on the details so it’s likely they’re a first-time buyer. It is your job to make sure that they understand a fair rate of compensation. From what I can surmise, you’ll be creating content for a local apartment rental site. Bid strong! This buyer looks like they have realistic compensation expectations. This freelance writing job pays a minimum of $1,000 depending on the Elance bid.
Ghost Blogger – Microscan, a company that makes bar code readers and vision systems, is looking for a ghost blogger to produce one article and one interview per week, which will be paid on a per article basis. In this case, it’s the same as the previous posting. Bid competitively! This freelance writing job pays a minimum of $1,000 depending on the Elance bid.
SEO Content Writer/Editor – an SEO hotshot editor/writer is needed to finish this awesome project. You’ll be going over about 8,000 words to make sure that they’re pitch perfect for the web. Submit a kickass proposal with previous examples of your work and bid strong. This freelance writing job pays a minimum of $1,000 depending on the Elance bid.

Freelance Writing Job Tip of the Week

Beware of ads that ask you to have passion. I know that might sound a little odd because of course, as a writer, you are going to have passion for a topic. The only issue with that is many employers take advantage of people they view as hobbyists and pay them a much lower rate because they’re already passionate about a topic. I’m not telling you not to bid on projects that excite you, because you should by all means! But if an employer posts a job asking you to be passionate about a topic, they are about to pay you $.001 a word. I will guarantee it.

Worst Freelance Writing Job of the Week

looking for strong business writers or writer with a english major that can write business related topic or history topics . 2 years of college min. Must know APA and MLA formats. Pay is 300 a week for 5 days a week , min 7 pages a day or we can do less days a week the pay would be reduced based on days that you could work.

Weekly salaries
300.00 week 5 days a week
120 week for 2 days min 7 pages a day
500 week full time writer 5 days week min 10 pages a day. Must be good at writing almost on any topic.

Full time writer needed 500 week needs to be able to do 10 pages min a day 5 days a week.

Looking for Ethics writer as well. Philosophy writer needed as well.

If you think that you’re going to get a full-time writer to pump out at least 200 pages a month for $2,000 (that is way below $.01 per word, by the way), you definitely might need input from an ethics writer too. It’s pretty clear that the rate of compensation on this job is terrible. Here’s what bugs me most about it though. Notice that they change the duration of time when talking about certain things. They talk about the rate of compensation per week, but then discuss the daily output of work necessary. See that? They don’t want you to figure out that you’d be working your ass off for around $100 a day. Not very mathy? Get a friend who is. These gigs very commonly ensnare newbie writers because they’re so vague on terms.

If you’d like to look through longer aggregated lists of freelance writing jobs to help you save time in your job search, All Freelance Writing recommends Anne Wayman’s freelance writing jobs at AboutFreelanceWriting.com.

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