@PasswordNotFound wrote:
If you write, you're apt to make more money from book royalties than piecemeal.
Sure.... but then you have to write a book and people need to buy the book. Not as easy as it sounds.
I haven't done a lot of freelance writing in recent years, but it's just like mystery shopping. There are a lot of really low paying gigs sitting out there for the public to see, and you can cut your teeth on a few of them, get to know some editors and try to get some better paying gigs. For a while I was doing a gig for an ecommerce site where I had to write articles about things (ETA: things they were selling, like beds, gloves etc) using keyword optimization. It was possibly the most boring thing I have ever done in my life, but I made about $1000 doing this before I decided I had to stop or I would jump off the roof of my building.
That was because I had an editor that knew me from way back because I had done some restaurant reviews for a little paper she worked for. I did those basically for free. (will work for food lol) But it led to this other gig.
If mystery shopping is not steady and/or lucrative enough though, this type of writing might not be either. Just throwing it out there if you are trying to diversify a little. For me it's challenging to think about how one would make a living mystery shopping since you spend so much unpaid time looking for gigs and driving around so I gravitated toward suggesting things you can do from home/online.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2016 01:54AM by CeciliaM.