writing for a living

[neena]

I'm just curious, has anyone here quit his permanent job to become a freelance writer ? Is it possible to make so much money online that you can eke out a comfortable living writing for others ? Many of my friends who've tried this, tell me that, they are able to make only some extra gas money out of writing but nothing much beyond that.

[hwang]

Well maybe years ago it's possible because from what I heard it was like 0.03 - 0.04 per words back then. Another thing is also because inflation rate was not that high.

But nowadays, competition has been great and there are people who I only offer up to 0.005 per word which I think is ridiculous...somehow like slave labor.

[life31]

Yes earlier it was considered a really good job but now due it the competitons its almost dead. But still you can make some good cash with it if I am not wrong.

At an average now you can get paid around $3 for 300 to 500 ords article so to get to the $300 mark youll need to write 100 articles May be if you can write 100 to 200 articles per month then you can make some resonable earning.

[hwang]

Yeah, reasonable earning enough to cover the extra gas increase but definitely not enough to get you out from your full time job. Maybe you can go for another way which is setting up a website and recruiting writer and then let publishers bid for articles.

[Llamalord]

If you have a number of PR6 sites which have a really big user/customer/reader base then you can make up to $300 a post per site, but thats not daily, When I had a PR4 on my main site I was making $80 a day 7 days a week for 7 months:

I made over all in my writing stage: $15680

[hwang]

Wow...that's really a lot man. Which niche is that? I'm sure you managed to get rank in first page of google for your article to attract that kind of traffic and the conversion rate. Or...is the money all come from pay per post?

[neena]

If you have a number of PR6 sites which have a really big user/customer/reader base then you can make up to $300 a post per site, but thats not daily, When I had a PR4 on my main site I was making $80 a day 7 days a week for 7 months:

I made over all in my writing stage: $15680

How much time did it take you to reach those magical figures lord ? You got really high PRs too. These days its really difficult to get such high PRs . However I was reading an article yesterday online and the guy compared the internet boom with the gold rush era. He said something very intresting, he said most people who rushed in to find gold, didn't get anything. The ones who actually made the money and made it big, were the people who provided the niche services. Levis, Cargos all came in coz of the need and they survived and went on to become household names.

[liowkc]

Writing for spare change is quite fun if you like writing. Writing for a living is real hard work and need lots of discipline.

[neena]

I always enjoy whatever I do liowkc, I never treat anything like work. But I am amazed at the rates people offer at places GAF and SL, its like people are fighting just to make $1 and thats kind of crazy. The worse part is that some of them will offer to write 20-25, 300 words articles in one day itself and this when they are niche articles requiring research. Wonder how they manage to do that at such a low price.

[hwang]

With the rates so low, I wonder whether there's quality to the content that they provide. It depends on the buyer. If he insist on rate and not quality, then I guess he don't mind about it. As I rarely come across good writer offering at such cheap rate.

[liowkc]

If you are writing at less than 1 cents per word, you are just like a factory production worker Usually unless you are really superb with your content, pure writing alone is not going to be enough, that is why many supplemented writng with other money making opportunities like affilate marketing and advertising etc

[hwang]

Just only came back from visiting another forum. I saw a guy setting an ad to get service of article writers and he's offering 0.008/word for the service. And the next thing I know, there are a line of writer waiting and offering to do the job. Wow....

Anyway, it's just counter productive because basically your time and commitment has taken out and if your intention is to earn a living by providing article, with the rate so low it will never materialize.

[liowkc]

Your observation is so pertinent, supply exceeds demand and many writers are willing to write for a piitance.