Saturday, May 24, 2008

Online writer

About a month ago, i signed up to an online writing opportunity. I was just surfing thru and chanced upon this site, hoping that i'd earn some bucks writing essays or articles of what sorts. Hey, i need to justify my long hours in front of the computer you know. Plus, I need to recharge my brain cells every now and then, so this should be a good exercise. ;)

To be honest, I was scared at first coz the site might not be legit and i might just find myself wasting a lot of reading and composing essays for topics that made me reminisced my college days. I took one assignment first and waited until i get paid, before i get serious with accepting more assignments.

Happy, i saw an email today informing me that they've sent my pay thru paypal. yey! so they really do pay. so after checking my paypal, i logged in immediately to academia-research.com and requested more assignments. haha. My first assignment was a two-page essay that made me $25 richer. I only got the cheap ones first so i won't blame myself so much should the site be illegit. ;)

I know online writing may not be for everyone but just in case you're interested, here are a few tips i got:
~ you'd have to write an essay when you apply so be prepared for it.
~ it's an advantage that you love reading and writing (err, of course!)
~ you get to choose the assignments you can request so make sure that you get the topics that you think you have knowledge of and that you are interested with.
~ request for small-amount projects first. it's easier to complete a number of short projects rather than one long project. You'd get bored easily or you'd end up fighting with the customer.
~ a project can pay you from $20 to $100 each. not bad huh?

There, just go to the site and happy writing!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hey "Jacque of all trades"! heheheh, very fitting ha :)

enjoy writing! Methinks freelance writing is the greatest job there is :) Of course, if I can only finish the story I'm doing now :P I suck in creative writing! why can't my all projects be editorial? *sigh* :(

congrats on your new site again!