You do not have to be educated in the art of writing to be a freelance article writer anymore. As long as you can put a sentence together that makes sense, and you have decent punctuation, you are a writer. You can work writing articles for websites and e-zines. The pay is not great, but then you did not pay to be educated in that specific occupation anyways.
If you are a well educated writer, this gig might not be for you. The pay is lousy, and the work is often time consuming and hurried. Everything needs to be done right away, which leaves little time for in-depth research or to get too creative. You must have quality content, and make sure that the keywords are used enough within the article.
This is a highly underpaid occupation in the Internet world. There are so many people vying for the same jobs, and many of those trying for the jobs are from under developed countries where a few bucks goes a long way. This is not the case for those writers that live in industrialized nations where the economy is high.
As long as writers continue to accept the low pay for their hard work, this will be the norm for the future, and it has already started to affect some of the freelance article writers for magazines. They find a cheaper way to get the articles that they need, they will move from a writing staff to outsourcing.
The cheap article writers make a living by quickly pushing out articles. The quality is not closely monitored. In the world outside of the Internet a writer can make good money either as a staff writer or a freelance writer. Will this continue or will the trend of the cheap article writer catch on in the real world as well?
If one is a good writer and can deliver quality content then they should be paid for what those skills are worth. That is the problem though, quality is not as strictly adhered to anymore as long as the content is readable and makes a fair amount of sense, and the key words are in there, then that is acceptable.
People should be paid according to skill set, talent, education, as well as other aspects according to their specific occupation. Good writers should be paid for good writing. Educated writers should be paid for their education. The scary thing for writers is how fast that the freelance writer is invading other writing markets. The low pay is something that many are looking at while quality is expected; it is not strictly monitored especially in the website writing market.
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