Article Writing

Not exactly money saving as much as money making! When most people get to the age of 50 or beyond, they have a whole host of interesting experiences in their brains. Article writing can pay very good dividends. Since the PC became common, writing is a lot easier than it was. No more messing about re-typing mistakes or dealing with carbon paper. Images of very high resolution can be burned on CDs or sent over the internet using a home PC. Articles with images can be sent World-Wide by e-mail. Payment rates are usually excellent.
Highly recommend pastime for the older person.
hobbyman

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  • Voyager2002
    Voyager2002 Posts: 16,095 Forumite
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    Alas, publishers have always been besieged by boxloads of manuscripts. Only a tiny minority are of publishable quality. And of course there is an entire industry of 'vanity publishing', where the author pays the publisher to print their book.
  • hobbyman
    hobbyman Posts: 40 Forumite
    That is very true, of course. But if you don't try, you don't suceeed. I write regular articles and have had one book published, but from the time they accepted it, to publication was about 18 months and I don't have the patience for that sort of thing. But I now write e-books and burn them onto disks myself and sell them (the disks) online. In that way, I am fully in control of the situation and find they sell well enough. I print one hard copy for myself and have it bound in town. Took one in this morning and it cost £2.50 to spring bind a copy (A4 size).
    Just an idea, but you do have to have something to write about.

    hobbyman
  • RadoJo
    RadoJo Posts: 1,828 Forumite
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    Hobbyman - do you have any advice on actually getting article published? There are thousands of sites out there where you can submit content, but actually getting paid for it is a different matter. Do you have any pointers towards success?
  • hobbyman
    hobbyman Posts: 40 Forumite
    It is always best to write about a subject you know well. When I started, I got a Writers & Artists Year Book that gave the addresses of all the publications (World Wide) and what they paid. Articles don't necessarily have to be all that long, sometimes only a few hundred words. One drawback is that after acceptance, it often takes months before they publish and pay) for them. I once tried to get round this by sending one to a publication that said "payment on acceptance." They acknowledged receipt of it, but a full year passed before I got a letter saying they had accepted it and enclosing a cheque!

    The Year book is quite expensive, but it will no doubt be in a reference library or a local library could get a copy.

    hobbyman
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