Writings of an Introvert

What’s Keeping You Busy These Days?

Ask me the question and I can tell you a lot of things. It’s not that I go out a lot. I am actually just stuck at home but it seems I had more to do being at home than being outside.Writing has been eating a lot of my time lately, and Poker (shhhh).

I use to not like Facebook but when I get to explore some of its applications, I got hooked with Texas Hold’em poker, and I was just so addicted to it. I’m glad it’s just about virtual chips, or else, losing 200 thousand dollars in one game would be so bad. Somehow, the rollercoaster feeling of winning and losing and winning again is insanely fun. Ron and I even find ourselves pounding on the table while waiting for flushes or a straight. I remembered one time a client asked me to write about poker and I just hated it (I don’t know how to play it back then), and I end up being careful not to pick topics about poker or online games. I love them but I hate to write about them. After all, games are better played, not written.

Anyway, I am also finishing up the latest on my Korean drama marathon. It’s called City Hall and it starred the funny actress who played Kim Sam Soon. She was just so hilarious, and I could not just stop myself laughing from episode to episode.

I used to tell myself not to be with the PC on weekends but it seems like it’s a whole different world to me now. It’s not just tabs and icons, it’s where friendship grows and fun begins. It has also been my ATM, my bank and my employer for some time now. It has also been a source of motivation - yeah, I write a lot of motivation and positive thinking articles and somehow, it has also given me the ‘push’ to be positive with life.

So that’s it. I am just actually giving myself a few minutes' break. I have to go and finish up this article on mentalism and mind control. This sure is interesting. Have to finish all up 'coz I will be stuck with paperwork in the next few days... and it's making me very excited!

The World of Freelance Writing

So I am back in the freelance writing world. Not new to me though. Years back, after my first stint in the Development Work, I was doing freelance writing for training documentations and research. Back then, internet marketing is not yet very popular, probably because it was not that very accessible (probably not to me), and freelance writing pays good.
Writing online has been a trend these days. Employers around the world, may it be individuals or companies are offering all kinds of writing jobs from blog writing to web content writing to rewriting jobs to technical writing... and the popular SEO writing... there are lots of them actually.

Sad to say, you can just have a mere $1.00 for a 500-word article. ..

And because of the demand, writers all over the world converge in freelancer's sites to bid for writing jobs. Bad thing, the price has gone down drastically. Competition is stiff. Freelance writers from non-English speaking countries abound to offer their 'excellent, grammatical-error free' English.

Of course, you can also see native speaker-writers trying to get to the top of the ladder the same way as those who are selling their software-manipulated rewrites or those who are even struggling to get the right words to say in their bids.

Sad to say, you can just have a mere $1.00 for a 500-word article. Or else, you still need to negotiate hard for your rates. I once tried negotiating for a mere $2.00 rate for a 500-word rewrite and the buyer just told me he can already get an original article for that rate. tsktsktsk.

If you are lucky enough, you can get a client who pays for what your writing is really worth. Or if not, at least a decent amount for a decent article. Somehow, as writers, we always have that sense of responsibility to our readers and provide them good articles that are worth reading.

Even if sometimes we do not get credit for the articles we write, we still have that dedication in writing good because it is our passion, and we always want our readers to be correctly informed.

Hopefully, freelance writing online would not just mean getting web traffic and writing for other's profit but also giving online readers the accurate information they are looking for.