Values

When I read through the various job boards, news and forum for writers and content producers, I began to ask me, this is not the worst time in history, to try his living as a writer? To put it quite fair, I was not, "says Bill Shakespeare and Ralph Emerson tried to make a living creating their written conversations. Yet I feel at this time, will make it correspondingly more difficult, do not you write a full-time job.

In the heyday of the glossy publications and magazines subscriptions, with its staff writer and globe-trotting journalist who made his living as a contribution to this thriving enterprise well-paid job. You could build a life and support a family on a career that might be expected, and his journalistic style and integrity are valued and rewarded. In these days that has the misfortune of having to choose English or journalism as his major in school, are competing for moderate messages from online publications that pay for a pittance and not anything else worth, how many partners References You can work in a more naturally like - items and still allows at least a bit.

OK, was the last piece is a rant, I admit. But who has noticed how hard it is to be accepted as a co-author these days? The largest group of online writing talent, Demand Studios, Suite 101, Associated Content, all have so many writers, as they can handle - as blogs and posts on the forum is clear from the hundreds of rejected candidates. There are lots of articles published on these pages, which tell you precisely navigate the burning tires and yawning gaps, to be recruited by these companies pretend. And if you succeed and randomly from one of these "respectable" institutions will accept, you can use about $ 10 for the privilege of an article in a simplified style, with an appropriate number of product or company names and writing notes to the infamous 9th Grade reading level.

Yes, I realize that someone else was rant. But if we writers do not begin to write on our principles and demand fair pay for good and researched materials, we are implicitly responsible for the decline in standards of what we read and write. You know, we all know that it is a difficult time to earn our living in the industry, we have chosen to do, but it is our choice if we are still involved in the steady erosion of standards and quality. If we refuse to compromise on our values, but to write articles and teaching, we are proud to say that we all win. So we make a pact between us to begin to raise standards to a level that we all will remember us. Write to the quality in mind. Write a higher standard. Write proud. Demand excellence from himself and demand a reasonable compensation for your work. Only then will we begin to take back the principles laid down by our literary heroes.