An ad I found for a blogger:
Much of the content you will generate can be based on daily events and news over the blogsphere.
So let’s see a minimum of 4000 words a month for $250 = SIXTEEN CENTS PER WORD!!!! I hope they get what they pay for.
Collateral Damage
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
16 cents/word sounds pretty awesome if the other markets you know are SFF. If only that’s what they were offering!
Except, you know,
200 words/post
x 5 posts/weekday
x 20 weekdays/month
= 20,000 words/month,
so it’s actually 2.5 cents/word.
Which SFWA wouldn’t regard as a pro market.
But then, this way you do get your bloggers’ press pass, with free admission to the Olympics and other athletic contests.
Wait, you don’t?
Y’know, there was a reason I was a liberal arts major.
Those rates are why I’m always amused that fiction markets bother paying at all.
I think innumeracy among liberal arts majors may be the problem. The pay for this gig ranges between 2.08 cents per word and 6.25 cents per word with an average of 3.125 cents per word. See the math (http://bit.ly/3e3sU8) The question is… Did you submit writing samples? What was the competition like? This message brought to you by a fellow Liberal Arts Major.
CD, in fiction, you get paid in copies of your work, right? At least in the literary fiction world of those nice chapbooks.
Same goes here — except it’s unlimited copies of your work on the web. Just hit refresh, I guess.
Hey Phil,
My innumeracy is not so bad as to make me submit samples for this. 20+ years as a professional writer means I know what my ROI is.