Get Paid to Write Articles for the Serious Writer

For quite some time now, many people who have talent in writing have tried their hands in online writing and blogging. Writing and blogging has been one of the most promising works online that you will find. Whether you look for a writing job or publish your own materials online, it has been one of the most viable online opportunities. For the many average bloggers, there are various writing sites that we can join. The more serious and talented writers can join any writing site they want but sometimes, some of them may prefer to look for a site where they can get training for becoming a better writer.

There are writers who are so motivated and driven that they can work long hours. If you are one of them, and you are willing to take assignments and orders from an editor, these sites may be just the sites that you are looking for. Of course, they have higher standards and are stricter in many ways than the average writing site.

Yahoo! Contributor Network

Be a featured contributor in the Yahoo! Contributor Network. If you are one of the more serious writers who want to have regular assignments, you can try to apply to be a featured contributor and receive regular assignments. There are requirements and qualifications before you can become one of their featured contributors. And once you become one, you must maintain high levels of content quality and publishing activity. They can remove you from the program if you cannot be at par with their standards. So there is basically a high expectation from their featured contributor.

Featured contributors are paid through upfront payments and performance payments. For featured contributors who are not US residents, once you are dropped from the featured contributor program, you won’t be earning anything. Because contributors who are not US residents will not earn anything.

The Free Resource

The Free Resource is a fairly new site. They have just started in 2010 but it does look promising for the writer who is willing to get serious with writing. I’m not sure about the earning potentials of this site though. At the moment, it’s probably not a good choice for a good source of earnings.

The Free Resource is a site where they are proud to say that they don’t accept just anybody to become their writer. Each writer who applies for them goes through a screening process and should submit a sample article to ensure high standards in their site.

The Free Resource encourages journalists, librarians, educators, and researchers to join them. They encourage those with proven experience in research and writing. I must remind you though, that they have strict acceptance policies. Once you are accepted, you can’t remain inactive in that site. You must consistently publish 2 articles per month. If you have remained inactive for too long, your account with them will be closed due to inactivity.

About

Ready to work extra hard? Try about.com.

A typical guide to about.com publishes 4 articles every month for their first two years. If you think that’s hard, try to apply as a topic guide and you’d need to publish between 6 to 10 articles in one month at an average of 750 words. Whew! No time to complain if you’re qualified. You’ll have tons of work to do regularly. Aside from those regular published articles in your About account, a guide is expected to update their blog at least once every seven days. And a topic guide is expected to promote their content via a blog. Unless you are an articles churning machine, taking in this kind of responsibility is a full time job. Don’t forget that they also expect high standard of quality from your articles.

Before you can be a guide in About.com, you will be evaluated in the course of one month with 2 stages of screening process. Before you can become a topic guide, you will be given assignments in the course of three weeks after which, they will review your work. So, if you are into a full time job as a writer and you are qualified to write in this site, it probably won’t hurt you to check it out.

Bright Hub

Bright Hub offers both upfront payments and revenue sharing payments. Aside from that, you will enhance your talent through this site. So, if you are looking for a site that will help educate you further on your writing talent, this could be it.

If you are accepted, you will be writing in one of their 30+ channels like health, technology, science, and many others. And if you applied for their editorial community channel writer, you will receive an upfront payment as well as revenue sharing payments.

You will be assisted by an editor of Bright Hub on your article direction and quality. Most of your writing projects will be secluded in the channel category that you are accepted for. You will get proper training as they send you links on tutorials and materials for you to expand your knowledge on.