Originally Posted by
Ricky
I applied for a freelance writing position with Screen Rant last week and was pretty happy when they offered me the position a couple days ago. Now, reading all the documents, trainings, and guidelines they sent along, I'm less enthusiastic. The features would be 1,000 words, which is fine for the ~$10-30/article payment structure, but they when you factor in: the edits they want you to go back and do, adding/editing images for each article, creating headlines, keywords, and text for social media optimization, writing a shortened article of the one you already wrote, adding links to other Screen Rant articles within your text, checking in with the editors and mentors, and everything else, you'd end up spending a few hours per article. Multiply that times the 15 they require you to do per month and that's dozens of hours I could be spending on my own writing.. I'm thinking I'm going to pass on the opportunity.