Writer Wrangler

As a working writer you may need down time to sharpen your brain and to get ready to write again.

I am going to add posts about downtime projects that can refresh your imagination and revive you… So you can get back in there and write, write, write!

Wordle is the first installment of “fun” mind sharpening suggestions. Wordle is toy for generating “ beautiful word clouds” from text that you provide. You can copy and paste, add a website url  or add a del.icio.us user name to see their tags.

The clouds show words that appear more frequently as larger and you can subtract words you do not like and make a work of art out of any word text you like. Just think how cool your recipes could look with there own little piece of artwork on the top!

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I’m not interested in jumping into the ongoing war about content mills and pricing for freelance writing today, but I will point you toward a blog post on the topic.

Carson Brackney’s post about content mills and those who hate them is worth reading.  Even if you don’t agree with him 100%, I think you’d have to admit he makes a few good points.

If nothing else, he gets bonus points for mentioning Denny’s, West Side Story, endongo lyre music and Tiger Woods in a single post!

Read it here:  Content Mills, Angela Hoy, Search Engines and the Quality of Online Writing

~Corena

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By Lil’ Herbert Fuchida

I’m sure someone out there in Writerland is doing a wonderful job of finding good jobs on Craigslist. If you’re that person, you’re the exception to the rule.

Overall, Craigslist has become one of the worst possible places to go gig hunting. Somewhere along the way, the soulless scammers and thieves and the self-righteous elitists of the online content world all decided to make a stand on the free classified site.

The Evil Forces

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By Writer Wrangler Writer Rhonda Day

What’s up with all of these symbols and why does it matter anyway?

As a writer, it is essential to know how to properly use the trademark, service mark, and registered symbols. The proper usage of symbols is important for articles, blog posts, Adsense blurbs, and everything that will be read by someone else.

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by Carson Brackney

Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way…

In terms of online success, content is critical. That’s why people are willing to pay you to write.

Furthermore, good content is important. We can all come up with a nice long list of reasons why businesses should invest in high quality material. No matter how sick you may be of hearing it, that “good content is king” thing is true.

Finally, none of us have a convincing way of defining the amorphous concept of “quality content”. We try, but at least four things prevent us from constructing a clear, brightline definition: Read the rest of this entry →

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Where the Best Articles Rise to the Top
 Another Writer Wrangler Review By Zoe Day

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Another Writer Wrangler Writer’s Review
By Zoe Day

Being a writer for online or offline content is the passion of many people who have the skills, experience, and desire to write. Finding the best opportunities possible should be foremost on a writer’s mind. An independent journalist and freelance writer achieving recognition and fame through the creation of hundreds and thousands of credible, high quality, reputable articles, eBooks, and other content is a dream come true for most.

But getting that experience may just time some time, ingenuity, and creativity. WriterWrangler offers lots of opportunities for freelance writers and authors to create unique, high quality content. There are other sources of writing opportunities that can help you expand your reach and improve your writing skills in the process.

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By Lil’ Herbert Fuchida

If you know me, you know I’m on a one man mission to blow up all of those nasty freelance writing scams.  Every once in awhile, I spend a little time here detailing the latest and/or not-so-greatest techniques being used to rip off writers.  In the spirit of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, I thought we could talk a little bit about fine-tuning your freelance writing scam sensors.

Those baddies are always cooking up new ways to use and abuse writers.  If you want to advance through the online freelance writing world without getting ripped off, you simply must develop the ability to see a scam coming.

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By Lil’ Herbert Fuchida

Every once in awhile I contribute a post here exposing the latest and not-so-greatest scams perpetrated upon my brethren in the contet writing community.  

Whether it be the slimy Craigslist people who are making a living off of free samples or the wannabes with empty pockets promising “higher rates in the future”, I detest all of those creepy scam monkeys and love ratting them out.

However, the job of a scam hunter is complicated when his own compadres litter the search engines with specious claims of being scammed.

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Kill the Custom Sample Scam Zombie

By Writer Wrangler Writer
 Li’l Herbert Fuchida

Never, ever give a client a custom “sample”. Period.

Scams are like zombies. No matter how much you beat them up, no matter how many limbs you sever, no matter how many times you empty a revolver into their chest cavity… They just keep on going! If you want to transform the undead back into the regular dead, you gotta take off their heads.

And that’s what I’m going to try to do today. I want to take a long-running scam that chews up writers like a zombie chews up brains and rip its head off. In that spirit, let me repeat the first line of this post:

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