Free Writing Jobs List

Here is the free writing job listing courtesy of Keybasher – remember – you get a gig out of this and you owe me a post on your life as a fellow keybasher!

Freelance Graphic Designer Needs Freelance Writer (Comp: Based on your freelance rates) (Denver Metro area)

Local Band Interview (Comp: Send rate) (Orlando)

Magazine Writer Needed ASAP – Contract (Comp: $150 to $300, depending upon experience

Part-Time Writer/Editor for CoverAwards.com (Comp: TBD based on experience) (New York; telecommute)

Creative Writer for a Children’s Magazine (Comp: per service provided) (Eastside, Seattle)

Need Simple Proofread/Edit for Small Project (Comp: Open) (Los Angeles)

English/French Canadian Translator/Copywriter (Comp: $25/hr freelance) (Los Angeles)

Freelance Writers (Comp: $75-$500 (depending on project)) (Tarrant County, TX)

Grammar or Writing Instructor for Adults (Comp: Negotiable and subject to class enrollment) (The Arsenal – Williamsburg, NY)

Freelance Travel Writers Needed (Comp: 50-100 pounds for pre-written articles, up to 1,000 pounds for paid assignments) (London)

Part-Time Medical Transcription (Comp: Send per-line rate only) (Fremont/Union City/Newark, CA; telecommute)

Freelancers for Healthcare Website Geared Toward 18-to-24-Year Old Males (Comp: Negotiable) (California)

Freelance Writer Needed (Comp: Paying gig) (telecommute)

Event Planning Company Needs Press Release (Comp: Please include your rate. I would prefer a flat rate) (Southern California)

Renewable Energy Grant Writing (Comp: Negotiable) (Reno/Tahoe)

Need Help Writing an Ad (Comp: I’ll pay per our negotiation) (Charlotte, NC)

SEO Content Writer/Rewriter (Comp: Send rates per word or per 1,000 word article) (telecommute)

Grant Writer (Comp: negotiable) (Brooklyn)

Freelance Marketing Copywriter (Comp: Not stated) (San Francisco)

Copywriter (Comp: TBD) (Financial District, Manhattan)

The Witching Hour

Midnight arrives with the cranking of the AC unit telling me to go to bed!

One hell of a day with trying to turn my initial thoughts on marriage into something productive – this is what I call a “challenge” or maybe “moral dilemma” is more appropriate?

Initial thought on marriage – “Don’t!”

Total pay and Word rate = 25 cents (kerrching!)

Requested words on marriage – 1,200

Total pay = $400.

Dilemma?  What dilemma?

I like eating the same as you so quit looking aghast at my capitalist urge not to socially starve – remember, hunger affects 1 in 8 Americans and I have no desire to be that 1!

This aside, my day has been productively spent spamming potential providers with work requests, story ideas, pleas for work and some of this grovelling has now paid off and my fingers can get 7 hours sleep.

Keybasher may live to eat another day perchance to dream of enjoying a diet more in keeping with his station than mere Kraft Mac’ & Cheese

Who am I kidding – it will be dried bread and water as usual!

Magazine Rejection Dejection Ejection

Today marks the 100th magazine rejection

Rejection is just part of the job and I’m trying to break into a new market and away from the technical hobgoblins and SEO copywriting which though simple and easy is boring and not so lucrative.

Like anything else, the more you ask the more people are going to say “No!” but eventually I will get to that special someone who says, “Yup! – 50 cents a word, i need 1,500 on Tokyo nightlife by next Friday – got that?  Good!”

Who’d have thunk it – editors as nice people?

Now I am dreaming in LaLa Land – those red pens are red for a reason – all that burning of poor scribes at the stake is what that represents and I ain’t fooled.

Undeterred it’s back to submissions and I have another rejection even as I write; I sense a conspiracy or I’m just not doing this right so rather than banging cerebellum against brick wall I think I’ll regroup and take another look at what they’re asking for and what I’m doing wrong.

All I can say is thank God the maintenance guy came and fixed the AC today now get back to work!