Digg it!The advantages of working from home include:
- You take out gas or transportation cost
- You can work and rest anytime you want
- You can set you own phase
The disadvantages of working from home:
- You have less interaction with people
- Initial expense of setting up
- Lack of separation between home and work
If you are hellbent on working from home, check these options out.
10. About.com
Description: Offers a compensation plan of a base monthly payment combined with incentives for pageview growth On average, a Guide in his or her first two years will make between $675 and $1,200 a month with a potential to earn thousands of dollars a month.
Freelance Writing Job Submission Guidelines
You need to apply to become an About.com Contributor. You will go through a two-step evaluation process:
Stage 1: Submit an Application
If they select your application, you’ll start in Stage One, a two-week period where you’ll write three blog posts and several articles with the guidance of an editor. At the end of Stage One, the editor will review your writing skills and ability to integrate editorial suggestions to determine whether or not you’ll continue on to Stage Two
Stage 2: You’ll learn to use our publishing tools and publish the content you created in Stage One to a test site over a second two-week period. As in Stage One, your editor will review your work and make comments and suggestions for improvement. At the end of Stage Two, your editor will evaluate your work and the work of anyone else in Stage Two for the same topic and make a hiring decision in conjunction with other members of our editorial staff.
As per their site, they are looking for these qualities:
Writing Ability: A strong writer whose content is not only informative and factual, but compelling enough to make you want to read more. Because we trust our Guides to publish their own content, we’ll also be looking for writing that is free of spelling and grammar errors.
Web Formatting Comprehension: Someone who grasps the idea of formatting for the Web (whether from prior experience or from our evaluation materials), organizing their content into clear, easy-to-understand sections with effective use of bold text and bulleting.
Topic Expertise: An expert in the subject area with the knowledge and ability to cover the basics with ease and the passion to research anything they don’t already know.
Desire to Educate: A teacher who can communicate the basics of the topic to a beginner audience in a way that’s not only easy for a novice to understand, but interesting, too.
Passion: Someone whose love for the topic motivates them to see being a Guide as an opportunity to write in-depth about something they love. Writing for About.com is a long-term investment of time and energy, and the Guides who treat the job as a labor of love tend to do the best.
Country: USA
Pay: $675.00 per month
9. Asimov’s Science Fiction
Description: An established market for Science Fiction stories that is published monthly.
Freelance Writing Job Submission Guidelines
They have an online submissions form for fiction asks for your name, email address, cover letter, story title, and story. Your cover letter should contain the length of your story, your publishing history and any other relevant information (e.g., if you send us a story about a medical disaster and you happen to be an emergency room nurse, mention that.).
All stories and poems should be in standard manuscript format and can be submitted in either .RTF or .DOC format. For information about standard formatting, see William Shunn’s guide to Proper Manuscript Format. After you have submitted your work, a tracking number will be displayed and an automated email confirmation containing this information will be sent to you. If you have not received this email within twenty-four hours, please notify us by email. Your tracking number will allow you to monitor the status of your submission through our website, so please don’t lose it.
Country: USA
Pay $.05 – $.06 per word for 7500 – 12,500 stories
8. Boys’ Life
Description: A general-interest, monthly, magazine published by the Boy Scouts of America. “We buy first-time rights for original, unpublished material”.
Freelance Writing Job Submission Guidelines
NONFICTION. Major articles run 500 to 1,500 words; payment is $400 to $1,500. Subject matter is
broad. We cover everything from professional sports to American history to how to pack a canoe. A look
at a current list of the BSA’s more than 100 merit badge pamphlets gives an idea of the wide range of
subjects possible. Even better, look at a year’s worth of recent issues. Find the magazine in libraries and
in BSA council offices. Query Senior Editor Paula Murphey.
Departments run up to 600 words; payment is $100 to $400. Department headings are science, nature,
earth, health, sports, space and aviation, cars, computers, entertainment, pets, history, music—and
others. Each issue uses seven departments, on average. We also have back-of-the-book how-to features.
Query Associate Editor Brad Riddell.
FICTION. Our short stories are assignment-only. Please do not query or send manuscripts. Unsolicited
manuscripts will be returned unread.
STYLE. All articles for BOYS’ LIFE must interest and entertain boys ages 6 to 18. Write for a boy you
know who is 12. Our readers demand crisp, punchy writing in relatively short, straightforward sentences.
The editors demand well-reported articles that demonstrate high standards of journalism. We follow The
New York Times “Manual of Style and Usage.”
We receive approximately 40 queries and unsolicited nonfiction manuscripts per week. Because of our
high standards, all of our articles are commissioned; thus, unsolicited nonfiction manuscripts rarely are
appropriate for publication and regrettably must be returned unread.
Country : USA
Pay : Pays between $100 and $400. Major articles pay from $400 – $1500
7. Broken Pencil
Description: A website and print magazine published four times a year that is devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts.
Freelance Writing Job Submission Guidelines
Broken Pencil accepts zines, ezine urls, books, videos/films, music recordings, and mail-art for review. There are no deadlines for submitting to Broken Pencil as we are an ongoing project. To submit you must mail your work to us at PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S7 CANADA or email your ezine url to editor@brokenpencil.com. If you are mailing us something to review, please include on a separate piece of paper the following information: name of publication, name of the creator/publisher, the price (please note whether or not that price includes postage), and the contact mailing address and email. We will not review material that does not have contact information. We look forward to seeing your work, but keep in mind that Broken Pencil reserves the right to review whatever it feels like, and may not review a particular publication for a variety of reasons.
Country: Canada
Pay Up to $100 – $400
6. A Cup of Comfort
Description: Anthology series. Each volume is filled with uplifting true stories about the relationships and experiences that comfort, inspire, and enrich our lives.
Freelance Writing Job Submission Guidelines
YOUR BOOK PROPOSAL SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
A description of the intended market for the book
An explanation of why someone would want to buy the book
A summary of the author’s background
A table of contents, as detailed as possible
A sample chapter
ADDITIONAL REQUESTS:
Do not send in the whole manuscript.
We do not accept electronic submissions at this time.
We will contact you only if we are interested in your proposal.
If you wish to have any material returned, include a self-addressed and stamped envelope. We accept no responsibility for proposals and manuscripts.
The volume of submissions does not allow us to accept phone calls or e-mail or other inquiries, or to provide comments or feedback on unsolicited manuscripts.
Country: USA
Pay : Pays $100, and a $500 Grand Prize awarded to one story per volume.
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