By Phil Guye


I'm usually curious whenever I see a web-based ad for writing job opportunities simply because, for one, I am a writer, but probably more so as there are so many different kinds of writing gigs.

When most of us think about writing jobs, we picture a newspaper position, or a novelist or even short story writer, but there are many other types of writing jobs that seldom spring to mind.

The other day I spotted an advertisement seeking a writer who can produce twenty articles on food and nutrition for a new web site that was introducing in a few months. The one who had put the ad wanted all of them within a month and was willing to pay $1,000 for the job.

What stunned me the most about this particular work was that it paid $500 to start, and $500 when the task was finished. All the writing job opportunities I've had compensated upon completion of the assignment.

I spotted one more position for a construction newsletter, which was one of the most exciting writing jobs I have come across mainly because it paid a yearly salary, with health insurance plus benefits, but was still regarded as a largely freelance gig.

One of the most fascinating writing job opportunities I have personally been offered was to write a book on a kind of cancer about which there is obviously not a great deal of literature. That's 1 of the few gigs I actually ended up turning down, for the reason that I have mainly been a journalism writer, and didn't really know the way to approach writing an entire book.

I've come across advertisements looking for essay writers, poetry, and, of course, the more unscrupulous aspects of adult material or college term papers. Writing work opportunities also come in all size and shapes, and it is certainly not a one- size-fits-all type of field.

I've often gravitated more toward newspaper and magazine writing because those are fields where I feel the most relaxed and know that I can do a good job. I have written a number of short stories and have attempted to write a novel, but those have typically not panned out for me the way in which other writing jobs have.

The best advice that I can provide to a particular person looking for writing work opportunities is to look for anything you can imagine yourself actually doing with a certain degree of competence, after which give it your best shot. I can say in all honesty that there's absolutely no worse feeling than engaging in a writing job where you realize very early on that you've gotten in over your head, or obviously have no clue what you are doing.




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