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I don’t think $100 for a 500-word article is crazy at all, assuming it’s actually an article and not just, say, a first-person blog post that doesn’t require research or interviewing or an SEO article. Particularly not for an experienced writer. In fact, I’d say it’s pretty low.

And I don’t say that because I feel all high and mighty and hoity-toity. If you charge $20 an hour, that’s five hours of work to make $100. Is a really good, well-researched article going to take you five hours to put together? In some cases, perhaps. Maybe you have to call and schedule interviews with two or three people, then conduct the interviews, then go through your notes, then go online to do additional research, then write, rewrite, edit and submit. In some other cases, maybe that article only takes you three hours to put together from start to finish, and so maybe $100 is high in that instance.

I guess what I’m saying is…let’s not hold ourselves back with our own low expectations.

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Pushing writers to jump from X to Y in an industry that doesn’t pay that high to begin with pretty much only sets them up for discouragement, don’t you think? It’d be far better to push the industry leaders who buy the content to understand how they discriminate between writer specialties instead.

Unless I’m missing something?

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I’ve written for some pretty big names in the web content world, and they don’t pay fortunes. It’s web content. It’s not the same industry – but tack ‘magazine’ onto ‘article’ and the rate jumps substantially.

Don’t let it get to you guys. You’re doing just fine, and you’re growing and you’re still here, working steadily, which is more than most people can say (especially those that brag, hm?).

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You are doing what you love doing, you have time with Dot, and you are in a good place. Measure your success by your happiness.

Here’s what I’m learning from both self-employment and parenthood: there are many, many ways to do things. Sometimes I wonder if I should be doing things differently, but then I realize that our differences are what makes life interesting. Be proud of what you’ve accomplished – it’s a lot! (I’m sure you know this rationally, but sometimes in can’t hurt to hear.)

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But then I remembered – I started my OWN business! I’m an editor for a webzine, and I’m paying people to write for it! For me, success isn’t measured by how much money I make or how often I’m published in a national mag. I consider myself successful because I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing.

And really, you know it doesn’t matter what anyone else, or even everyone else, is doing. You don’t really know how it is for them or what sacrifices they might have been forced to make to get or stay there.

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