Looking for writers for Rainbow Foods Blog

Hello All,

I just started a blog and I am looking for writers who maybe interested in making $20 per article. Basically, I am covering everything from food forests to homesteading and integrative medicine (if you specialize in that). All articles will be fact checked and scanned for plagiarism, looking for 300 words and a couple of photos. Your name will be on the article and I will send out the final edited version to you before it is posted. Payment is received after article posts. For more information, please contact me. I am really excited about starting a community food based blog that everyone can learn and connect with.

Thank you and Happy New Year.

I think the blog is a great idea! I've been thinking about publishing more of my written works, and I will try to get on the computer and look through my archived articles to see if I have anything which you may find helpful.

Sounds like a great blog.

Would you be willing to link to it here?  I bet people would love to read it.  

I had considered this at first, but came to a different conclusion after a little consideration. My concern is honestly with the pay.

There is no way as a writer, I could generate a 300-word story on a Permicultural Topic in what amounts to an hour of pay. I realize 300 words is not much, but I could not write a 300-page article in a hours’ time, much less edit it enough for submission, fact-check my own writing, take photos, and then send it in to you in sixty minutes time. And that is suggesting $20 per hour is adequate for intellectual work. For freelance writing, the going rate is more like $40 per hour.

Now I confess, I could do all that before lunch, but that is at least four hours of work, and so that is pretty simple math; about $5 per hour.

Now granted a person could throw together an article, find some previously taken photos, and do some spot-checking of facts, in an hour perhaps, but this gets into some deeper problems; hidden costs and quality. At some point, I have taken those photos, so for someone to use them, I should have fair compensation. In short, it takes time to set up a good photo. Maybe not an hour per photo, but time for sure. And that relates to quality to, because do you really want a hastily thrown together permicultural article that has photos that kind-of-fit the situation, just because it was a hastily put together article?

I realize that I spend far more than an hour on Permies, and I post photos all the time, and none of that is monetarily compensated, but it is my gift to people maybe do not have 45 years of farming and homesteading experience. My posts are also full of spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes, and photos are ones I have kicking around on my computer. In short, there is no expectation of quality writing for a forum reply.

I do not think your intention was malicious, but the suggestion of $20 is a pretty good slap in the face to writers on here. When the expectation is for professional writing skills, it really should be properly compensated. In the working world, that is known as “a living wage”, but goodness, even if an article took only two hours to come up with, the cited pay is still $2 under minimum wage.

As writers, we have to watch out for this sort of situation otherwise we will be wordsmithing for not.

I agree with Travis, for the most part. I would expect to see significantly more in terms of guidelines and suggested or needed topics, simply to cut down the amount of time it would take to produce 300 publishable words in an hour.

If it was set up, for instance, as packets of articles and a hypothesis that needed assessing in the 300 word range, it might be more manageable. Some could do it. But I would contend that those who could, and well, still deserve to be compensated on the level Travis suggests.

I also don't believe there is any malice in the suggestion, but some market research might be in order, vis a vis the appropriate compensation of content creators.

-CK

I'm tempted.

I agree, 300 words take a long time to polish.  Much more time than 1200words.

If there was a link to my book included in the price, it would be worth while to me, but I would need to know more about existing site traffic and the terms and conditions.

It's been more than a few months since I posted this. I was busy writing for work and then the pandemic hit. Sorry this was not a malicious intent at all. I was just looking to do a community blog and was looking to get grant money to pay the writers through an agricultural nonprofit I am with. Unfortunately, it seems that this project has not got much interest on this forum, so I'll continue to keep it local. Thank you for the interested and hopefully in the future we'll be able to expand the nonprofits blog to more writers.

Thank you and Happy Growing.