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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1825
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 03:24 pm: |   |
Do any of you have any knowledge about those write-for-cash sites?
Know anyone who ever wrote and got paid?
IS 5 - 10 BUCKS AN ARTICLE WORTH DOING?
http://www.pacwriter.netfirms.com/ |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
3734
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 06:09 pm: | |
Five to ten bucks per article is not worth doing from my perspective. Yes, I write many things for free, but I don't feel like making something up to sell it for five bucks. Just my opinion.
Laurel Johnson
Author: The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
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Snarzler
Wandering Member
Post Number:
105
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 09:05 am: | |
Not only that, but they take ALL the rights. You can't even resell it elsewhere for more or compile them or nothing. If I'm gonna do all that, I want more than cigarette money. Who do they think I am-HB?
I don't smoke, I sizzle.
A 
Internal Memo: "You'd better learn proper grammar. You'll need it when you apply for parole." |
D.R. Bennett
Wandering Member
Post Number:
194
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 11:16 pm: | |
I was checking out all the sites that promise to pay 5 cents, 10 cents per word, or something small like that. So, for a 10,000 word article, you would get paid something like $500.00?
You would have to write something every day in order for it to actually make you a consistent profit. At least that's how I see it.
If you only wrote a 500 word article and got paid 5 cents for every word,
you would get $25.00......not bad.
Check out a few links at http://www.artistresource.org
good luck!
P.S.-- Snarzler, is that a pic of yourself? Mighty pretty
http://www.drbennett.2ya.com |
Snarzler
Wandering Member
Post Number:
107
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 06:35 am: | |
*scuffs foot* Aw thanks.
I had to have shots for PA. It was a recreation of one of my favorite actress' photos. Can you tell just how much I love having my picture taken? 
A
Internal Memo: "You'd better learn proper grammar. You'll need it when you apply for parole." |
Frederick A. Babb
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
322
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 08:53 am: | |
If I'm gonna do all that, I want more than cigarette money. Who do they think I am-HB?
Andrea, you kill me....
Fred
Preview books: http://www.frederickbabb.bravehost.com |
Snarzler
Wandering Member
Post Number:
110
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 03:24 am: | |
Killing me softly with big words, killing me slowly with no sense, killing me wholely...
Oh wait, this isn't a PA thread. :D
A
Internal Memo: "You'd better learn proper grammar. You'll need it when you apply for parole." |
Frederick A. Babb
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
323
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 07:17 am: | |
Oh, I would never so much as harm the lady with such lovely feet. Nor insult the idea of this being reduced to a PA thread....
Preview books: http://www.frederickbabb.bravehost.com |
Tom Elkins
Awareness Member
Post Number:
21
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 07:54 am: | |
Speaking of cash, I just received my royalty check from PA. Four books, $3.84. I'd be a lot better off writing for 5-cents a word. Or even 5-sents a sentence.
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Frederick A. Babb
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
324
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 08:40 am: | |
Tom
You obviously didn't hawk the book to enough family and friends. The PA management team will not be pleased.
Is that the PA dream bubble I just heard popping.
Now, Tom, start concentrating on your writing career and learn from your past.
Best of luck!
Preview books: http://www.frederickbabb.bravehost.com |
Tom Elkins
Awareness Member
Post Number:
22
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 02:27 pm: | |
Frederick -
Please don't lecture me. I'm 73 years old and for 40 years made a pretty decent living writing. Won some national awards and did commentary on Voice of America for awhile. Publishers weren't exactly lined up at the door for NOT, so I took a flyer. I also shoot craps once in awhile.
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Frederick A. Babb
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
325
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 12:12 am: | |
OH, to the contrary, I wasn't lecturing, only commenting that you need to live and learn. A bad decision was made with PA, but does that mean the publishing world is bad? I think not.
Wow, try to give a man a pep talk and get shot... I think I will stick to Andrea's feet.
Preview books: http://www.frederickbabb.bravehost.com |
Tom Elkins
Awareness Member
Post Number:
24
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 07:27 am: | |
Good idea...but I'm more intrigued with some other parts of her anatomy. Don't jump to conclusions...I could mean her hands or her elbows. Or, God forbid, her ears and the back of her neck.
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
D.R. Bennett
Wandering Member
Post Number:
198
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 03:01 pm: | |
Okay guys, let's let Andrea breath and take this all in.
http://www.drbennett.2ya.com |
Snarzler
Wandering Member
Post Number:
115
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 03:28 pm: | |
New PA Slogan:
Willing to Write for Cigarette Money?
Frederick
I disavow any truth to those rumours my feet are the ones stomping the cranberries in the circulating video.
Tom
I think Frederick was trying to be tongue-in-check. Or cheek. Maybe bad funny?
Keep writing. There are good places to submit to.
And as for my neck, my cat likes licking the back of my ears, so you'll have to share.
DR
I'm beginning to think my avatar is distracting.
Internal Memo: "You'd better learn proper grammar. You'll need it when you apply for parole." |
D.R. Bennett
Wandering Member
Post Number:
200
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 05:00 pm: | |
Distracting or not...I like it. Dig the glasses too.
~ D.R. Bennett - The "Mystic" Writer |
Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
888
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 04:23 am: | |
With the price of cigarettes nearing $5 a pack in California, I would be happy to write for cigarette money. Tobacco, however, is tantamount to carnal sin in this state and I haven't lit my pipe since July. Every time I go for an operation, the nurse asks me, "Do you still smoke?" She says it as if she wishes I would burn in hell.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1849
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 06:44 am: | |
Fred, you are not alone. I feel your pain.
Geez, now you can't smoke at a little league baseball game in North Carolina.
No pipes, no cigars and no filthy disgusting cigarettes.
What they going to think when folks start spitting chewing tobacco and snuff in restaurants?
BTW - people with their fancy coffee additions are starting to get on my nerves.
Don't we get a little pissed at those folks telling us how to live? What we what we can't say, what we can't see, and next is what we can't think.
Drink your lattes, cremes and whatever just don't tell me I can't wear my coonskin hat, smoke a cuban cigar, or enjoy a shot of rye while sitting in my underware in my den while watching Rambo kick North Vietnamese ass. As Howard Dean says "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeahhhhhhhhzzzzzz."
http://www.pacwriter.netfirms.com/ |
F.E. Mazur
Awareness Member
Post Number:
23
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 07:21 am: | |
My brother and his friends attend the football games at their local high school. They also like to enjoy a cigar in the cool open air of the night. But a few years back, this was outlawed. But brother likes to point out that the ambulance on hand sitting just off the field is often kept running for the length of the game. |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
3754
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 12:24 pm: | |
A few days back I was gonna ask you, Snarzler, if that was an old Grace Kelly pic you resurrected. so it's you, posing as Grace Kelly? Cool!!!
It gets on MY nerves that people can't smoke a ciggy anyplace without bringing the wrath of God down upon them.....but drunken oafs can cuss, stumble, stagger and letch around and no one seems to mind that.
It's all smoke and mirrors. Maybe Jenn and Sheila have had different experiences, but in my years of hospital work I saw ten times more people die of alcoholism than smoking.
In my next rant, I will address the potential government banning of eating TWINKIES in public. 
Laurel Johnson
Author: The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1854
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 01:38 pm: | |
Eat your twinkie, just don't do it around a person with an addiction to food. And don't throw the wrapper on the ground -- oh, wait - the wrapper is made of plastic, more oil consumption. And, you are contributing to the landfill crisis. Those twinkie wrappers add up, so more methane gas is produced which damages the ozone layer -- ah ha -- greenhouse effect, global warming. DON'T EAT THE TWINKIE YOU ARE KILLING ME! think of my grandchildren!
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Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2277
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 02:09 pm: | |
Deep fried twinkies....mmmmmmm...
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Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
891
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 08:03 pm: | |
Pacwriter,
Three weeks ago, I was lying in bed in my room in the VA Hospital when an old Rambo movie came on the TV. It wasn't long before we had a crowd in there, applauding and shouting. The nurses kept telling us to keep it down, but it did no good. There's no vet like an old vet. Ho Chi Minh can still stick it in his ear as far as I'm concerned. Same goes for the Commies who took over after him. If I had my way, the US wouldn't have any relations with Vietnam.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Snarzler
Wandering Member
Post Number:
117
Registered: 07-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 03:19 am: | |
Laurel
That is EXACTLY who I modeled it after! Its such an obscure pic I could almost use the original without getting caught, but my ruddy hair and actually need for big thick glasses is a giveaway when compared side-by-side.
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Pacwriter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1857
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 06:00 am: | |
I have a friend who survived the Batan death march back in WW2 - he still hates the Japanese and can't understand how we can be "friends" with them. He checks labels on everything he buys and will not buy anything labeled "made in Japan".
For years I checked labels but had to quit because "made in Japan" seemed to be on half the stuff I bought. I stopped checking the labels because I don't want to knowingly support the japanese.
There is no way on God's green Earth I'm going to vacation in Viet Nam. I'm still pissed at the South viets for not fighting for their country and more pissed at North Viet for the treatment of our POWs. And that brings me to the Russians who supported the North Viets, I felt really good when the USSR fell apart. And the French, ...
I guess you can say I have a bit of bitterness for the inhumane treatment of American service people. Oh, and those so-called war-lords of Somalia need a good dose of napalm up their butts.
Am I bitter - yeah! So folks take your best shots, I'm getting used to it. It really bothers me that throughout history our young people have fought and died for others who did not appreciate their sacrifice. Bitch about the country's leadership and the reasons those young people died but don't forget the treatment those young people received for doing their duty. The soldier never seeks to fight, he is ordered to do so.
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
3758
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 06:34 am: | |
As far back as Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, men in politics looked kindly on an isolationist policy because of what they saw in other parts of the world. I read an article once explaining FDR's thinking on remaining neutral and somewhat isolated from the world. He did not agree that exchanging goods with other countries would be good for the US. And he did not agree that the US had an obligation to rescue every country in the world.
His fears have come home to roost. He believed that over time opening up world markets would hurt, not help Americans -- that WE would be doing the buying and they would be playing hard ball with the goods we had to sell. He also believed that the countries "rescued" would have short memories and be less than appreciative of our efforts.
Still, Pearl Harbor forced him to change that outlook. It was our last "good war", if there is such a thing. And now look what is happening to American jobs and industry. Those "exchanges" FDR worried about have come true in spades.
Laurel Johnson
Author: The Grass Dance
The Alley of Wishes
Color of Laughter, Color of Tears
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Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
897
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 03:08 pm: | |
On September 11, 2001, isolationism came to an abrupt halt. Our troops are spread thin and we desperately need a larger Army. This has priority over tax cuts and other domestic issues. Boots on the ground are the only way to take and hold hostile territory. Better over there than here.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Olen Armstrong
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
307
Registered: 06-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 09:30 am: | |
You GO, Fred.
I keep saying: better to fight the bad-guys in Baghdad, Iraq than in Bagdad, Ky.
Later,
Olen A |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1974
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 10:26 am: | |
exactly, let's keep the home shores safe, by taking the fight to where they are rather than them bringing it here. I had that very conversation with my brother when we were 17 (he) and 19 (me) years old, during the start-up of VietNam.
I told him that it would be much better to fight in Saigon or TonSanNut than in San Francisco bay......... course I am a warrior in that respect. I did try to join the service when I was 19, but they turned me down. He got married and went Conscientious Objector by becoming a Pastor.
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Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
905
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 12:53 pm: | |
Considering what your brother has accomplished with his ministry, he took the right route. There are some genuine conscientious objectors (though they be few and far between) - a fact of which I am well aware after 22 years with the Selective Service System, Local Board #169.
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