freelance writing gig (sort of)

Well, sort of.

You all may notice all the weird articles I'm always talking about writing. I do these for Associated Content, which is a website that calls itself "The People's Media." Anyone can submit an article on any topic and, if you have a basic command of English (as most of you do) get paid for it. I started writing for them by banging out articles on New York, on acting and on celiac disease. Most of these paid me about $5 up front and then earned me pageview bonuses.

However, because they discovered I could write well, they started assigning me articles for specific websites. So I write a blog for a major retailer and lots of articles for a disability website. I've also started doing some articles on aging, some specifically requested tourism articles and, most recently, a voiceover script for a local TV commercial These things usually pay about $10 - $25 each (closer to $25 in my experience) and I can usually knock them out in about 20 minutes.

For me, Associated Content can earn me several hundred dollars a week. And it's pretty much instant money as articles are approved within 2 weeks (sometimes the same day) and pay via paypal comes 3 times a week.

They've instituted a referral program for their top content producers, which means that if you join up and write 5 articles for them by the end of September I get $10. You'll get paid for your articles and also get a $10 bonus.

So, if you need some extra cash, consider signing up and writing at http://www.associatedcontent.com/join.html?refer=9740

sundries

- Patty is off to Ohio and is buying our Atlanta tickets tonight.

- I am very excited about taking an airplane flight with Patty. I have not held someone's hand when the plane took off in almost 15 years. I do _hate_ commercial flying though, and turbulence makes me sit there in white-knuckled annoyance/fear chanting the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear. I am not even joking. It's so undignified. And hilarious, in current contexts. I faintly remember, all half asleep, her telling me she'd make sure I wasn't scared on the plane. Which leads into the item below with a certian level of hilarity it's almost difficult to describe.

- I am slowly retreating from my "I am not cosplaying" stance about Dragon*Con, although I am now leaning towards a steampunk outfit based around the Bedoin coat Patty brought me from Syria. Of course, people I know in TW fandom are going and various people need a Jack for various cosplay things and I MUST RESIST. Hopefully, I'll be less itchy about it, since I'll have had time to play at Terminus and at the upcoming DoV stuff. I think a lot of it is that after having excuses to costume twice a week for a month, I feel out of sorts in the mundane clothes of modern summer, and there is, really, something oddly nice about the press of braces on one's shoulders. Really. Wait what was this about again? Oh yeah, I am not cosplaying at Dragon*Con. Crap.

- The Fantasticks is a much different show when you are 35 than when you are 8. Still charming. And wow, that fellow they have playing The Wall right now? Cute cute cute cute cute. Dark hair, bright wide eyes and a smirk. You see where this is going. I never remember The Wall smirking in its efficiency before.

- A Friday of 800 tasks.

- Time to write the Terminus papers! (Or at least produce copious notecards! All of which I'll probably memorize anyway just by accident. You all have never seen me give a paper. I'm kinda motherrfucking awesome.

hotlanta

So, what's to do in Atlanta other than Dragon*Con (and Waffle House)?

Also, who's going?

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I AM A POLITICAL ANALYSIS GOD.

Hi, sorry. Just my ability to make shiny out of crap is astounding.

Unrelatedly:

Can I write anything without finding a way to make it completely fucking heartbreaking? Because I think the answer is no.

sundries, part deux

- It's nice to be home while it's still light out.

- I normally don't write out of order in things I'm working on, but I just did and made myself cry. Which is actually AWESOME except for the part that I want to take a walk now, because that's how I cure that being other people shit, but it's really hot outside, and I don't wanna. So it's going to have to wait.

- I would actually like to get a lot of writing done tonight or actually pretty much every genre I engage in, but I think I probably need food first and to stop listening to this goddamn song on repeat.

- Patty in Ohio. *pout* But at least we can communicate now!