The New Site on the Block: Seed.com, What's it About?

Some of the top gossip in the freelance writing world right now is about AOL's decision to launch a new content site. Seed.com is now up and running, but is it worth it to freelancers and can it stay competitive to some of our better paying sites?

The first thing that struck me as strange was the fact that I could sign up for an account without submitting any type of samples. Therefore, like many residual-income sites, anyone can join. Once you sign in, you will notice a wide variety of topics to choose from that quote a price of $25-$30 for araound 500 words. However, there is a catch. You can submit your article for approval, but so can countless others. Then the editor will choose which articles will be purchased. That's not really an idea I'm thrilled with if I'm going to spend time researching and writing an article, but I figured that if my article wasn't accepted I could always post it elsewhere to help generate passive income. Then I read a little further, the site states that the editor will choose which articles to buy. This can be one article or many; therefore if the payment is set for $30 and the editor chooses 6 articles, each person would recieve $5. This is the part of the site that I'm not okay with. I am willing to put my work up againast others, but I don't want to be forced to give the rights away to something I have worked hard on for hardly any money.

I did go through and claim a couple of topics. I have decided to put this stie to the test. (of course I'll keep a running tab on here for you all as well) Hopefully, AOL will eventually be able to compete with some of our more lucrative sites, but we will definitly have to wait and see.

Has anyone had an experience at Seed.com? If show share your experience and post a comment!

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New Years Resolutions

I have been planning for my New Year's Resolutions in both my personal and professional life. One thing for certain is that I normally set much goals too high and then get extremely stressed out when I am unable to meet them. Number one on my list is making and sticking to a set schedule.

I know I have talked about schedules time and time again, but I have still yet to stick to one myself. I came across something called Focus Booster recently thought and it has been helping me stay focused so I'm hoping that the schedule thing will work n the coming year. Needless to say here is a rough draft of my New Year's Resolutions:

1. Make a schedule and stick to it
2. Monetary goal: Start at $700 per week and work up to $1200 per week
3. Hit the gym three times per week
4. Go back on the South Beach diet and stick to it (I never seem to get past the no drinking at all for two weeks part)
5. Stop smoking (Making a dr. appt for this first thing next year!)

So, there's the start to mine, now let's here from you! What's your New Year's Resolution and how does it effect your writing?

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Long Time, No Post!

Okay, I know I haven't posted here in about a million years, but I have decided to resume blogging. Here's the thing, when you have a writing blog, it becomes tiring to post time after time about freelance writing. Honestly, I started to feel like other people's blog had information for writers that seemed to be a lot mor informative than I could ever post on here.

However, I really miss blogging. Blogging is kind of like therapy for people who have to sit at a computer all day long and type article after article. Therapy that I was missing out on. Besides, the fact is when it comes to my small world of writing friends, I tend to earn more than they do, so why not share my knowledge? There are many different types of writers out there and hopefully I can help a few.

Needless to say, I am back to posting here regularly, so if there are any topics that you would like to see covered shoot me an email!

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