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The need for speed [in freelance writing]

October 23, 2015 by Jake Poinier

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freelance writing speedDr. Freelance: I’ve been offered $0.10 a word, for a total of $9350, between now and December 30 to provide writing content for five different websites. No two sentences can be the same. I’m trying to decide if this is physically possible.—Karin

I’ll be honest: When I first read this, I was thinking you’d been offered a freelance writing job for 9,350 words, which is physically possible. But after our follow-up conversation, I understand that the project is actually a headier 93,500 words. I wrote a bit about writing speed in “How much time will it take to write the copy?” a while back, but let’s break your particular situation into its component parts—because it’s not just about the need for speed. It’s about math. [Read more…]

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October 4, 2011 by Jake Poinier

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Been too long since I did a video—and I felt like dressing up in my scrubs—so here are some quick followup thoughts to last week’s post on “How much time will it take to write copy?”. Let’s talk about freelance writing speed.

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