Today I signed up for one of the "freelance writing" sites called suite101. Or at least I attempted to sign up for it. Sometimes they have you fill out a sample article with your submitting just to imply or otherwise induce a higher caliber of applicant. Or, at least the that is what I would guess from the other site I signed up for that required and a sample and accepted me. That was about the same quality as what I sent to suite101 but suite101 rejected me. So either the other site has much lower standards, suite101 has much higher standards or maybe my samples just didn't fit-the-bill as they say. I think I'm going to practice some more, try and "find my voice" and then try again. The good news though, suite101 rejected me less than an hour after I applied. Maybe it's just an auto-mated program that scans for first-person (bad), spelling errors (bad) and "SEO" (more the better). That's probably it.

I had signed up for LifeTips a couple days ago, another freelance writing site. When I submitted the application (with writing sample) it had said it could take up to two weeks to get the results. So expected to be waiting a long, long time. Instead I got the result today. Well I signed it and read some information and watched a pre-recorded "webinar" from last July but I still have no idea how to actually contribute content, create tips or anything else. I don't know if something still has to be done on the back end or if there's a glitch in the web site. In any case it seems rather confusing to get an "accepted" email and then have no way of actually creating content in any way or even some way of telling if there's something left to do and I should wait or what. LifeTips, actually, has this side thing where you take your tips and apply it to a publish-on-demand book publishing dealy. Although the webinar (from last July) said they were going to start charging for that and yet the front page of the site still says "free book publishing". Ok, whatever. Either way it would be fun to have my name in print even if that print wasn't especially obvious or prevelent or likley to earn me any money.

I also signed up for Associated Content. They don't have any kind of assessment of skills what-so-ever. You just sign up for an account and start writing. It's some kind of payment-per-1000 page views or whatever. The more you put into getting visitors and whatever to visit it the better off you'll be. And I think SEO has something to do with it.

I have created a "web jobs" folder in my dropbox containing a sub folder for each of these web sites. I haven't really started on any of them of course. But they're there. I mean I signed up and put a URL shortcut to each and in the respective folder but I haven't really contributed actual content.

So there's associated content, bukisa (not sure on that one), eHow, howtodothings, hubpages, lifetips, squido and suite101. Squido and hubpages seem like different versions of the same site. But HubPages has a much better look to it I think.

Next morning...

I wrote this last night. Actually I think it was longer but blogger decided to not work no more. Every screen I went to had some error message. Good thing blogger periodically backs up what you write.  ¶ 9:59 PM