Where Do You Find High Quality Writers?

Why waste your time doing that?

Actually, don't answer, I'm not interested.

You don"t get it.

I ran a ghost writing and article submission company for over a decade.

All "writers" are not cut from the same cloth.

I want the best writer for the particular job, not the writer who is easy to find.



More important than an "original, well-written" document is the storyline of the document. I want my writers to be able to tell a compelling story, even when I am asking them to write in non-fiction. p.s. I only ask my writers to create non-fiction.

I want an article/document that "my readers will be happy to have taken the time to read."

I know Constant Content has "good writers", but I want "great writers".



Not only did I employ writers to offer ghost writing services to the public, but I was also a ghost writer myself.

I got started making money online working as a professional ghost writer. I started writing for $25 per 1000-word article. When I retired as a writer for others, I was charging $150 per 1000-word article and still getting more writing jobs than I wanted to do.

I will always appreciate people who bring the same kind of commitment to writing as I always have.



Absolutely. Good writers don't work for $5 an article. And, great writers are generally worth whatever you are asked to pay them.

Too many people treat writers as if they are a "commodity". SEO writers might be, but great storytellers never are.

All of the people contacting me are perfect strangers. So, your guess is as good as mine to the kinds of people contacting me.

If you are right that the people contacting me to get the names of my writers are exactly as you describe, then I would be passing headaches to my writers -- forcing my writers to waste their limited and valuable time with people who want to waste their time.

If the people who are contacting me are just like I am, then again, I will be giving away "for free" a resource that I paid thousands of dollars to find.

I am hiring individual writers and not companies, so my writers have a limited number of jobs that they can take each month.

To pass on the names of my writers in this case will be extremely risky. If I lose my ability to hire that writer, then I will be forced to spend thousands of dollars again to find a replacement for them.




p.s. John, I did one keyword density job. The guy wanted 15% density on his main keyword, 12% on his secondary keyword, and 8% on his tertiary keyword.

I tried to explain to this idiot that this would mean that every third word would be a target keyword.

So he gave some ground, and said that I should do 12% - 7% - 7%. I wrote two paragraphs to show him what a real idiot he was.

So, he gave some more ground and agreed to 10% - 5% - 5%. LOL He said I would have to make that work, because he would not drop his numbers further.

I gave him two articles that met his final criteria. That idiot demanded a full refund with the assertion that I was the worst writer he had ever worked with in his life!!

That was the first and last time I ever took a "keyword density" writing job.

they might, but usually you don´t find writers over there for long. Most of those who stay are re-writers.

to take 3 or 4 articles and blend them into one is not to write, eventually you can call it to curate content if you want a fancy name for copying.

My humble opinion, of course.

Sandra

Is it me or are there some people in this thread that actually think you'll get the sort of quality Bill is talking about for the price of a beer?

Believe me, your writing isn't bad at all and way above a large proportion of native English speakers.

Don't put yourself down, that's very good for a second language and far better than my Swedish.

Try writing it yourself and hiring a re-writer or editor instead of just outsourcing.

Can someone pass me one of those beers please?

After a brief look at the website in your sig, it shows

I am a non native speaker and I write pretty well. My command of the English language is enough for me to land writing gigs worth well over $5 per article. I know people have a lot of bad experience with non native writers but brother if you are paying some dude $2 per 500 words then you are always taking that risk. When a native speaker can't write well, he can string sentences together, adhere to proper grammar and maintain sentence structure and ultimately produce an article that makes sense- for $5 that is kind of what you are paying for. When a non native speaker who can't write, attempts to write, yeah I know it can be a massacre and will make you want to bang your head on the wall.
Quality writing is not about being a native or non native speaker. it is about having the idea of what quality content is. Having the idea of exactly what kind of research and information a given topic demands and the kind of language you should use to address your audience. It is about understanding the flow of your writing and trying to decide which among the thousands of things that can be said should be said. It is about utilizing all available resources, executing your your writing expertise and ultimately making them work for someone else. It may seem mundane but writers of a certain pay grade invest a lot more than their time in their work. Incorporating other people's passion and interests in words is not something many people can do.......may be that is why young women make such talented writers; they are wonderfully sentimental that way.
Having a college degree or being a native speaker has nothing to do it. Anyone who actually makes an effort to make a living by writing do not deserve to have their worth judged by their ethnic origin.

Once again, I am a non native speaker and I say this on behalf of all writers, native and non-native: If you are looking for someone to work with in the long run, decide on your priorities first. I am not trying to be poetic but every writer should be shown a modicum of respect, not because they are writers but because they are people who are helping you make money

I did not mean to offend anyone and if I did I apologize because that is what all humble writers do.