Rejection is just a fact of life for any writer, get over it. For the last few months I have been testing out a number of writer for hire options to see how they pan out. I have to say right off, its not my favourite way of making money. A lot of the work is pure churn, very boring and extremely poor pay. Not being a fast writer, and preferring to spend a long time on research pulls the pay rate way down, making me a kind of new age digital peasant.

Sometimes, in the world of fast content creation, mistakes happen, typos slip thru and punctuation suffers.  One of the places I have had a lot of success has been at Constant Content which has a pretty tough editorial team. While being rejected for a missing apostrophe can be frustrating, overall if you can get accepted by offering high quality articles to buyers you can make some really good money by picking and choosing the assignments you will work on.

I still think those damned apostrophes are more akin to witchcraft than proper English. Who, apart from a dedicated Grammarian could keep all those rules straight? Take a look at this little gem:

Each of these four phrases (listed in Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct) has a distinct meaning:

• My sister’s friend’s investments (the investments belonging to a friend of my sister)
• My sister’s friends’ investments (the investments belonging to several friends of my sister)
• My sisters’ friend’s investments (the investments belonging to a friend of several of my sisters)
• My sisters’ friends’ investments (the investments belonging to several friends of several of my sisters)

I’m with George Orwell, get rid of the annoying little buggers.