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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5508488" data-attributes="member: 1">This may be where the disconnect is.  It's not a wage; it's payment for one job. Someone who does it *full time* and actually uses that as his salary is going to develop a - hopefully impressive - resume and reputation comparitively rapidly, and will be charging far more for his services. Someone who writes a 2000 word article once every six months is not. It's kinda self-regulating that way. The people on the low rates are the same people who aren't living on those rates. The people who are making a living doing it (and, to be fair, there aren't many people able to do that - partly because it's a tiny niche industry and the money simply doesn't exist, and partly because that requires a skillset [speed, reliability, dedication, accuracy, availability] that many prospective freelancers simply don't have - they may have one or two of those things, but they need them all). Many writers mistake the primary resource as "being able to write cool stuff"; in fact the primary resource needed to make a living doing this is "being able to produce manuscripts repeatedly to specification and deadline with high reliability".   Most of the publishers can write the cool stuff themselves - that's not the resource they're lacking.  The resource they're lacking is the reliable work ethic and avoidance of high-maintenance artistes. Writers are ten-a-penny; reliable freelancers are a rare, rare breed.</blockquote>

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