Travel Writing

My current assignments in Odesk is writing travel articles. I love traveling and it is now one of my favorite niches. My ultimate dream as a writer is to be a travel writer. What are the perks? Here are some:

Stay in luxurious hotels
Experience events and tours
visit wonderful destinations

All of these are for free!!! Resorts and companies are willing to pay in exchange for a good review. For those interested, this ebook is a great help:

Bonus!

I just received a small amount of bonus from my client. Clients are not greedy to pay extra for a well done work freelance writers do. So, if you are perceiving freelance writing as a career, always deliver a high quality article. The bonus was not that big but it's enough to buy my son a nice birthday cake!

Disappointing writer

I am prompted to write this post when one of my writers gave me a "smart" copied work. He was one of my reliable writers; submitting articles on time and writes quite well. Though I was apprehensive of his latest work that seemed not as good as before but the final straw was when I had to rewrite his three articles instead of editing them. It would have been fine if his work was not nice but he copied his reviews( the assignment) from another website.

Copywriters use Articlechecker or Copyscape to detect plagiarism and if you pass those tools your article is good. However, when I intensively examined his work, it turned out that he paraphrased almost all the sections of the reviews. He had the same sentence order but just fill in some words in between or used a different word. With what he did, I had a bad impression on him already and no one can blame me if I will stop giving him assignments. An excuse of " I was sick when I wrote those.." is no doubt inexcusable.

Let me keep it straight, I am not posting this to humiliate the writer but as a guide to those who want to be a freelance writer. Submitting high quality work will give you an assurance of steady work. My success in this realm within a short period of time is due to my repeat clients. My first client is still my client now though the pay is not that high. With positive feedbacks from freelance sites clients will know your work attitude which is very important.