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Get near $ 600.00 and I need your social security number and name and address to send you a 1099. |
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NO PLAGIARISM! One copy and paste mistake can happen. I understand. It happened
to me and I was embarassed as all hell when my buyer informed me I had been
Copyscape nabbed, but it was an honest, if neglectful error on my part. We ALL
do it. Copy and paste something for reference and it accidentally creeps into
our copy. Once, maybe. TWICE? And it's goodbye. |
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I will give you titles and wordcount and keywords and phrases and all available
reference material I have. You may have to do research. I pay you more in that
case. |
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PayPal Only. It's free to set up a PayPal account.
< click on the PayPal image to get an account. |
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Never go UNDER word count, and never go over by more than a few words. If the
buyer wants 500 words they have a reason for it, so make it AT LEAST 500 words,
but not much over. If word count is a RANGE? (I hate that)Deliver a word count
within the range. NEVER under and NEVER over. If you don't have a word
processing program like Word? There is a free word count tool on the top of this
page. Use it. |
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Use proper grammar and English. I rarely will ask for UK English. Don't take the
job if you can't do it. |
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Run spell check. If you don't have a spell check word processor? Use the free tool at the top of
the page. No charge. |
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DO ask me for work. It's up to YOU. Click the HandCuffed Monkey up top or this link
or
mailto:HandCuffMonkFish@aol.com?subject=Bill-Got-any-writing-work-for-me-today?&body= |
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This is not glamour writing. You are not getting a byline except in rare cases
in which case good for you. This is "work for hire" and what you write for me
becomes mine and you sell all rights to it and you may not use it again for
anything except as a sample of your writing, but never can you sell it again.
So, don't sell me your autobiography. |
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Writer's guidelines. I will specify on each job how to deliver copy, usually
as .txt or .rtf or .doc files. No paragraph
indents. Leave a blank line between each paragraph. No double spacing. Pay
attention to keywords and instructions I give you. Spellcheck. Grammar check.
There is a free spell check and word counter above. Use them if you don't have
anything but WordPad or NotePad. I like to keep files in .txt format but edit in
Word. |
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Register and then log in and look at the open jobs and apply. The site is new
and growing every day. Welcome. |
FAQs:
Q: Is this legit?
A: Yes. I have contracts with buyers around the world
looking for well written American and UK English copy, which is scarce to
come by in quantity and quality.
Q: If you're paying ME, how do YOU make money?
A: Well, I charge more than I pay you and I earn my money by the
added value of my editing and securing the work for you. My buyers are happy
because they get copy that isn't gibberish and just search engine chow,
plus, it's been edited by two sets of eyes, yours AND mine. Monkey
Chow copy is good writing.
Q:: Do I have to pay taxes on
the money you pay me?
A: Yes, if I pay you $ 600 or more in a year. If that
happens I will need your Social Security Number and send you a 1099 form.
Q What does your email address HandCuffMonkFish mean?
A: Well, it used to be
"HandcuffedMonkey," representing the old idea that 10,000 monkeys chained to
typewriters for an infinite period of time would sooner or later by pure chance
reproduce the works of Shakespeare (
the infinite monkey theorem),
but that AOL account went away long ago and people had gotten to calling me
"Monk" or "Hand" in the
Author's Lounge, so I
kept the "HandCuffMonk" parts and added the "Fish" because I fish a lot and have
written for fishing magazines for twenty years and had two fishing talk radio
shows, so it became "HandCuffMonkFish," which reads well, sounds good,
represents what people call me online but makes little sense upon examination,
much like me. You asked, I answered.