I’ve written here before about how much I like book art - books turned into something amazingly creative that becomes art. I think there’s always a double meaning when books (which symbolize knowledge, learning, education, self-expression and so much more) are used to create art. So what about when they’re used to create architecture?
Inhabitat has a cool post about a small octagonal building that is made entirely of books. The create it, the artist made an octagonal frame, filled it with stacks of books and removed the frame. What’s left is a building that you can enter even though it’s just made from books.
The pictures of it are cool; readers will like them so go ahead and check them out over at the original post.
I write for a variety of different clients including many that I do ghost writing for. However, there are a few particular websites that I write for regularly under my own name. These are sites that I’ve been a writer on at least a few months. Some of them I’ve written on for years. I clearly have a commitment to them and hope to keep writing for them for a long time.
I write for these sites because they are great sites and I love to be a part of what they’re doing. Some of the best of those sites are:
- HubPages. I love writing different articles for HubPages. I can create whatever content interests me and publish it through the site. Lots of other people are writing great stuff here as well.
- DialAPhone. I am lucky to have the opportunity to write regularly about mobile phone news and information for this site. The other writers on the team are really great and I always read their stuff too!
- The Money Saving Blog. I’m the main blogger on this site which allows me to research and write about the important topic of saving money and living frugally.
- Houzz. This is an interior design site that I write for a couple of times per week. It’s the only site that I get to write photo-rich text for on a regular basis.
- Real Deal Technologies Blog. I love writing about business topics and I get to do that here.
These are just my favorite spots to write for regularly. I’m so lucky to have the chance to do these jobs steadily!
Blog Jobs:
- Corporate media blogger, 2-3 500-800 word posts weekly @ $20 per post
- Personal finance and mortgage blogger, rate not stated
Ongoing writing jobs:
- Magazine writing, $30 per page
- Underwriter/copywriter, full time, rate not stated
- Dog magazine, $0.03-$0.20 per word
- Product reviews, rate not stated
- Business writer, $750-$1000 per week
- Colorado real estate writers, 4 3-5 page articles monthly, state your rate
- Travel writing, 20-50 500 word articles per week @ $7 per article
- Various projects, $3-$50 per 500-word article
One-shot writing jobs:
- 2 pg music article, rate not stated
- 12 3-pg How-To guides, rate not stated
- Interior design website content, state your rate
- Nigerian magazine, rate not stated
- Children’s script writer, rate not stated
- 13-pg legal memo, $200
Seeking submissions:
- Contributions to book about all kinds of strange stuff
- Greeting cards, pays by royalties
Editing jobs:
- 25-pg academic paper, must be edited this weekend, rate DOE
Misc:
- Spanish translation work, periodic ongoing
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I just finished writing an article for my Hub Pages site about Christmas gifts for writers and bloggers. I wanted to share it with others and that reminded me that I promised an early December blog post about the work that I did in November. That’s because there were a bunch of articles that I did on my Hub Pages site that I’d wanted to share with you. For those of you who don’t know, Hub Pages is a place where bloggers can provide information on a range of different topics. I pride myself on running the gamut of my range which allows me to stretch my research skills and improve my writing.
Here are some of the Hub Pages articles that I did during the last few weeks:
- Decorating your Dorm Room with Personal Style
- Helping a Loved One End a Bad Relationship
- How to Make a Home Fire Escape Plan
- How to Naturally Induce Labor
- How to Deep Fry a Turkey
- Getting Custody of your Kids after a Divorce
- How to Make a Candle out of Crayons
- How to Refinance your Home
- Learning how to Juggle
- How to Present Your Business to an Interested Client
- How to Build a Tree House
- Shopping Advice: Men Buying for Women
- Ten Tips for Increasing your Happiness
- Learn Cartooning from Online Lessons
In addition to my work at Hub Pages, here are a few of the other jobs that kept me busy throughout November:
- During the week, I could be found researching and writing all that there is to know about voice communications technology for PC World. One of my favorite areas of research was watching the news that Jajah was releasing about its business and assessing what was really behind the hype. Other reports included
- My weekends and Thanksgiving holiday were filled with reporting on broadband and technology news for my regular job at Broadband Reports.
- I maintained my daily blog posts for my regular blog sites which included researching and providing information on tattoo removal, infertility, vein disease treatment advances and anti-aging options. I also maintained by daily blog posts for Reverse Mortgage information and online dating. See the blogs page on my website for links to those blogs.
- I am hard at work on my third book, a guide to inexpensive alternative home building. That kept most of my November quite busy.
December is going to be a quiet month in some ways. I’m taking a vacation which I’m excited about and cutting back a few jobs that don’t have a lot going for them in this last month of the year. However, I’m still going to be doing all of the regular work that I’ve been doing and will update you accordingly.
As we come into the new year, you’ll see more regular posts from me here. You’ll get near-daily updates about where you can find my work online in addition to information about my upcoming projects and general thoughts about the business of writing.
