More About On-line Publishing

hen it is creative writing, a story or poem, something you created from imagination,
whatever recompense you get from publishing online is gravy.

At the very least you’ve gotten free
storage, very important in case of
a computer crash or disaster, and
secondly, people will see your work.  

When you’ve authored a serious piece,
which requires research, you begin out
of pocket.

If you had a job doing this kind of research
you’d be well paid.  As you’re doing it free
you are really being ripped off.

There is no other way to say it.

If you were writing for a local in-house hard copy magazine or newspaper,
you’d get free coffee, maybe pastries, maybe gas money,  free Internet.

When you write for any of the online publishing sites,  even where you
have  a morgue of zombies clicking on your work, the 1c for six views
means you’d need 60k to make $100. 

What do you do?
Recyle.

By recycling you get a few more pennies here and there without doing more work.

Use different names, different email addresses. This is vital.

Most sites demand unpublished work,
yes a few don’t.  but most do.

Begin with a site that demands unpublished work.  Don’t kill yourself with research,
do as little as possible to get by, publish it, then squeeze every possible hit out of it.

As soon as it starts to fade,  republish it, on another site that demands unpublished
work.  Use a different title, alter your paragraphs, add a bit of information you left
out of the first.

Go through the same rigamarole of marketing.  Same social networks again and you
want to leave some time between the promoting of what is virtually the same thing.

After you’ve gotten all you can, do it again. Another site that demands unpublished
work, different title, reworked paragraphs, a new bit of information.

On some sites you’ll add photos and maps.  You may make it a bit more academic.

An article you published six months ago, can be plucked from a site, rewritten
and republished someplace else as new.

With facts that can’t change, your standpoint can. There was an Earthquake in Haiti on the 12th of January 2010.  You may have done a fairly quick piece and posted it here, but now, as more facts emerge, you can
create a much more academic article and post it elsewhere.

All online sites have drawbacks.

One pays very little, and has an automated system, so that quality is not important.
This means that badly written or ridiculous articles get through, get hits, and bring
down the standard of the site.

Another pays a fraction more, but one has to work harder as it doesn’t get as many
hits, even though one has done the same social networking thing.

One site puts new things on the Front Page, so you get a rush of early hits, then
it fades into oblivion. Hence, your marketting comes 48 hours after publishing.

As an example, If you were writing an article on autism, you might begin on Triond with: What is Autism?  
and go into a simple explanation, give examples, avoiding medical terminology, quotes, facts, because the automated checking program will decline an article which is substantiated.  

I know this sounds ridiculous, as you would think providing quotes or official terminology
would make your article more compelling.   With automated systems, which scour
cyberspace the word for word quote will show up as a copy of another article.  
The wise move is to adopt a chatty less academic style. 

On Bukisa you might call the article;   Autism explained, and open with an example,
then give definitions, shuffling paragraphs around.

You would continue this process on every other writing site, changing titles, juggling
paragraphs, adding quotes you left out when you posted it here, facts which would
only get you bounced.

You would begin to promote your work on Triond the moment the item is published,
expecting to pick up a few hits from friends, networking it to pick up  a few stumbles 
here and there.  

A few weeks later, you’d post on Bukisa, going through the same networking as soon
as it is officially on the site.

A week after posting on Bukisa, you would review the article, making it that much more
academic, and post it on another site.

A factual article means that you are writing about something which exists; whether
history or explanation of a concrete entity.  There are just so many ways to write
Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492.  

Not that this method will make you rich, but will provide a few more pennies in
your coffers without doing much more work.