Writing Blog

Do not allow yourself to be taken for a ride by scamsters. They do abound – even on the writing sites. They advertise and ask for bidders to do a test sample. Say they get 25 bids on the project they have posted. Five are rather bad so they are left with 20. They ask each bidder to do two samples, making sure they give all of them different topics. At the end of the day, they’ve gotten away with 40 well written articles while you’re left wondering where on earth the client has disappeared to!

And where is he? Gone to set up his website that deals with the latest ‘hot’ keyword with his spanking new articles. These scamsters rarely do it to the regular writers knowing full well that you can find out where they have been posted up – what they do is pick on the newbies. So if he asks you for a sample, don’t do it. 

Don’t fall for those ‘How to learn to write in a day/week/month’ e-books either. You’re much better off trusting your own instincts – and there are so many free online articles that talk about how to get there – so don’t waste your money.

Pack up all those samples in your virtual sample kit bag and you’re all ready to go. You will need 3 to 5 samples – you do not need to include more – clients usually don’t have time to read. The ideal thing to do would be to write five samples - these could deal with a varied lot of topics – then take each first paragraph or maybe two paragraphs and put them together. What the client would like from your samples is to get a feel of your writing style. If you want to put your samples up online, go to weebly.com or lycos.com and set up a free site for your samples. They have user-friendly tools and you’ll find it’s so easy to set up. Or search the Internet for any other sites that allow you to put a free website up. Then all you have to do is to add a URL to that site so the client can go take a look.