Archive for the 'General' Category

How to Detect Bad (Inaccurate) Sources

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Research is a necessity in every writer’s life. This is especially true for “career writers,” or those who rely on writing for a living. The daily deliverables of these career writers can be too much that, sometimes, research is done carelessly. This is actually a mistake that can be prevented by just applying some discernment [...]

How to Avoid Errors When Processing Client’s Instructions

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

When you work from home, project instructions are most often sent via electronic form. This can be done through email, or, in a few cases, via chat. Whatever the case, things can get lost in translation. Miscommunication can happen. Personal directives or even on-hand demos of project expectations are always better than just reading off [...]

How to Increase Quality in Writing Jobs

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Writing quality is a tricky topic. Just how does one define writing quality? With the many styles of writing out there – and a writer may use one or more of these styles, depending on the writing gig – it is hard to pinpoint a set criteria of what qualifies as “quality” writing. For the [...]

How to Increase Research Speed for Writing Jobs

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Writers often need to research their materials first before they start putting words on paper. This can sometimes be a tedious process, especially with the deluge of search results online. While some of these results can be really helpful, most are search engine-optimized pages that hardly have any useful content. Just how can one hasten [...]

How to Overcome Writers’ Block

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Writers’ block is a common affliction amongst wordsmiths. Even the best of them suffer from it every now and then. Writers’ block can last a couple of minutes, an hour, days, weeks, and even years. Some well-known writers have even blamed it for years of zero commendable output. It is no wonder that career writers [...]

Welcome to a different kind of online writing job site

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Welcome to Writing Jobs Philippines–a different kind of online writing job and project site.
This blog lists writing projects from mostly foreign companies looking for affordable content creation, rewrite, research projects.
While we try to vet each and every entry that makes it to this blog, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information of the job [...]