So here I am, still freelancing for Demand Studios, except that lately, I’m finding less articles that I can research and write quickly to justify the pay per article.

I generally try not to work more than three hours when writing two articles. At $15 per article, that works about to about $10 per hour, provided I actually work no more than three hours. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of stuff that prevents me from continually finding a decent queue of articles to write.

Many articles are very specialized, which is fine, except that in order to write a decent article about those topics, I’d have to do a good amount of research. That, in turn, means more time spent constructing the article, prolonging my allocated work time.

Then, when I think I’ve found an article I can research and write quickly, I find that it has been miscategorized or given the wrong article template (How To, Strategy, About, etc.). If I want the article, or was intent on correcting everything, I’d have to report the title to the forums. If you saw the number of titles that I would consider to be in need of recategorizing, you’d understand how much time that would take, not to mention how forum posts there would be.

The last few days I haven’t found much to meet my personal criteria. I have a few articles in my queue that I’m going to complete, but after that it’s a crap shoot.