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$0.80 per word is actually really decent money; I'd expect them to be paying a lot less.
by falcor84 3y ago
$0.80 per word is actually really decent money; I'd expect them to be paying a lot less.
- dylan604 3y agoat first because of the context, I read it as ¢0.80 cents per word, but my brain got all tripped up over the dollar sign. I then started thinking about looking for a way to apply for that job. For $0.80 cents per word, I could wax poetically for pages upon pages of nonsense. I could even make it more beneficial for me by never using more than 2 syllable words. Using 3+ syllable words would start costing me money.
- sfn42 3y agoIts easier if you drop the redundancy. Write $5, not $5 dollars. The dollar sign denotes the unit, there is no reason to add the word after. Alternatively you could just write "5 dollars", there is no need for the dollar sign when you write "dollars" right after. That way you dont have to worry about keeping your redundant units in sync.
- StrictDabbler 3y ago$0.08-$0.12/word is the rate for a quality short story in a moderately respectable science fiction magazine like Clarkesworld or Asimov's Science Fiction. This is also a generally-quoted rate for blogspam. The blogspam rate will crater in response to ML but still I expect the short story to become a dead format. Many good ones will be written but there will be nowhere valuable to share or find them.
- b800h 3y agoThey'll need to create some sort of reputation system to make it work. Alternatively, move back to typewriters and not publishing online. AI reversing the internet again.
- TechBro8615 3y agoYeah, I think I dropped a zero :) For 80 cents a word I might just switch jobs.