WritingForDollars.com: A Website Review

As the adage goes, “Writers write.”  There is another one, known as Yog’s Law, which says, “Money flows to the writer.”  The goal for many writers is publication.  Preferably paid publication.

WritingForDollars (www.writingfordollars.com) aims to help with that.  OWFI member Dan Case has maintained WFD since 1997 as a service of AWOC Books, which he owns.  Writers’ Digest has rated Writing For Dollars! as one of the best websites for writers.  A quote from the front page of WFD says, “Writing for Dollars! focuses on the business side of writing (making money).”

In this day of CSS, widgets, and the like, the site is simply put together, which contributes to the user-friendliness of the site.  Other features include a free newsletter and a guidelines database.  An e-book, 83 Ways to Make Money Writing, is free with the newsletter subscription.  Visitors to the site can also get their daily dose of humor with the Chicken Writer comic.

There is a link to AWOC Books’ bookstore where books from several OWFI members, including Charles Sasser, Dusty Richards, Peggy Fielding, Robyn Conley, and more, are available.  Subscription links for Writers’ Digest and The Writer are also listed on the site.

A report from Dead-Links (www.dead-links.com) shows there are several broken links.  However, from looking around the site, those appear to be from within the guidelines database.  Perhaps the publishers/publications changed the URL for the guidelines page, went out of business, or simply removed their guidelines from the web.

Rating:  * * * *

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Facts about WFD

• Writing for Dollars! is a paying market.  Their guidelines can be found at http://www.writingfordollars.com/wfdguidelines.cfm.  

• They buy all of their articles from freelance writers.

• Writers’ Digest lists WFD as one of the best 100 places to get published on the Internet, ranking them seventh on the most recent list.

(Originally published in the OWFI Report. September 2007)

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