I have learned my lesson, and we are all selling ourselves short. We wanted to get our "foot in the door" and agreed to take menial pay. We have justified it over and over by averaging how many words/articles we can type in an hour.
I have learned that most of this has been a distraction from my "passion" for the written word.
Though it is hard to turn away from "low pay" when you need to pay the bills, I would challenge all of us, that even if we continue with low paying and degrading jobs, to at least work on ONE PIECE every week, that is from our hearts, not full of keyword percentages and Google friendly phrases,and be ready to submit them to "higher paying markets" whether that is magazines, newspaper, or a novel that is to be submitted for publication.
My biggest fear for all of us, is that we will become complacent and limit ourselves to writing
SEO content and Forum Blogs for a buck, and deny the truly creative writer that lurks within, who is screaming to be released.
Google adsense has nothing to offer any of us that can ever replace the honest gift of the written word that has been given to each of us.
Not only are we selling ourselves short, for bill money, but we are killing our own creativity.
Pay someone money to "let me write cheap keyword content articles?"
That is the lowest insult that we as writers can inflict upon ourselves!
So,
I challenge you, no matter what you do with writing to pay the bills, to make sure that you work on at least ONE PIECE of quality, heart felt, creative writing so that you do not let the gift you were given dry up and become a dead pile of unused words decaying underneath a heap of Internet "friendly" articles.
Just my 2cents worth,
Charisse