Postcards from the Funny Farm

Since I applied to PayPerPost I have become a better copy/ad writer. It has challenged me since every post is a new opportunity to use rhetoric, wit, and candor to sell a product. I like PayPerPost because I get to select the ad campaign to write for. This is helpful because not every ad is something I know about or am interested in. I also like how it empowers me, the writer, to earn money by simply following the terms of the offer. These terms are very clearly laid out and there isn’t any guesswork.

As I draft, revise and finally post, I learn about writing. I have to envision a given audience and then craft my words around that image. If you think about it, that is really all a writing class does for you. I ought to know, I have my MA in English and sat through many of them. I guess the differences between taking an ad writing class and writing for PayPerPost are that 1) You don’t have a professor grading your work and 2) you get paid. So, if you’re wanting to become a better writer at home without a professor and you want to get paid for it … PayPerPost’s the thing.

I just installed their toolbar on my Firefox browser. This thing makes PayPerPost even easier to use. As you surf the net, it indicates if a page has an opportunity to write for them. It also displays the day’s “Random 10″ PayPerPost writers so you can get to know other folks like yourself blogging and getting better at PayPerPost. In today’s blogosphere, networking is crucial to PageRank and traffic. This new toolbar, along with well-written posts, can help raise both.

To anyone who has a blog they write in frequently, I highly recommend PayPerPost as a way to get better at writing to a topic and get paid to blog!