[username223]

> How to make 1k a day? Write 2 technical articles.

The going rate for a technical article written in ~4 hours is $500? That blows my mind. I'm not saying it doesn't happen -- I've only done non-technical articles -- but that it's hard for me to imagine it being profitable for the publication.

800-1000 words produced from scratch in 4 hours, including research, editing, and graphics, is going to be garbage one step above what you'd find in a content farm. The same derived with minor modifications from an existing article will be little better than scraped content.

[ghaff]

As someone who does a fair bit of writing, I'd say a 1,000 word article is more like 1-2 days depending on research (including perhaps attending an event/interviews), administrivia, editing, procrastination, etc.--and can certainly take more than that. Not that I'm generally working freelance, but I'd certainly expect around $1K as the bare minimum. Which, if you do the calculation, probably only translates to about $100K/year best case before expenses, etc.

And, yes, a lot of publications pay less than that which is why you see a lot of writers with technical knowledge working for product companies doing content marketing and related.

[k__]

Yes.

It's also a question of expectations.

I have many clients who publish anything I write without any questions.

[k__]

Clients often approach be because they've read my articles, which means they have a rough feeling about my skillset.

If they offer me to write an article about something I already know, I don't have to do much research.

Writing 1k words takes around 1h if the outline is good, so I have 2-3h hours time to do research about things I already know.