Work for Us

Are you an experienced freelance writer or editor looking to supplement your income? We may have work for you.

At this time (August, 2019) we are looking for:

WRITERS. We review all inquiries, but at this time we have a special need for writers with some familiarity (the deeper the better) with law (especially personal injury) and managed service providers (cloud computing, with special emphasis on security issues).

Our need for new writers is unpredictable, but the things we need from them are always the same:

• High-level writing ability and solid self-editing. While we edit each submission thoroughly before passing it on to the client, we really don’t like having to re-write heavily. Or correct spelling, noun-verb agreement, punctuation, and the like. If you’re great at early drafts but not so much at polishing your work, we might not be a good fit.
• An ability to follow directions. We usually expect (and encourage) a certain amount of creative flair in our writers. However, most WordWorks clients need posts that follow a particular form or meet specific content requirements. Much of our work is template-based (although loosely, with a large degree of flexibility). If you can’t color inside the lines, this might not be the gig for you.
• Top-notch online research skills. Our clients require that posts link to recognizable and reliable authorities on many topics. We’ll help you get started by providing some specific references and some general types of reference to seek out. But you’ll need to be able to find new and appropriate references all the time. In almost all cases, the links you’ll research must be publicly available, and will not need a paid subscription.
• The ability to meet deadlines. Most WordWorks customers expect their content on a particular schedule: whether it’s one post every Monday, two posts on second Thursdays, or some other pattern, a deadline needs to be met. Clients also occasionally have a need for rush orders—sometimes with as little as 48 or even 24 hours notice. If you treat schedules and deadlines as suggestions, we might not have a good relationship.

We expect prospective freelancers to provide a sample or two of relevant work for review. If your work seems like a good fit, and we have space for you, we’ll ask you to produce one or two tryout posts based on our guidelines: this will be for an actual client job (which we will compensate you for). If we like what we see, you’ll be added to our list.

We don’t always have work available for every writer on our list, so don’t expect instant gratification. When we need you, we’ll let you know. Your first (non-tryout) job might arrive on short notice, with the expectation that you turn it around in only a few days.

We produce only unique, high-quality, well-researched content tailored to each client. Copy and paste is unacceptable! Extensive or frequent quotation is also frowned upon. Other requirements relating to how posts should be structured, target reading level, how links should be used, and so on are described in our guidelines or are specific to each client.

When possible, our writers are assigned to specific clients to allow them to build confidence and expertise in the specifics, such as the type of law practiced, the geographic location covered by that client, and so on. It’s good news if we match you with a client: you might be able to keep going as long as we (and the client) are happy with your work.

In the “caveats” department: in addition to the things mentioned above (quality writing, following guidelines, meeting deadlines), we reserve the right to trim your pay if significant rewriting is needed, or to reject a post outright. Should that happen, you will probably not get paid for that post, unless there’s a way to re-purpose it. We expect you to agree to a limited non-compete agreement (simply that you won’t try to work independently for any of our clients), as well as a focused non-disclosure agreement (relating only to proprietary information from WordWorks and our clients).

We think of the content we create as “journalistic” but not journalism. Posts require that you do research, sometimes extensive, into the broad topic as well as the specific subject of each post, but you can do this from the comfort of your browser. If a client requires it, you’ll be expected to learn about their past cases, their region, and members of their firm, and then use that knowledge in your posts for them.

The amount of time and effort you put into a post can be extremely variable. The research and writing of most posts should average 2-3 hours, and sometimes you might knock out a simple post in less than an hour; however, a complex post on a difficult topic with few available references might take you several days to get right. Sadly, because of how we structure our contracts with clients, you’ll be paid the same for each post (with very few exceptions). Pay is handled on a per-post basis only. We do our best to never pay writers less than $50 per post.

Still interested? Great! Fill out the short form below to get started. We’ll be in touch soon.