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Helium.com is a website where writing of all types and genres is welcome! From poetry to short stories, from research reports to how-to articles, and from book reviews to memoirs, at Helium you'll find an eager audience for your work!
Helium is free to join and, while they offer no up-front payment for your work, they do have a revenue sharing system in place whereby they give a portion of their profits gleaned through advertising to their writers. This, of course, doesn't add up to very much, but if you post a large amount of popular work to their site, it can build steadily over time. (You'll need to wait until you've amassed $25 in profits before you'll be allowed to claim your money, and you must do so via PayPal.)
This interesting site has a unique method of rating a writer's work, ranking all work by comparative review against the other writings within each particular category, or "title," as it is called on their site. (And I must say it is extremely rewarding to see one--or more than one--of your works reach the number one spot in its category!) Each time you post your work, as soon as you are finished posting, a screen will come up which will present you with two "articles" that have been written to the same "title" and you will be expected to rate them against one another, indicating which you like better and how much, or whether you like them both the same. Generally, several pairs of writings from within the same category will come up in a row before a new category will be presented. (Once you've tired of rating, you'll need to leave the rating screen yourself, going elsewhere on the site, since I, at least, have never seen rating end on its own.)
The interesting thing about Helium's rating system--which differs from most other writing sites--is that you can watch the ranking of your work perpetually evolve, moving either up or down as it is continuously rated by other Helium members. (You will be allowed to rate other works within the same categories in which your own work appears--and will be informed of the fact that your work appears in the category in question--but you will not, of course, be allowed to rate your own work.)
The only negative thing I would say about Helium is that, once you've posted an "article" to their site, you cannot edit or delete it, which can be fairly frustrating. Your only recourse for making changes to your work is to use one of a limited number of "leapfrogs" you are allowed, which enable you to repost a particular piece of writing after making changes to it. (And you may only "leapfrog" any "article'"once in a week's time.) Even then, your "leapfrog" will not become your "active" article unless and until other Helium members have rated it against your original article and voted it to be the better of the two. This takes a little getting used to, but once you have, your experience at Helium can be quite a positive one overall.
While payments at Helium are extremely modest, once you have enough good quality work posted to their site, you can potentially sit back, relax, and watch your profits increase without so much as lifting a finger--unless you count clicking on the "Earnings and Payments" button!
And who could complain about that!
Happy posting!
Jeanne
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While I realize it appears as if I've been neglecting to update my blog of late, what has actually occurred is that I lost a second blog post just a few days ago! Thought I'd fill my readers in so you'd understand why nothing new has been posted to my blog lately!
I lost my first post on February 4th, which I later painstakingly recreated. It's the one entitled "Calling All Poets 2! More Info About MoonTownCafe.com." My second lost post was one focusing on Helium.com. My apologies for this--as well as for the fact that I haven't yet recreated the second lost post! But, to be honest--not only is it such a daunting task to even think of redoing all that exacting and carefully researched work, but--frankly, I'm worried that it could just happen again!
So, here I sit, debating whether or not it's worth attempting to rewrite the lost post--or even write future ones--if I must worry about the possibility of having it--or them--get lost in cyberspace the minute I click "preview post." (In fact, I'm wondering whether I'll lose this post before I'm through!) What a dilemma!
Well, I guess we'll see what happens! In fact, this time, I think I'll forego clicking "preview post," hoping you'll forgive any small errors you may see in this post before I've had a chance to modify it! This way, at least I'll be able to avoid having "preview post" cause the problem! Hopefully clicking on "create post" won't cause the very same problem to occur!
Well, here goes nothing! You'll either see this--or you won't! Wonder which it will be!
Till next time,
Jeanne
Recently, I told you about four websites that accept poetry (as well as other forms of writing): AssociatedContent.com, Helium.com, Creative-Poems.com, and MoonTownCafe.com.
In an earlier post, I discussed Creative-Poems.com in greater detail--so you would have the info you need to more effectively utilize that site. Today, I'll do the same for MoonTownCafe.
MoonTownCafe is a great site, where you can post your work and receive feedback in the form of ratings (via a five-star rating system) and reviews (written by other members.) (This, of course, implies that you must join to post your poetry to the site, and this is true. However, membership is free--unless you choose premium membership. All you need to do is register to become part of the MoonTownCafe writing community.)
At MoonTownCafe, posting of your work is based on a points system, which determines how many posts you may make at any given time. All new members start out with 800 points, which are given to them at the time they join. These points are, as you might imagine, used up as poems are posted to the site.
The cost of posting one poem is 100 points for regular members or 50 points for premium (paid) members. Though points are used up when posting poems, they are also gained by reading and/or rating other members' work. This is the way your points are replenished--and you'd be surprised at how easy it is to gain back all your original points--and more!
This points system is the way MoonTownCafe encourages its members to read, rate, and review one another's work. Reading the work of another member will gain you 2 points each time if you're a basic member, or 5 points if you're a premium member. And if you rate another member's work, you'll gain 20 points (basic) or 40 (premium.) In addition, if you're the first member to rate a poem, you'll double your rating points, receiving either 20 or 40 bonus points, based on your membership type.
This system actually works quite well and is in no way cumbersome to use. Besides which, you'll have the opportunity to read a great deal of excellent work which you might normally tend to overlook!
One nice thing about this site is that you may go back and edit your poems as often as you like after posting by simply clicking on the 'edit' icon which is perpetually located above your posted works. Seeing that tiny pencil above each post is very reassuring, since there always seem to be those times when we've made a typo or a formatting error that went unnoticed prior to posting--or even, occasionally, those times when we've later thought of a change in wording that would immensely improve our poem!
Though this site offers no payment for your work, MoonTownCafe is a wonderful site where you'll have the opportunity to showcase your work to an appreciative audience of fellow poets, receive valuable feedback--as well as recognition for work well-done--and even enter periodic poetry contests.
What more could you ask of a non-paying market? Check out MoonTownCafe! I think you'll be glad you did!
Thanks for reading!
Jeanne
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Here are just a few examples of the types of articles the people at Associated Content accept for publication on their website--and pay the author for*--though they accept articles on many other subjects, as well. With the wide variety of content featured on their site, the opportunities for publication at AC are virtually endless!
[NOTE: To see a list of some of the article types Associated Content publishes, click the "Check Out My AC Content" tile below to be directed to my Content Producer page at AC, which lists all my work posted there. (I've removed the AC RSS feed, since it has not been functioning properly. My apologies!) If you check out the AC Home Page, you'll find many other topics, as well! Your choice of subject matter is limited only by your imagination and your knowledge of the topic!]
Why not join Associated Content? It's free. When you join, you'll be able to start writing immediately.
*AC generally doesn't pay for news items, poetry, or short stories (though they do publish them); nevertheless, their website is a great vehicle for your work to receive widespread internet exposure!
At this time, AC is unable to offer payment to writers outside the U.S. They will, however, publish their work. Their statement regarding this is, "We understand that PayPal facilitates international payments, but we cannot offer payment to non-citizens or non-legal residents of the United States due to the legal limitations of our Independent Contractor/License Agreement." Hopefully, this situation will change at some point in the near future! U.S. based writers must also be 18 years of age or older to receive payment for their work at AC.
UPDATE: Associated Content has just announced that, due to the success of their previous limited time offer of a payment of $5 for news stories, they have decided to continue it for the time being! Now that's good news! I'm not sure how long this payment offer will be in effect.
More info about Associated Content to come later!
Till next time,
Jeanne
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