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My first writing

many years ago

By ASHLEY SMITHPublished 9 months ago 2 min read
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start with what you know

My first time writing with a hope of payment or earning reads was on a website much like this called helium. You wrote for different subjects, earned from read and entered competitions. From this site I did a few writing jobs for various websites and personal hires. At the time I was happy to earn enough to pay for the monthly internet bill.

As I had wanted to write but wasn't sure how I read up on tips and hints. One was to write about what you know, it makes sense as makes the process simpler. So my first things written was for the health and education part of the helium site, from there not only could you earn from reads but companies can buy the work from you.

Both my children are disabled, both are autistic with a number of other conditions and symptoms so I wrote about that. Tips on education, health, relationships and parent hood relating to disability. This helped get some reads and a few pence earned from reading numbers. It helped to know something about the subject , also any research that was needed was also of benefit for me.

I went on to write pieces for the site on anything that seemed interesting, any subject. This was good for me as again I had to do some research and learn new things or more about things I already knew. Hopefully if my writing was any good maybe others learned a bit.

For the private hire I was in contact with a go between. She accepted work requests and then hired writers like me to do the work. Most of mine was for various websites , Having to write multiple versions of the same information. This was used in the websites and in advertising.

The subjects varied from acid etching concrete drive ways to porn sites. There was also a glamour site for famous women, tattoo for chests and tribal tattoo designs. Everyone starts somewhere and this is where I started, many moons ago.

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About the Creator

ASHLEY SMITH

England based carer, live with my wife, her parents and 4 cats. will write for all areas but especially mental health and disability. though as stuff for filthy seems popular will try there . any comments, suggestions or requests considered

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  • Jay Kantor8 months ago

    Ashley - I'm enjoying your "original" writing style: Ah, yes we are always searching for just the right topics. As a retired highly scrutinized legal biz writer - I've morphed into a self described 'Goof-Writer' - nothing more. btw; I learned to type on one of these/along with a roll of 'Correction Tape' Nice to virtually meet you  Jay

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