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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 3370576, member: 534"] I supported myself and my family as a writer for 15 years, and it was a substantial supplement to my income for another 20 or so. I backed away from it when health issues and especially the cost of being self-employed with health issues ate up my savings and forced and me to get a steady job. I always figured I'd go back to it when I retired. But in the meantime, the market has changed so much that I don't see the point in doing it. What used to be a $1200 a pop regular market for me is now mostly written in house, and the infrequent freelance piece in the same mag now pays about $200. Others that were $500 to $1000 a pop mostly aren't even in the print pub business any longer, or if they are, they don't want a 1000 word article any more. 500 words and a bunch of product placement pics is it, and they'll pay "up to $50" for it. I wonder how any print pubs are surviving, even paying those kind of rates. The action is now online, and there are too many guys willing to do it for exposure, and the opportunity to plug their "sponsors". You don't have to be able to actually write, and you don't need to do any research. Take some pics, maybe shoot a little video clip to go with it, and regurgitate the same thing everyone else is writing. [/QUOTE]