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My Career as a Content Mill Writer
When I tell people I’m a freelance writer, they’re often confused about what I do all day. How do I find work? Do I spend a lot of time pitching and calling clients? As a freelancer, I must never get a break from my desk, right?
Not really.
The reason I chose freelance writing as my career is that it allows me to work flexible, part-time hours. Currently, I work weekdays 9am-12pm. After work, I run, shower, stretch, eat lunch, and then read or write creatively in the afternoon.
Rather than being a true freelancer, pitching publications and cold-calling businesses, I get all my writing assignments from websites called content mills.
How Do Content Mills Work?
Content mills hire freelance writers — which usually means anyone who can produce a high-quality writing sample. Companies that need content (blog posts, press releases, product descriptions, etc) post assignments on the site for writers to claim and complete.
This is how content mills supply content to companies and work to writers:
- Clients sign up to the content mill and give details about the content they want.
- Each request for a single article/blog post/production description/etc is listed as a job on the content mill website.