There are upsides and downsides to this trend for writers looking for work.

First, the increasing demand for bloggers (or online content writers) has made more writing jobs available.  The major selling point of many “blogger jobs” is the telecommuting option most companies are offering.  Since the work is primarily a contract arrangement, companies have little choice in the matter - especially since attracting quality writers locally could be a challenge.

That said, the increasing demand for and resulting availability of blog writing jobs has resulted in some interesting problems.  Most notable is related to the simple supply and demand formula.  Suddenly, everyone is a writer.  As you and I both know, everyone is NOT a writer.  And, more to the point, everyone is not a professional writer.

The problem with “blogging” is it almost encourages bad writing with the frequency of posting, the speed of publishing, and the ubiquitous presence of “bad blogs” across the web.  Technically, a blog is just a content publishing system.  These days, however, blogging is known more as a writing style than a Content Management System.

If you are interested in pursuing blogging professionally, there may be quite a lot in it for you if you are efficient, effective, and interested in a variety of topics.  Still, my advice is to charge a rate that you deserve without selling out to your outsourced competitors.  Asking for what you’re worth may be difficult in an age of widely available third party outsourcing websites, but sticking to your guns (or your keyboard) should be a matter of principle not of economics.

Please let me know if you have any special requests for content, links, etc.  I am planning to deliver content targeted specifically for the freelance writer.  Many topics come to mind now, but we’ll see what seems popular and most valuable down the road.

For now, enjoy the writing jobs search page.  Or, for you employer types, post writing jobs as you will.