Review of Freelance Website Authorr

Are you curious about the website, Authorr? Well, here is an honest review about the website. I signed up earlier in the week and set my rate. The company recommended that I set my rate at a lower price, which reminded me of other freelance websites. I set my low rate and after receiving my topic, I sent my unpaid sample. The topic was easy to write on and was only 400 words. However, the word count did make it a little difficult. I usually get a word count and am able to go over the word count. This was why it was so difficult: my piece had to exactly 400 words, it could not go over the word count or be less than the word count. I got a timer, which is at the bottom of the page. It took me a little over an hour to write the piece. The timer was good but bad. I am not fond of being timed but it was nice to see how long it took me to write a basic 400 word article.

After they accepted my piece, I decided to start another short article. After I logged in, I saw that there were ten available articles and I chose one about using money wisely. I had to play around with my words to make it exactly 400 words. I wrote it and submitted it. I then checked the website to see if there are any other articles I could write. The list of available articles went from ten to one. The website does send emails to tell me when there are articles available to write, which I think is great. I do not have to log on every hour or so to check the website. The next day I got an email telling me I needed to edit my article because I did not follow one of the rules. This rule was to write the piece in third, not second person. I noticed this rule after I submitted it.

If I had to rate the website from a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being terrible to 10 being a terrific website, I would give it an 8.

Why the website got an 8:

• My article was not overly complicated to write
• The article received an easy to fix edit
• There were not any articles to claim after two hours
• The pay was lower than expected

The Beginning of Freelancing

I started writing as a freelancer after I graduated from college. I wrote first for oDesk, which I do not recommend. Even though the company was easy to use, the prices were very low and there were too many people bidding for mediocre jobs. Also, some of the editors for these jobs were very picky with what they like and did not like about my writing. It was also difficult to contact some of the clients who posted job openings on oDesk. One job I got I later had to quit because I could not contact the client. It started off great, I had a good price and the work did not seem difficult. I spoke with Jan over Skype and she told me everything I had to do. *Jan told me to email her in a few weeks so I could start working. I waited and then emailed her. I did not get a response, so I tried contacting her again a couple of weeks later.

She finally got back to me and told me that she was very busy. This was her side job and her other job had gotten in the way. Jan said she would email me when her schedule cleared up so we could get started. However, after a while she did not email me and I was starting to think she would never get back to me. After waiting about two months, I went into my oDesk account and stopped the job. Yes, oDesk lets you keep jobs that you accepted open until you close them. I told the women why I was stopping the job and have not heard any thing since then. I also found other decent clients who later dropped me because my work did not fit their standards. Unfortunately, I recently got an email saying oDesk closed my account due to negative comments left by clients I wrote for. I was upset but happy about this email. I have not found any decent work on oDesk and actually have not visited the site in at least a month. I tried to find out if I could get my account back and learned that once oDesk closed the account, there was nothing I could do. Oh well. I knew there would be another writing opportunity soon. 

*Name changed to protect identity