When Good Enough is Good Enough: Part 2

Earlier, I broke down how to determine the approximate rate at which you need to write articles online in order to make your desired hourly wage. I used this formula:

Rate / Price = Quantity

Let's stick with our prior example of a contract worth $100 that involves writing 50 articles of 250 words each. As we figured out last time, that means you'll need to complete an article every 7.5 minutes, which comes out to something like 31 and a quarter words per minute. According to typingtest.com, the average typist can write something like 36 words every minute, this shouldn't be much of a problem for most people.

In fact, the average typist will be able to snake just into 15$ each hour with a contract like this.

However: that will leave exactly zero time for editing each article. Assuming that you read at about my average pace, it will take you something like 40 seconds just to reread your completed 250 word article. I'd hazard a guess that it would take something like five minutes to topically edit 250 words, which means you're looking at 14.5 minutes per article at an average typing speed.

This means that even topically editing your articles will cut your hourly rate in half - and this applies pretty much no matter what your typing speed is.

Unfortunately, this means that editing your articles to any level of perfection will directly impact how much money you are capable of generating.

Most of us are aware that, as writers, we are nothing without a reputation, and that reputation depends on writing and editing well. However, there's a pretty good chance that your name won't be on the final, web-published product. It is at this point in which you need to determine, for you as an individual, when good enough is good enough.