Just had my article rejected by Constant Content. Reason given was "Please submit in one of our accepted file formats: rtf, txt, or doc. We do not accept odt files." I had to ask in the forums to find out, as they seemed to be having problems with e-mailing some writers. Kind of relieved to know that it wasn't for grammar or writing errors.
Why is the date for this post set way in the future? When I started this post back in 2008, I wanted this post to be at the top of my blog. Since the more recent blog posts appear higher at the top, I hit on the idea of setting this blog post way in the future. (In hindsight, this was a rather inelegant solution.) What is Iakul's List ? I stumbled into online freelance writing back in 2008. Started complying a list of sites where I could get paid to write, and hence Iakul's List was created. Is Iakul's List still being updated? I used to investigate a site quite thoroughly before I was willing to put it on my list. It took a lot of time and effort, which at this point simply isn't worth my while to expend. However, I'm still unwilling to compromise on the checks I put a site through. I do still plan to update and add new sites to Iakul's List, but expect my updates to be more sporadic. Quite a number of the site descriptions are also outdated, and...
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I always advocate saving a document as the first thing you do - even before writing anything. That way you have created a file (of the right type) and when you subsequently save it, you are ready to go. It can also be helpful if something goes wrong - power failure, crashes &c - because autosave will have likely preserved most of your document.
Instead they had to spend more time and resources to send it back, have me take the letter out, submit it again and then have it reviewed again. It's definitely not the best use of resources I've ever heard of.
@ l. shepherd: I do agree that Constant Content is one the strictest, if not the strictest sites I have come across so far. But on the bright side, at least you know getting accepted by Constant Content actually means something, compared to some sites out there which will accept just anything.