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.
I was contacted by the owner of a copywriting and copyediting company today. Which would have been nice, since I'm a freelance writer. Well, it would have been nice if that phone call had just come 5 minutes earlier today. Or 5 minutes later today. However, I just so happened to be cutting through my local mall at that time, while en route to the train station. Which just so happened to be having a hip-hop dance competition today (the mall, not the train station)
Guess where I was standing when I received the call :P
Anyway, I did manage to catch her name, and after my attempt to maintain a conversation failed miserably, I established that I would call her later.
So, I called her after 5 minutes and a couple of questions later, she asked about what type of assignments I took. I replied that I usually wrote SEO articles.
She then asked me what was SEO. (I presume her company hasn't taken online assignments before, though she didn't directly state that, so I might have been g…
Guess where I was standing when I received the call :P
Anyway, I did manage to catch her name, and after my attempt to maintain a conversation failed miserably, I established that I would call her later.
So, I called her after 5 minutes and a couple of questions later, she asked about what type of assignments I took. I replied that I usually wrote SEO articles.
She then asked me what was SEO. (I presume her company hasn't taken online assignments before, though she didn't directly state that, so I might have been g…
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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.