Iakul's Freelance Writing Musings

Just published an article on on Triond about the options available to writers who get their content plagiarised. Was inspired to write it after reading a topic started by Spike over at MyLot about a website that he discovered had been plagiarising his articles, and apparently articles by a few other writers as well. Here's the link to the article for those of you who are interested http://writinghood.com/online-writing/what-to-do-when-your-article-gets-plagiarised/

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 ...