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Congratulations, Audrabianca! I'm sure it feels great after all your hard work. You're an inspiration!

Celeste, You're the best! I took part of the afternoon off from writing and set up my spreadsheet. I tried some Apple software called Numbers that I'd never tried before, and found it to be a lot more intuitive than Excel--even making the formula for the "date submitted minus date sold" wa...

Lysis, congrats on selling your second article! Stay strong and keep rejecting the lowballers. The idea of article farming just makes me mad. Grrrr... Celeste--your words were really helpful. When I break it down that way it makes a lot of sense. Thanks! I was wondering...you mentioned you use a spr...

I had my first sale this morning! Woohoo! So, it was a 300-word article that the buyer offered $25 for full rights--lower than my asking price. But, on reviewing my pricing, I realized I'd priced a tad high, and I would still make 6 cents a word at the buyer's price (after C-C's cut). I was in a rea...

Karl--welcome to C-C! It's good to meet another newbie. Interesting that Karlonia made you a lowball offer too. After rejecting that one, I still haven't received another offer for any of my articles, but I don't regret rejecting it. In fact, I feel really good about all the work I've been putting i...

I really like the categories as one big list. As a new writer here, I was finding myself having to search for the right sub-category every single time I make a submission. This way is much easier, thanks for changing it!
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Barry, thanks so much for explaining I can sell Helium articles for usage only here! Very excited to know I was mistaken about that. Off to Helium to edit some articles and bring them up to C-C quality!

I didn't even realize it was possible to look at the hits...this is really helpful! I found how you can see it on each article individually by clicking "edit," but is there a way to see a list of all your articles with the hits instead of having to look at them one by one? And, just wonder...

I was writing for Helium also, and the most I made was $65 in the Marketplace. However, I can never sell that article again, nor any of my articles on Helium....even the ones that aren't making a penny! I never really understood the difference between full rights and usage, and now that I do, C-C is...

I sent in my vote!

I'm blanking on his name, but a very funny crotchety old poet who came to the Naropa University summer writing workshop used to say, "If you don't have a pencil, use a piece of charcoal. If you don't have a piece of charcoal, use a bloody finger."

Hey Lor, Emma and Shery, Your advice helped. I feel better about rejecting the offer now....I am worth more than $6! (RAAAWR!!!) I understand more clearly now how bylines and usage rights work, so thanks for that explanation. No more offers yet....but I will keep writing and posting and hope for the...

Hello everyone, Only a few hours after my first articles were accepted to C-C, I was absolutely thrilled to receive an offer for one of them! I was so excited! However, the client is offering only $6 for usage rights and my asking price was $20. I think I'm going to refuse it because $6 just seems s...

Celeste and Emma, thanks for the nice welcome. I've got two articles in review and am holding off on submitting a third until I know the status--what if they were all rejected at the same time and I lost my chance to submit anything else! :P In the meantime I've been browsing the forums and looking ...

Hello dear CCers, So glad to have stumbled across this website. I've been writing at Helium off and on for a few months, and although I did sell one article there the masses of highly-ranked poor writing can be...well, disheartening! I'm half-and-half American-Portuguese, now living in Nepal, with a...