RE: Writing vs Shareware

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of albartell
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:04 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Writing vs Shareware

As long as you never ever work out what the hourly rate is!!

Then the pay
can look really really bad!

I did that once. On some articles (the ones with a lot of code) I would
have made more money flipping burgers at McDonalds. I have one coming out
in SystemiNetwork's Sept edition where I wrote a whole bunch of
code showing
three different ways a Java thick client could interact with RPG on the
server side (i.e. Java Toolbox, SQL External Stored Procs, and XML web
services). Had a ton of fun doing it and learned a lot - which is how I
chalk up most of my writing. Probably spent more than 20 hours
putting all
that together... anyways, I digress.

It is nice to know I am not the only writer that feels underpaid! Maybe I
could re-purpose it as a session at a conference in Minneapolis this fall
<hint><hint> :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

LOL! That's kinda why I don't write that much any more (just working on
another training manual now, that is about it..)

It is fun, but pay stinks. You'd think with how much they charge vendors
for advertising they could afford to pay us writers (or is it "we
writers"... ahh.. that's what editors are for...) a little better.. :)

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com