The Deal Disintegrates?

To fully understand this post, it is best to read Scammed on DP's B/S/T Forum. In fact, if you started here, I am sorry. This post ends the story with the deal (apparently) terminated and the background for how I became involved. Still, if you want even more detail, see Negotiating the Deal.

Now, I have wanted to write for a living - forever. Writing has been my love for decades. It is what I do best. So, in “preparation” of my impending layoff from the local independent contractor for DHL Express USA, I took to prodding the web for information on, you guessed it, working from home - writing. Well, at Just Another Writer, I found (among so much more information elsewhere) a post on making money writing. In that post, I learned I could write about something I like, preferably a topic in demand, and sell it cheap on Digital Point’s forum. To paraphrase that old adage, I didn’t want to work high and sell cheap. But I’m just starting out. Right?

As a side note, I also found on Just Another Writer a most interesting post on making money selling your blog. So, if you're looking to cash out your blog, or if you have blog burnout, then have a look.

Well, I am just starting out marketing my skills and myself. The skills have been honed, literally, over decades. I've just not pushed the skill set into a vocation let alone a profession.

So, as I pointed out in earlier posts, I had e-mailed the wrong articles back to napoleonfirst. How did that happen? As follows:

  • I copied the zipped file, dogbasicsfornewbies_PLR, he sent me to the Documents folder then opened it.
  • I opened the first text file to edit.
  • I realized I needed a place to put the rewritten article, (I didn't want to overwrite the source file in case I had a problem or otherwise needed it for the job), so I copied the zipped file again and renamed it, dogbasicsfornewbies_PLR - Rewrite.
  • I then opened the first text file from the second copy of the zipped file and edited it.
  • Then I saved.
  • Oops. I couldn't save it in the zipped file. Dang. So, I just saved the edited text file in the Documents folder.
  • Once I'd completed all of the files (ten in all, as I am sure you are now well aware), I then zipped them into their own file.
  • Finally, I named the zipped file, dogbasicfornewbies - rewrite.

Therein lay the error. Memo to self: don't rename files I'm editing to return with too close a name to the source file. Of course, one can throw in folder for file.

So, rather than get even further into the details, I'm just going to state the immediate purpose of these posts (thirteen in all if you include the dog articles I rewrote): I wasn't paid for the work, hence "work for hire" as defined by the U.S. Copyright Office - therefore, rather than let him just have them, I'll use them myself. And that's where the idea for this blog came into existence - provide the information people need to "refresh" their own content, provide my own service in rewriting your content (whatever the reason), and to provide you with fresh content.

As it is, this whole matter has distracted me far too much and wasted way too much of my time. At least I have a lot of material to work with to help you.

A fair deal.