How does the future of freelance writing looks like?

With "all these" scams loitering around, the future of freelance writing could be jeopardized. As time goes by, both writers and customers are loosing trust in custom writing companies and writers. How would this trend shape the future of online freelance writing? Think about a possible pragmatic solution to the predicament.

as long as there are students there will always be freelance writing

You could reduce the "number of" (random quotation marks are fun!) scams by leaving the industry, Herpesbreakout.

As long as there is money to be made from scamming, people like you are going to try to make money from it. The only way to stop the problem is to educate consumers so they stop giving you and your ilk money in the first place, but with new students seeking out services every year this is impossible.

Of course, you already know this--you count on it to stay in business.

The future would be more frustrating for the scamming individuals because today there is much more information on writing (and other) scams than ever. The golden period for scams was around the beginning of this century.

As always, the most competitive and legit writers, as well as, legit writing companies shall succeed.

But hopefully not, illegitimate, commas.

Why do you always distort my views? The point is simple and straightforward despite the fact that I have mistakenly added a comma. Please do not comment again on minor mistakes. I hope this message is clear.

You do that all on your own.


Two commas, actually.


Please stop working as a writer in this industry until you can stop making them.

Shut the hell up, housefly as usual. I do not need your advice and I will not need any advice from you now and in the future. I also will not stop writing. Therefore, you can file a lawsuit against me if indeed your advice has any impact. I also hope this message is clear. Nonsense!


Idiot. When I call you an idiot you wouldn't understand. This is not an English class.

Warning: if you try to respond to my last two posts, I will hurl more insults at you!

:)

Huh? I can't sue you for being a crappy writer. Your customers could sue you for failing to deliver advertised services, but I'm guessing most of your customers don't live in Kenya so it would be hard to come after you.


Oh, no! Not more insults! Whatever shall I do?

I guess your ahole has a problem. Seek medical attention before it explodes. You also seem to suffer from a mental problem. Keep on lying to forum members, housefly. But that won't help you neither will it help anyone here. Anyway, you can call me a "crappy" writer. After all, who cares except your stinking ******* that currently needs immediate medical attention.

What proof do you have against me, Phyleeks?


Twig, never mind Pheelyks, he is always attacking on members instead of joining the discussion board. As usual, he has nothing constructive to add in this forum.


I can't believe you can also make such unfledged remarks. Actually, I have always known you to be one of the no nonsense folks we have around. But now I know better.

All of your posts claiming to be an excellent writer. They're proof that you lie about your capabilities.

Peelky -- take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes.

You never gonna be a good writer. Good rewriter maybe, but not original research writer.

How does the future of freelance writing looks like? <-- like that

What does the future of academic freelance writing look like? I think that the writing companies will find themselves irrelevant in the coming days, months, and near future years because the students and other writing services users are already conscious of their criminal nature when it comes to doing business. This will force the companies to eventually go out of business or change their business model. As for the writers, well, the freelance writers will never find themselves out of work.

Independent writers are already showing that as free agents, they have the ability to direct the future of their profession. Mostly by signing up for middle man company services such as Cragislist and UpWork, or other "freelance" bidding sites where they can dictate their prices and work directly with clients for the production of a smoother written end product. Students and other writing service users also find that it is easier to communicate with the writers directly instead of passing through the client support services of the writing companies. So they frequent the bidding sites more and more also.

Some writers may even opt out of the bidding services arena and simply go on as freelance writers who rely on word of mouth advertising for their jobs or forum participation (as is done here) to promote their services and gain new clients to hep grow their already existing client base.

Whatever way the freelance writers choose to continue with their work, the future of freelance writing is bright, promising, and hopeful. Writers can easily change with the times while writing companies cannot. That is why the writing companies are facing a bleak future with the end of their companies existence almost in sight.

I'm with @WriteReview on this. The future of freelance writing has never been brighter. A large percentage of today's companies outsource writing needs to freelancers, whether on-site or remotely. However, I don't know that the future of the combination of freelancers within the academic writing industry and middle agents (i.e. UpWork, etc.) is as bright. While the combination works for some freelancers, the costs of fees (memberships and/or a cut of project costs) and risks of losing when customers complain (and we all know those customers who complain about everything, want a discount on everything, demand a partial or full refund for the slightest issue, etc.). That's just my view on it, and I'm certainly not saying it's the consensus. Indie writers have more flexibility on all aspects of each project from pricing to TOS, including revision and refund policies.

I am sure the OP was referring the the academic freelance writer who contracts with an essay company. Now, that, on the other hand, is at risk because of the growing number of questionable essay services companies. For the companies (while few) that have a long-term established presence, I don't feel their respective positions are at risk as long as they continue to provide quality services, which includes both the end project AND customer service. One without the other is a marriage for failure. That said, customers simply are not going to get quality and integrity with most essay companies. The same can be said of many of the freelancers those companies hire. For example, the majority of writers with these companies take a project regardless of his/her qualifications or ability to provide a quality paper. They don't care about the customer because they know their job pool is constant (i.e. the companies' flow of new, unsuspecting customers). While they will lose a customer after they see the quality, there is another waiting in the wings. It's a sad cycle that hurts companies that do work hard to provide high quality. It hurts the indie writers in some ways, but not at the same level.

Overall, the future of freelance writing itself is secure... contracting with a third party, not so much!

After the lockdown, I found my company having to go deeper into the professional writing field and less into the academic writing field. My writers work from home mostly, and so do I. During the course of the work from home time, I found that companies were still urgently hiring independent writers or outsourcing their writing needs. The income was mostly normal for my writers who could work with businesses and were writing professionals in the true sense of the word. My writers who focused only on academic writing, they've been finding it difficult to come across academic writing jobs lately. I am advising them to diversify their writing skills as soon as they can.

I believe that the academic writing field will find itself seriously impacted by the academic lock-down and home schooling situation. Since the kids are just as scared as their parents to venture out, they spend most of their time at home, using social media to keep in touch with their friends, they have free time now to actually work on the paper themselves.

That, is the problem with the academic writing focus. Once the students have too much time on their hands, once they don't have parties to attend and part time work to go to, they begin to turn towards actually working on their own papers. Much to the detriment of the academic writers. If the writer cannot write for any other avenue, then he is pretty much out of a job, in the meantime.

I like the optimism that this thread contained when it was first started. We all had high hopes for the continuous growth and development of the academic writing field. All the while not knowing that there was a technology that was being developed that would be an academic writing career and company killer. Had AI not become the juggernaut that it is now when it comes to academic writing, we would all still be discussing how to develop our writing skills, helping student spot the fake writers and companies, and basically, just doing out best to improve our expertise in the evolving academic world. Now, we are fighting to survive in the business and hoping that the students will eventually come back to the human writers for their writing needs.

Today, it's no longer just the outright scams referenced by the OP back in 2011 that customers have to worry about. Even companies that were always legit now end up providing terrible AI-generated essays as often as not, simply because they can't trust their own writers not to use AI. Unlike plagiarism, AI writing can't be definitively identified by any of the kinds of scanners that essay companies used to keep their own writers honest when plagiarism and writers poaching customers were their main concerns.