This article has been months in the making I started it about three months ago then took a long much-needed break from a lot of internet interaction. When I started out on Fiverr I set my price to compete with the foreign writers thinking that is what I needed to do. Last year I decided to up my price to the low-end range of semi-professional. Over the course of the year, I allowed myself to be talked back into the lower per word price. At the end that was not the correct move for my business. When I start a project everything begins on paper I write out the characters who they are what is their motivation and where they are going in the story. I then break the scenes into chunks of words that are plotted out. I at no point use plot lines which is common in the write for hire business. A six thousand word story takes me on average 10 hours to plot out write and do a basic edit. This article started because a man contacted me about writing his novella. He wanted me to justify my cost which I had already cut him a break on. At the end like so many other internet interactions, I wasted hours trying to make his sale. 

The new year is bringing major changes to who I am as an author and businesswoman. I will continue to offer to write for hire but no longer will I make short deadlines. Writing is an in-depth process that requires more input than output. People are coming to me because they are unable to do what my hard work, talent, and a bit of luck have given me. This year is about my projects that I want to complete. I have several novels I am working on. I have a couple of non-fiction that I have tons of research but nothing planned out for. There is also my erotica that I need to start publishing every week. The write for hire needs to make me at least what my erotica brings in per month. I try to be fair to everyone at no point have I ever wanted to take advantage of another person. In the world of internet interactions it is easy to get drugs into the need money now take what you can get mentality. There are points in our lives when that is necessary. I feel my talent has taken me beyond that point and into a new adventure. 

If you have a story idea I would greatly enjoy talking with you about it. Your story will start from a blank page with your characters being built from how you envision them. It may take me a month or more to do a story correctly this is something you don’t want to rush through. A rushed story or article tends to not live up to my own expectations. Cheap is not good and good is not cheap. I set my price off the project, how much I am given and how much work goes in before I ever put my fingers to the keyboard.